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

[Meatloaf]

I think both companies just guess at the other companies specs with a $400 budget. It didn't help that Sony put their dev boxes out with 4Gb of DDR3 memory. I would assume that MS guessed that at worst case scenario sony would bump to 8Gb DDr3. MS could have anticipated that as worst case scenario and topped it with ESram to give XBOX one the slight edge. And it would have been, and would have tipped the scales in the opposite direction. But then Sony not only jumped from 4GB to 8GB, they bought a faster ram. I think the dev boxes actually fooled MS and all developers, as they spent a year developing games for the ps4 using 4GB DDR3. All the 3rd party dev found out at the ps4 launch lol the same as the whole world. This kept Sonys big secret