"April's next Xbox announcement "pushed back a month"

[drkohler]

BenVTrigger said:

eFKac said:

BenVTrigger said:
They've added power to the box

I guarantee it

Well I don't know if it would be that good. Changing specs in the last second may frustrate 3rd parties and another RROD debacle is in the air.

1.  Adding power wouldnt piss off developers, in fact they would love it.  They can add power without changing the fundamental architecture

2.  It wouldnt be "last minute" as any hardware couldve been in development for months and theres still nearly a year before console release

MS has billions of dollars in cash.  If they want to add power they can

But they can't buy time with all their billions. Changing chips costs you six months, at least. Adding gddr, for example, means redesigning the whole addressing scheme (new cpu dies, new gpu dies, new whatever-else-is-accessing-the bus-chips), and making the sram a very expensive, almost useless feature. Adding more ram? Will sound cool, is pointless if you stand equal at 8G ram. Adding a share button? well, that's one toughie since it required very clever hardware within the PS4, so slapping on "something similar" this late will break a lot of existing things. What else can you add in power? Oh, I see, Kinect2 advertising $, lots of advertising $, and at least 15 dancing games and 67 throw-your-arms-around-mini-games?

Releasing a console this fall means going into production within the next weeks. It also means that all components have been ordered, and all contracts have been sealed. Breaking contracts now? Cool, pay a 30%-?% penalty on every component you do no longer want. You are possibly looking at a high 8digit number here..