So to their eyes Xbox1 failed already

Its a rumour based on truth probably

Its normal to get dev feedback in the design phase.

However that will have been a year ago. The console will already be in pre production. Any change like this would cause a delay past Q4.

The specs are almost certainly locked !

This rumor should be taken with a grain of salt, having said this though, I'd say that if there are any supposed spec bump it would only be for the dev kits.

Dev kits usually always have more ram along with slightly beefed GPU/CPU in order to run the games profilers, dev environment and other tools on the kit with out taking away any performance from the dev kits that the end consumer Xbox one would actually have.

So the xbox one game will operate with the 8GB of ram, 1.2TF GPU, and 1.6GHz CPU just for games and the units OS, While the Dev kit will operate with 12GB of ram, lets say 1.5TF GPU, and lets ay 2GHz CPU, but of course not only will the dev kit have to run the game, and the units OS (to ensure 100% simulation), it also has to run the Dev environment, engine profilers, debuggers and the like.

Until more credible sources come out which don't use the xboxuncut.squarespace.com article as their source, we should all take this with a grain of salt otherwise when the Xbox one is released their will be allot of sour Xbox one fans.

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but pre production as in finalising board layouts. Testing and Certiication.

Unless times have changed they will have missed the Xmas window if they change now. 

When do MS not have a shitload of money to invest? Without their wealth built from operating systems they would have stopped being in the industry after the first Xbox. It this brute force (throw money at it) tactic that many people don't like.

On subject, I doubt they'll do this, too late and if they do, so? To the general consumer (who bought Wii over Xbox last time) power doesn't matter. It just means it's more expensive still and will make less money for MS who have to keep the price the same now.

I thought someone at Microsoft said that specs were not important due to them having the power off 'the cloud' :P xD

Most people arent thats why microsoft are panicing, oh wait you meant 'dont believe' ooooooh ;)

yeah gone are the days you could turn any ps3 positive into a 'sony financial loses' negative too right? way to be a hypocrit.

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-Mr Khan

It won't happen cause 12 GB would have to be triple channel memory on 256-bit bus. Just from that you can say that so called rumor has no credibility. No one put tri channel set up in a console, for numerous reasons, it would have to be 16 GB or nothing. Also a downclock is actually more likely given there issues with yields in production, that is a rumour widespread and backed up by many reliable sources, not the overclock.

No it doesn't.
For example with a PC you can run a 2Gb stick of Ram and a 4Gb stick of Ram in tandem for a total of 6Gb, it's still Dual-Channel, of course you do have a minor performance penalty once you exceed 4gb as information isn't being accessed in tandem from both modules.