XBONE having problems with eSRAM yield. Crazy Buttocks confirms.

[kitler53]

DirtyP2002 said:

kitler53 said:
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i was going to rebuttle with that but you beat me too it.  downclocking now would really fuck up all the games currently in developement and limit future potential (without cloud assist which if I were MS I wouldn't rely on after the always online fallout).

 

also, it's just a little air-born..

wait wait wait... you can fix that with a more expensive chipset?

if you downclock the initial shippments to achieve better yeilds you can't really fix that later.  unless MS is prepared to go the route of multi-spec consoles every xbone console will be down-speced for the entire generation.

if you stick to your orignal spec and the yeilds are currently low the intial shipments will have expensive chipsets (~chip cost = (wafer cost)/((chips per waffer)*(yeild%)) ) and probably lower stock at launch.  that cost will quickly come down in price when the yeild issues are figured out in what i'll assume is a few months time.

..or you delay until 2014.

 

I think those are the three options if the rumor is true.