| thismeintiel said: 1) MS is not in the position where they should be upsetting devs. They're going to need all the support they can get. And devs can choose not to support them, just like some stayed away from the XBO until they changed their indie policies. 2) There were no leaks that stated that the PS4 was less powerful. Sony announced 8GB months earlier than anyone knew concrete XBO specs. It's pretty obvious MS got caught with their pants down, because they still had "XBO" demos running on HW at E3 that didn't match the final specs. And the camera was not coming bundled for PS4. You can spout whatever you wish to believe, but that doesn't make it fact. 3) If MS knows what the PS5 is going to have, then there's no need for secrecy. They should already have more powerful devkits in all the devs hands. Just like Warren, you're just spreading damage control and wishful thinking in order to ignore that MS is obviously behind. |
1) Devs are not the ones that make the calls, devs need the consoles to sell there products and with Xboxe's Xcloud, GamePass, Azure and Windows eco system, it will be there loss to skip out on what could be a huge lost opportunity to sell there products. This happens almost every gen with Nintendo where 3rd party companies struggle with Nintendo's policies and newer innovations yet guess what, they still flock to what sells hot. If Xbox is huge next gen, devs will bite the bullet to release there games on it. Besides, you are making a bigger deal out of this than you should. We are talking about hidden specs, not some forced innovation or policy that devs have to be forced to use. Its just that games wont be as optimised at launch due to the unknown specs.
2) PS4 was going to be a 4gig system, the X1 was always going to be an 8gig system. You don't think that has any weight on Sony switching to 8gigs GDDR5? That would have bottlenecked the PS4 hard if Sony stayed with the 4gigs while the X1 uses 8gigs of ram.
3) Why would MS allow Sony to see there specs? So Sony can switch up and change? MS are not that stupid. You will get the full specs on Scarlett the moment its too late into development for Sony to switch up. If MS didn't care about what specs they are using next gen than they would announce it but they seem focus in making sure Scarlett has a power edge. Its called the waiting game and we will wait and see.
