drkohler said:
I intentionally cut out the second part because it makes the whole statement even more ridiculous. Fact is, MS went with high speed ddr3 ram (2166MHz, not the cheaper and less power hungry 1600MHz ram). Obviously they thought they would need the hotter ram/higher bandwidth. And adding the esram obviously increases power consumption further... Just read the data sheets. The memory in the PS4 uses LESS power than the memory in the XBox One. Had Sony gone with 4G of ram only, maybe the equation would be the other way round (didn't check, too lazy and it doesn't matter anyways). And what do you mean by "couldnt be used for awhile due to heat"? What I would be more interested in is knowing whether the PS4 saved the state of the machine (eg you can continue playing the game where you sort of "left") before shutting down or whether it was an emergency shutdown (like on overheating pc graphics cards). |
These are custom designed boxes. Completely different.
Id rather trust an engineer of said product.
But look, every single event has every single type of console in a glass box. Xbox One, Ps2, Ps3, Xbox 360 etc etc.
Something happened to this PS4 heat or otherwise. Being in a glass box isnt unusual to PS4 at these events.
Bottom line is. I hope the early adopters are fine.