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When the original Xbox was released (2001), its specs were comparable to a low-end PC of the time, but with a somewhat better GPU.

Good write up (along with the rest of their articles) on the X-Box architecture.

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox/

I had talked to a dev who worked on one of the Fable games and he mentioned that he was only alloted x amount of the total memory available on the 360 which surprised me, since I was primarily a PC gamer I didnt think about how little memory the console had.

Fun reminder that we got to the moon on significantly less memory.

They could've implemented their own virtual memory and paged it to disk. Very easy to do. That's what we had to do to load 64mb ROMs when creating an n64 emulator for Xbox.

Sure, but deadlines. And game hacks are fun!

And also… Bethesda

I read it was a memory leak