If MS switches to GDDR5 now, did Sony make a silly mistake?

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Soleron said:
I'm seeing a misconception here that GDDR5 > DDR3. It's a tradeoff. GDDR5 has much higher latency in return for faster bandwidth. The choice was no doubt made to support the on-die GPU but this isn't necessarily good for the CPU.

Try having gaming and video applications run in standard DDR then. There's a reason PS3, X360, Wii-U, Wii, GC, PS2 etc. didn't do it.

It's not a tradeoff when one product is so much better than the other except for one characteristic, much like we can agree plasma and LCD is better than cathode ray displays. You are playing the overwhelming exception fallacy right there.