What game servers ? Have you looked into qwen3.5 9b ? Gemma e4b ? There is plenty of new small models after yours. There is r/lowendlocalai, a community of people with low computing resources but it is in reddit.

MiniCPM5 may be good.

I guess you could wait until it is cracked. But by then, I think it is best to use a old pc.

You say also if RAM can be upgraded. Consoles are not like PCs in terms of customizations. Only the old ones that have been cracked. You can’t.

But your enthusiasm is there. That’s cool.