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Jadedx on 22 April 2013
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outlawauron said:
Adinnieken said:
outlawauron said:
Whether or not always-on sticks is something, but there's no way all of the rumors would have circulated if MS hadn't considered it at one point.

Both PS4 and Xbox 8 will be "always on".  Always On has to do with a low power state.  It means the device never shutsdown completely.  It always operating in some capacity.  Most likely to decrease the boot time, but also to allow the device to respond proactively to input.

Well yes, there's that. What most people refer to is "always-on DRM", meaning you have to be connected to the internet at all times in order to play any games (regardless if they use the internet or not).

Always on has meant the same thing since the original roadmap leak, low powered state, can always be connected. The only reason this rumor persists is because the devkits have always online drm due to security measures. Which we only know because superdae hacked ms and stole a devkit.

 

Also this rumor is crap. The nextbox would be superhard to program for since you have 4 different chips to program for; 2 different gpus and 2 different cpus. Also this would not give the console all that much power since the xbox 360 has a total flop count of 355.2 gigaflops.

I do however believe the dual apu rumor. I imagine the system will have a large soc with both apus and a modified amd jaguar that can enter a low power state and an xbox 360 soc for bc. Also I do not believe that they will still be using ddr3, especially since they joined hmc and it has been finalized and ready for production. That set up would give them lots of power, low power usage, low heat, and low cost. Those are all the things MS wants from the next xbox according to the yukon roadmap and the superdae leak.