| gmcmen said: The PS4 GPU is significantly more powerful and the ram is also much faster, yet they are paying more for less cause of the esram modifications, horrible decisions made, at least it show they were not trying to make a cheap console. |
Ehh, I hate the weaker direction MS went in hardware but there's way too much jumping to conclusions in this thread.
In the end you could argue MS built a console that average joe will never notice a graphical dfference to PS4 in, all for a cheaper cost.
The ESRAM was to allow the use of DDR3. DDR3 is MASSIVELY cheaper than GDDR5 in PS4, which is why this teardown is baloney. GDDR5 is over twice as expensive as DDR3, where this teardown shows them costing almost the exact same! Absolutely ridiculous to anybody with a cursory knowledge of computer hardware.
The difference is MS is profiting handsomely per Xbox sold, while sony is losing money, according to their own statement.
Just look at each company's profit statements for the past decade. MS is good at making money, Sony is good at losing it. PS4 and XB1 are no exception.
MS just is pricing XB1 high "because they can". If sales fall, they can rip out Kinect and sell it for 299 easily. It's a DDR3 based console, it's cheap.
Believe me, The XB1 is set up great. The ESRAM will shrink nicely, where GDDR5 will cost vastly more than DDR3 forever. Whether MS will pass those savings along to consumers, or just chose to roll in even more money for Bill Gates swimming pool of cash, is another matter.
