Xbox720 clocked speed low?

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HoloDust said:

1.6 GHz!!!!!!! Confirmed than, MS is building supercomputer:

"The Blue Gene/Q processor is an 18 core chip running at 1.6 GHz with special features for fast thread context switching, quad SIMD floating point unit, 5D torus chip-to-chip network and 2 GB/s external I/O. The cores are linked by a crossbar switch at half core speed to a 32 MB eDRAM L2 cache. The L2 cache is multi-versioned and supports transactional memory and speculative execution. A Blue Gene/Q chip has two DDR3 memory controllers running at 1.33 GHz, supporting up to 16 GB RAM."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene

On the serious note, first thing that came to my mind when I read this is that (at the time) crazy rumour of 16-core 720 - so naturally I thought of PowerPC AC2 (some version of it, not necessarily 16-core):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_A2

I think the point is that both MS and Sony are trying really hard to keep the cost down because they realized that the general masses still look at price as the prime factor after looking at the business practice of Nintendo from the 7th gen. They forgot that console are toys and tried to make them into something they are not and ended up making way less profit than Nintendo did. They are learning and trying to improve on that front while keeping a reasonable amount of power for their new consoles, but seriously, don't try to sell me a video game toy that's more than 400 dollars or like 5 different SKUs to make you spend more in the future with hidden service charges, I won't fall for that shit.