ICStats on 23 August 2014
| vivster said: Wait what? Why would they design a console to be weaker just because of kinect? Kinect was already calculated within the price so its cost would've never affected the console specs. If they would've used cheaper hardware X1 without Kinect would currently be below 399. What makes the inferior hardare so expensive is the ESRAM. That was the idiotic decision that broke X1's specs. Not the RAM or Kinect. |
Nah the eSRAM is necessary because of the RAM decision. DDR3 alone is way too slow.
In turn the eSRAM takes up a lot of die area, and the Xbox One has 6 less graphic cores (Compute Units), fewer texture units & ROPs because of that.
My 8th gen collection
