DirtyP2002 said:
kitler53 said:
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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.
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Would the games that are currently in development work on a downclocked console? So these titles were built with better specs in mind for 2 or more years now.
They can't just change the specs 3-4 months before the game needs to be gold, can they?
IF this rumor is true, MS will probably have to invest in better chips then.
Problem solved.
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um.. i don't really know with the facts i have.
if things are truely as scalable as they industry would like to say they are then i suppose it wouldn't be too bad. if they had 6-12 months heads up it would probably be just fine. with 3-4 months notice it probably would cause delays. even if the dev work is nothing the QA/testing work would probaly push things back.
alternatively, the rumor started a long time ago so maybe MS gave developers lower target specs in hopes they could raise them later. ..kind of like how killzone:SF was built with 4Gb of ram in mind and then sony announced 8Gb. if that was the case there wouldn't be any game delays. there have been developer statements to the gist that xbone is noticably lower speced than ps4 so this is a real posibility, imo.
