richardhutnik on 12 September 2013
| BaldrSkies said: The problems with these articles, is that they assume the PS4 was designed by a group of monkeys hammering with rocks and duct-taping parts together, and the XB1 was diamond-laser assembled by a crack team of Einstein level geniuses. The reality is both devices were designed by very capable engineers, but one group just happened to choose some more powerful components for gaming, and the other group focused efforts on integrating certain aspects more than others (TV, Football, Kinect). There's no secret sauce or miracles involved here. Just divergent design decisions and directions. |
Sony got lucky that GDDR5 turned out the way it did, when they decided to go with it. They were able to match the ONE as far as amount of RAM and have memory that was integrated. Microsoft arguably guessed wrong (heck Nintendo did the same also in guessing with the Wii U) and have systems with split memory and the add on extra RAM.
It is a case of sometimes getting lucky. And Microsoft, to me, looks like the ones run by monkeys by how they came into E3 and did something on par with "flip crab for maximum damage, "Riiiidge Racer" and "$599!".
