| Train wreck said: Sony and Microsoft's decision to go with off the shelf parts looks like it was the smart move for both them and consumers. Whatever cost savings they incur they can pass to the consumer in terms of lower prices. In another instance of Nintendo wanting to be different, it seems to have backfired...again. |
Oh. Those "off the shelve parts" are on NO shelves today. I can't buy ANY of those chips.
Both XOne and PS4 have CUSTOM design excactly suited to their respective needs.
There are two things which makes the HD twins chips cheaper:
- a SINGLE die instead of multiple bound together as on the Wii U.
- TINY amounts of L2 cache to support those slow netbook cores
Those design decissions in favor to monetarize their consoles at the earliest possible time is indeed going to backfire BIG in 2016 when TWO new AMD customers are using the LATEST AMD x86 and ARM APUs.
While some speculated about Nintendo being one of the customers - it is clear who they are: FACEBOOK and AMAZON.
Its ironic that Microsoft and Sony paved the way for THEIR biggest threat - a ME-TOO console running circles around them. At least for Microsoft it makes sense: they will do everything whats needed to have WINDOWS on the FACEBOOK CONSOLE. As Sony has nothing to offer OS wise they will be the biggest loser of this gen...
