| BlueFalcon said: The decision to go with an 8-core 1.6ghz OoO Jaguar cores is still strange to me. Why would anyone go with 8 slow cores at such low clock speeds when a 65W Trinity APU is going to destroy this CPU in every performance metric? Power consumption or saving costs are likely the key drivers here. Even worse, Richland APUs are rumored to launch by March 19th.
Everything I am reading thus far about the 720 keeps pointing to MS focusing more on entertainment and media rather than gaming. The consoles seem to be moving farther and farther away from their key function and becoming more multi-media devices with a capability to play games. It almost feels like in their desire to attract casuals, they are throwing all these gimmicks like Kinect 2.0, which in the end sacrifices what the console could have been had it been made to target the hardcore gamers, as was the case in the past. I will miss those days. |
As a company can you really blame them though? They'll still have decent third party support and the broad market has much more money potential then the avid group those sacrifices may alarm the so called hardcore group but in the end this group are ever shrinking and becoming more irrelevant as time passes, the whole go all out approach in consoles against the competition is dead and now it's about a balance of being smart and catering to all.
We'll still see great games only we'll be less concerned about raw horse power.
