| kitler53 said: 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. |
thats what I was thinking too. I would rather them release this year with limited supply than to down clock anyhting or to wait another year.
