Rumor - Microsoft may increase RAM to 12 GB and GPU clock increase to Xbox One

[Salnax]

Miguel_Zorro said:

Salnax said:

Except the increments are usually lower than 16. The PSOne had 3.5 MB of RAM, including VRAM and the half a meg devoted to sound. PS2 had 38 MB including sound and video RAM. And, of course the PS3 has 512 and the PS4 has 8 GB. But that's a 11-fold increase followed by a 13 fold increase followed by a 16 fold increase. The regular RAM increase is going up, to the extent where I fully expect the PS4 to have at least 150 GB of RAM.

Besides, people generally agree that the PS3 was too technologically ahead of its time to be profitable at launch. You'd think Sony would show an iota of restrant, maybe making the mediumn console again like back in the PS3 era. Instead, they are once again the most powerful machine. And sure, for $400, that's a good deal for customers. But imagine what a 4 GB RAM PS4 would be like, selling at $300 and still overwhelming the Wii U while not being much wearker than the far more expensive One.

You think they could lower the price by $100 by dropping the RAM from 8GB to 4GB? 

The RAM isn't costing them that much in total.

I was thinking more than just RAM. There are all sorts of ways the PS4's price could have been cut even further whil still being comprable to the One. A less impressive GPU, DDR3 RAM instead of GDDR5, an option with a hard drive of "only" 200 GB, etc. That could have made the system's price on par with that of the Wii U's while being comprable technically to the far more expensive One.