Why don't companies ever reveal system specs?

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Soriku said:
1.- Why they don't is beyond me. They should reveal to the public exact specs to show 2.- how strong a system is and to figure out if games can be done on said system, etc. 3.- They shouldn't do any PR though. Like "X system is 6 times as powerful as Y system." They should reveal exact specs. They should reveal specs before launch.

So why don't they do it?

1.- You are talking about Nintendo here right? Because Sony and Microsoft have all of the specs flying around since months before launch.

2.- This would be highly subjective Soriku. Game can be scaled or downgrade. Also, sometimes hardware can't be directly compared. For example the 360's GPU is better than PS3's, while in the CPUs is the opposite.

3.- The ones that revealed specs (Sony and MS) already did PR spins, by giving max theoretical numbers under optimal conditions never achieved in games and/or giving certain number (ie: FLOPS) under a different calculation that inflates the number in comparison to other hardware. They are not lying, but it's good for the press.