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Nintendo are screwed if true, im not the biggest Nintendo fan but i still want them around. I doubt they would ever go third party.



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Fei-Hung said:

So with the rumours today hinting at a probable Xbox2 in 2017 it would mean that both Sony and MS will be releasing new hardware that will be give a performance upgrade. Putting the backlash and rage aside of new consoles within 3yrs of launch, what are your predictions on performance and cost?

 

The PS4 Neo sounds like a minor upgrade compared to Xbox2, which sounds like a full blown console. If true, how will people feel about a full blown successor 3 and a bit years into this generation? 

 

If it is a full blown upgrade, I can imagine the cost being around $499-549 considering Neo most people are assuming to come out around $399-449. 

 

More importantly, whether a full blown or whether Neo or Xbox2 are just minor upgrades, it might put Nintendo in a really bad position. They will have released another console that might be dated at launch and depending on cost, it could spell huge problems for Nintendo. 

The New XBox will never be a full blown console, it can't happen for obvious reasons. It's too early, it would cost too much, and all the owners of the previous model would be really disappointed, cause Games on the New Hardware would look too much better; it doesn't work; both Sony and MS will release a new Hardware with around 2/2.5X the raw power of the previous model, trying to keep the price very competitive.

Sorry to say that, but your post is completely broken.



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Ruler said:
malistix1985 said:
If all rumours are true I will stick with PS4 as long as games run, wait what the PS5 is like and buy a new PC next year because 80% of the games are just best on PC and there are some good exclusives on Playstation platforms, justified the PS4 for me.

If microsoft releases all their games on pc, GREAT i had a xbox360 for playing gear, halo etc, if i dont have to get a xbox one to play them, cheaper for me.

why? with this neo you can get better performance just like on PC including for PS4 exclusives 

I don't see how, the neo doesn't come close to the new Nvidia cards that are coming out, I already have a 4k monitor and a good i7 for the same price as neo I will probly have a 1070GTX, processor wise the Neo is lackluster, Ram wise also, since my pc has 16GB withoud even adding the Vram on the graphics card.

After seeing the witcher in 4k I want that with my next pc, even tough the Neo will performe better, it won't do 60fps and 4k or 120fps and 1080p, my next PC will, obviously I am willing to spent more overall, but games are cheaper on PC so I generally spent around the same.

Not saying PS4 and Neo are not good consoles, they are, I enjoy my PS4, until dawn, helldivers, alienation, uncharted, the last of us, many games I love, but for the fallouts, witchers, mafia, grand thefy auto and so forth, if you have the money PC will always play them better (its been like that since PSX) :)

 

p.s: dont forget the PC also has many exclusives, I spent more time in Total War games, Civilization, Starcraft and so forth, then anything on PS4




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Soundwave said:
Intrinsic said:
What about or how does the XB1.5 sound like a "full blown upgrade"?

Lets not get ahead of ourselves here......

I think the direction MS is trying to go is obvious. First off lets not forget that as far as consoles go, like it or not, they are in competition with PlayStation and Nintendo. They will NOT release a $500 box if the alternative from Sony costs $350/$299. No matter how powerful it is, that box will be DOA. And they don't even have to, which brings me back to my original point.

MS now more than ever realize that they had and have been dropping the ball as far as PC gaming goes. Probably over 90% of all PC gamers are using a windows OS. Thats a ridiculously large market that MS already owns but never took the initiative to tap. Until now. For MS, their focus right now is probably more about getting people off steam and onto the windows store.

And back to that XB1 upgrade thing.....How much power MS can put on a chip is limited by the original architecture they chose to go with. No matter what they do, they have to make room for the SDRAM on the chip. If they make a console without it, it would literally mean they are asking devs to develop for two Xbox platforms. That stands to do way more harm to them than any possible good. As long as MS puts in the SDRam on die, then their APU will always be less powerful cause both theirs and sonys usually have about the same footprint.

My guess is they're looking at switching to HBM2 RAM entirely. 

XBox Scoprio or whatever will probably be $399.99, I don't see them going over that, but by fall 2017 that will be possible in a $399.99 kit. 

lol here we go again in fantasy train.

no, it won't be 6TFLOPS + HMB2 + 399$

HMB2 will be releasing with Vega, not Polaris. Vega is aimed to release in 2017 and will be the new top of the line tech then. There's no way they will have good enough yeilds to price the APU (yeah because we need a processor there too right?) anywhere around the 400$ mark.

Also HMB2 would not be at all necessary for a 4-6 Tflop card, the current gtx 1080 is way ahead and it still uses DDR5X.

so let's just stop ok?



Nate4Drake said:
Fei-Hung said:

So with the rumours today hinting at a probable Xbox2 in 2017 it would mean that both Sony and MS will be releasing new hardware that will be give a performance upgrade. Putting the backlash and rage aside of new consoles within 3yrs of launch, what are your predictions on performance and cost?

 

The PS4 Neo sounds like a minor upgrade compared to Xbox2, which sounds like a full blown console. If true, how will people feel about a full blown successor 3 and a bit years into this generation? 

 

If it is a full blown upgrade, I can imagine the cost being around $499-549 considering Neo most people are assuming to come out around $399-449. 

 

More importantly, whether a full blown or whether Neo or Xbox2 are just minor upgrades, it might put Nintendo in a really bad position. They will have released another console that might be dated at launch and depending on cost, it could spell huge problems for Nintendo. 

The New XBox will never be a full blown console, it can't happen for obvious reasons. It's too early, it would cost too much, and all the owners of the previous model would be really disappointed, cause Games on the New Hardware would look too much better; it doesn't work; both Sony and MS will release a new Hardware with around 2/2.5X the raw power of the previous model, trying to keep the price very competitive.

Sorry to say that, but your post is completely broken.

My post is based on the latest rumours and asking people what they think if these rumours are true. The MS rumours have now been cited by Polygon, Kotaku and IGN and one of the people who has also heard the rumor from his credible source is Jason Shreier who usually does his research before writing articles. 

 

Even then, this thread is about deliberating if current rumours are true how things would play out, not whether these rumours are fact. 

 

Secondly, you forget the original Xbox had about a 4 year life before the 360 came along. If rumours are true, the XBox One two will be released end of next year giving it a 4 year life, same as the original Xbox. If what you say is true, how do you explain the 360s success? Additionally, unlike the 360, there is a huge possibility their next console will be backwards compatible with scalable games, meaning all games on the new system will work on the old, but will look / perform inferior. 

 

Phil himself said they won't do a half assed upgrade. If he upgrades it will be full blown, hence the rumours the new Xbox will have 5-6TF performance and support the Oculus Rift. If the oculus thing goes ahead, you will need to look at what the minimum spec for a PC is as most likely, the next Xbox will have to try and match that minimum spec. 



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JRPGfan said:
Pemalite said:

You are looking at the eSRAM wrong.
Think of it like an L4 CPU cache. - It can also be off-chip, Microsoft would be silly not to include it in a future console revision, it's benefits outweigh the cons, if it's not increasing performance, then it's reducing power consumption.

Microsoft then could upgrade the system ram to DDR4, with DDR4 now hitting 4266Mhz, Microsoft could double the bandwidth without much effort. (Barring the need for a chip respin to accomodate a newer memory controller.)
That would give the Xbox One 136GB/s of bandwidth without blowing out costs.

Still. I hope Microsoft doesn't release a new console, the Xbox One is fine the way it is, wait untill a new generation to introduce new hardware.

Good one :)

Lets go check newegg:

8gigs of DDR3 2133 = 35-40$

8gigs of DDR4 4266 = 280$

 

I know that microsoft pays a smaller cost than what consumers buy things for.

However the massive differnce in cost, is too massive to all just have been passed onto the consumer for no reason at all.

If Microsoft decide to go with bleeding edge DDR4 speeds, the price of the new Xbox One ii (one-two) would be high.

Basically Im saying you thinking it ll get DDR4 4266 speeds is wishfull thinking.

 

My guess:

DDR4 3200 = 102 GB/S memory speeds from ram.

eSRam = double up (32mb -> 64mb) 50% boost to speed here = 150 GB/s memory bandwidth.

 

This results in old Xbox One = 68 Gb/s from DDR3 + 102 Gb/s from eSram = about 170 Gb/s under optimal situations/less otherwise.

new Xbox One ii = 102 Gb/s from DDR4(3200) + 150 Gb/s from eSram = about 252 Gb/s under optimal situations/less otherwise.

 

To compaire:

PS4 Neo is rumored to have 218-220 Gb/s of memory bandwidth.

 

"I hope Microsoft doesn't release a new console, the Xbox One is fine the way it is"


Its happending.

Theres too much smoke for there not to be fire somewhere. When one of those leaked guys, has over 5 insider sources all confirming the same thing.

At this point theres no reason to suspect it isnt going to happend. Also it makes sense, MS cant just not compete against Sony with their Playstation.

If Sony does a PS4 neo and there isnt a new Xbox, things are gonna look bad.

That would put xbox in a Wii U like situation.... no one wants to be a intire gen or half gen, behinde in hardware.

Unfortunately you can't use "memory sticks" as a basis for pricing as Console manufacturers don't buy them in that form factor, but rather the individual chips themselves, plus they use manufacturing deals to get even lower pricing and cutting a middle man out (Like OCZ/Kingston/Corsair etc'.) by getting it direct from the factory.
You would also be surprised how well even moderately binned DDR4 memory can scale in clocks.

Plus console manufacturers look at things over a long term, higher price today could coincide with a lower price tomorrow... With that said, it all depends on if Microsoft does a chip respin with an updated memory controller or a new SoC design... If not and it's the same Jaguar blocks, memory controller and all, then DDR3 is likely to remain. (Although, DDR3 can run at up-to 3ghz which means 96GB/s of bandwidth on a 256bit bus, even seen some DDR3 kits hit 3.4ghz for 107GB/s.)



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I do find it a little funny that a 4 TFLOP PS4 in a few months for $399 is totally believable, but a 6 TFLOP XBox a full year later would be some how impossible, probably be $600, etc. etc. etc. lol.

No chance the XBox Scorpio is not a good deal more powerful than the Neo, I don't care what RAM they use. MS knows not having parity/superiority on third party multiplats hurt them and the XBOne's underpowered spec hurts them on VR also, Scorpio will address those issues.

Scorpio will be the most powerful console spec on the market when it launches probably by a good amount and will be upgradable from that point onwards too. 6 TFLOP for MS is about what I'd expect if Sony can do 4+ this year.

I don't see that number as terribly shocking or surprising, they're not going to release something a year later that was only going to be on par with the PS4 Neo, c'mon. It's not going to be like $500 or anything either I'd bet, the year gap will allow them to get a considerably better chip than whatever Sony will have. 

To be honest I don't think MS is as beholden to gauruntee "parity" with old XOne models either. By 2017 they'll have given the XOne a full four years of support and it'll be gaurunteed to get at least another year of releases from that point on, which would be five full years of support. It's not like XOne is the market leader or anything, they're not beholden to support it forever, 4 years of primary support + 1 year of secondary/solid support would be decent, then they could transition more over to this newer XBox2 model or whatever it's called. 



Soundwave said:

I do find it a little funny that a 4 TFLOP PS4 in a few months for $399 is totally believable, but a 6 TFLOP XBox a full year later would be some how impossible, probably be $600, etc. etc. etc. lol.

No chance the XBox Scorpio is not a good deal more powerful than the Neo, I don't care what RAM they use. MS knows not having parity/superiority on third party multiplats hurt them and the XBOne's underpowered spec hurts them on VR also, Scorpio will address those issues.

Scorpio will be the most powerful console spec on the market when it launches probably by a good amount and will be upgradable from that point onwards too. 6 TFLOP for MS is about what I'd expect if Sony can do 4+ this year.

I don't see that number as terribly shocking or surprising, they're not going to release something a year later that was only going to be on par with the PS4 Neo, c'mon. It's not going to be like $500 or anything either I'd bet, the year gap will allow them to get a considerably better chip than whatever Sony will have. 

To be honest I don't think MS is as beholden to gauruntee "parity" with old XOne models either. By 2017 they'll have given the XOne a full four years of support and it'll be gaurunteed to get at least another year of releases from that point on, which would be five full years of support. It's not like XOne is the market leader or anything, they're not beholden to support it forever, 4 years of primary support + 1 year of secondary/solid support would be decent, then they could transition more over to this newer XBox2 model or whatever it's called. 

you left out something else that I have said, the HMB2 not only would be much more expensive but also absolutely unnecessary. It's immaterial if you think 6TFLOP will be the final power output, it's all conjecture and speculation based on nothing at the moment. What's factual is that HMB2 will only come after Vega 10 and the yields on the top of the line GPU would never be sufficient to feed an assembly line of a console. The price would be too high.

for comparison sake the gtx 1070 is already 6 TFLOPs and it's still using DDR5, not HMB2 (because it would make it much pricier and overkill for the capabilities it has)



Fei-Hung said:
Nate4Drake said:

The New XBox will never be a full blown console, it can't happen for obvious reasons. It's too early, it would cost too much, and all the owners of the previous model would be really disappointed, cause Games on the New Hardware would look too much better; it doesn't work; both Sony and MS will release a new Hardware with around 2/2.5X the raw power of the previous model, trying to keep the price very competitive.

Sorry to say that, but your post is completely broken.

My post is based on the latest rumours and asking people what they think if these rumours are true. The MS rumours have now been cited by Polygon, Kotaku and IGN and one of the people who has also heard the rumor from his credible source is Jason Shreier who usually does his research before writing articles. 

 

Even then, this thread is about deliberating if current rumours are true how things would play out, not whether these rumours are fact. 

 

Secondly, you forget the original Xbox had about a 4 year life before the 360 came along. If rumours are true, the XBox One two will be released end of next year giving it a 4 year life, same as the original Xbox. If what you say is true, how do you explain the 360s success? Additionally, unlike the 360, there is a huge possibility their next console will be backwards compatible with scalable games, meaning all games on the new system will work on the old, but will look / perform inferior. 

 

Phil himself said they won't do a half assed upgrade. If he upgrades it will be full blown, hence the rumours the new Xbox will have 5-6TF performance and support the Oculus Rift. If the oculus thing goes ahead, you will need to look at what the minimum spec for a PC is as most likely, the next Xbox will have to try and match that minimum spec. 

 during the XB1 reveal MS came on and said 5 Billion transistors and all that power if the cloud thing? I know MS has not officially said anything, but I'm i inclined to believe that the ONLY way MS can put 6tf in any kinda box costing anything under $500 by next year is if that number is talking about the theoretical performance of the cpu and gpu combined.

6TF, HBM1/2, Vega architecture....... all tgese things just sound impossible. Especially when people realize we are in an industry defined by its price. If at the time the XB1+ is released the Neo is already on the market at anything under $399 (and possibly even less) then there is no way MS releases a box that costs more than $399. 

My advice to anyone looking into rumours like these; first have a $400 ceiling, then try working out what can realistically be made for under $400. That should give you a very good estimate of how much power we are talking about. 



Why is 6 TFLOPS impossible for fall 2017 but 4+ TFLOP perfectly reasonable for this September?

Magical Sonytenium materials?

If Sony is getting 4+ this fall for $399, then 5 TFLOP+ should be the minimum for MS a year from now.