Xbox One vs PS4: ESRAM slower than GDDR5, It's Bottleneck"

[binary solo]

walsufnir said:

binary solo said:
Without ESRAM Xb one would be at an awful disadvantage compared to PS4. With it Xb one is more comparable, but still disadvantaged.

Sure it is. MS decided for DD3 many months ago and figured out that DDR3 is too slow so they implemented ESRAM. If it helps (it sure does) than it was a decision which was tested thoroughly before with a lot of tests. The PS4 is just better with GDDR5 in such an amount but this doesn't mean MS made a bad decision at all.

The difference between a bad decision and a good decision is time and information (incl. information about what the competiton is doing). Probably for 99% of the Xb one development DDR3 was a good decision. And it's basically impossible to change something like that with only 1% of development left. To switch to GDDR5 late in the development would have meant Xb one not launching until 2014. I wouldn't be surprised if MS sat down and weighed up delay+GDDR5 vs. 2013 launch+DDR3+ESRAM. On any given gaming forum you'd never get 100% agreement on which decision MS should have made between those, there are clearly pros and cons with both. If MS did actually think about delaying Xb one in order to put in GDDR5 but decided against it I think they made the right call. Missing holiday 2013 and giving PS4 a 6 month+ head start would have been a disaster for Xb one. As it is only launching in 13 countries before 2014 is permanently putting Xb one on the back foot in all those markets that are yet to launch.