First let me say that I don´t believe in this rumour, based upon the fact that there is no way Microsoft/Sony will release a machine with 2gb of RAM by early 2013 (and will probably last until 2018), no way.
This would be a nice machine, but for me, what these specs show is that consoles are starting to hit a wall when it comes to price/top hardware available. Let´s assume these are real xbox 720 specs, and the machine comes out early to mid 2013, do you consider these monster specs???
Abolutely not, and the main reason is price. Both Sony/Microsoft next generation consoles will be, more then any other generation, very limited by price. If they want to put a monster console out they will have a 1000 dolar machine.
I am starting to think that the first company to make a 250 dolar machine at launch, with low development costs (lower game prices), and 3 years later releasing an upgraded console for the same 250 will win big, because the majority of the consumer nowadays can´t spend the amount of money they would a couple of years ago, when it was actualy cheaper to game.
It is funny, because we want these next consoles to have all kinds of crazy specs, but, we also want to aford the damm console, I think we will see Nintendo and Microsoft going restrict (rational) on price, and Sony going BIG as they did with the PS3, but this time, they will focus on showing, right from the start that the console is actually "better".
The PS3 didn´t show to the consumers, in it´s first year, that it was a better console then the 360, so the consumer naturally didn´t buy the console. I think that the Vita shows that Sony still thinks that having the best hardware is the best selling point.
The true question is, will people buy a 600 dolar machine, even if it proves right away that it is the "better" console, what is the limit consumer will pay for the "better" product?
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