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SxyxS on 12 March 2013
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walsufnir said:
SxyxS said:
moores law should not allow to make one console more powerful than another as long as they are released at the same time.
it just depends on wether kinect2 is integrated or not as MS has to reduce the costs for gaming hardware because of kinect.this may have an impact and wether windows8 is integrated(this may reduce the optimasation of the console hardware)


1. Of course there can be differences but Sony and MS also aim for the same target-group so yes they won't be very big differences. But look how underpowered the Wii was in comparison to PS360. But this was intentionally :)

 

2. Kinect is something that will hit price but not performance. But please don't say Windows 8 (or whatever MS will use) will affect performance of NextBox. MS builds compilers, operating systems and dev-tools since "ever" and I think almost noone out there knows as good as they do how to build software, especially for games (DirectX, DirectCompute (TressFX, for example). Thinking this would be a disadvantage for MS is rediculous, sorry :) It wasn't the case with first Xbox, it wasn't with 360 (remember the less memory footprint they had in comparison to PS3's?) and it will not be with NextBox.

i think kinect can hit price or performance (just  depends wether ms is going to lose or gain money with the console)or both,in a kind of middle wy,therefor i think you can't exclude performance from being hit,as MS were free to choose whatever they want to adjust the console price.

Kinect may also hit performance in another way-imagine kinect to be powerful but powerhungry at the same time,being used in  a core game ,not having an own cpu,the xbox 3 must do the calculation=less power for the game.