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Machiavellian on 28 March 2013
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drkohler said:
Machiavellian said:

What would be a difference is if MS actually have a working final product running actual games at their press event instead of games running behind the scenes using a PC.  This gives more credence of what the system can do then a press event that really did not say alot.  I would love for MS to reveal the nextbox now but I can easily wait until E3.  As I have noticed, its not who starts first but who can successfuly execute their stragety that wins the day.

I think MS knows very well what their system can do and what Sony's system can do. With all the "entertainment gadgetry" within the NextBox system, they knew they needed the 8G ram to be in a comfort zone, and they also calculated that the 4G of the PS4 would not be in that comfort zone. Regardless of what is happening now at MS (nothing unusual for sure, a few months before your gadget hits the stores, everything product-wise is in autorun-mode), without a doubt they were massively caught off-guard when the PS4 ram was upped to 8G, Sony being in the same comfort zone now as MS. That is the key issue.

Sony announcing 8GB instead of 4GB of GDDR 5 ram I highly doubt this had any effect on what MS was or is doing.  This is more marketing from Sony and probably future proofing the PS4 than anything immediate.  What 8GB does that 4 doesn't is allow the PS4 to do more things probably behind the scenes then just play your game. I highly doubt that the CPU/GPU on the PS4 can effectly use that much Ram where it will make a mark difference in how the system will perform.  The specs for the PS4 was rumored way before the reveal and nothing really changed so there isn't anything there that MS didn't already know.

People keep saying that MS is scrambling to out do Sony after the reveal but there wasn't anything in the reveal that MS probably didn't already know.  The ram is a nice feature for Sony but it's not something to make MS go "Oh Shit" instead they are probably think, "Have fun utilizing all that ram with your current CPU/GPU setup".