Soundwave on 25 May 2016
| Intrinsic said: What about or how does the XB1.5 sound like a "full blown upgrade"? Lets not get ahead of ourselves here...... I think the direction MS is trying to go is obvious. First off lets not forget that as far as consoles go, like it or not, they are in competition with PlayStation and Nintendo. They will NOT release a $500 box if the alternative from Sony costs $350/$299. No matter how powerful it is, that box will be DOA. And they don't even have to, which brings me back to my original point. MS now more than ever realize that they had and have been dropping the ball as far as PC gaming goes. Probably over 90% of all PC gamers are using a windows OS. Thats a ridiculously large market that MS already owns but never took the initiative to tap. Until now. For MS, their focus right now is probably more about getting people off steam and onto the windows store. And back to that XB1 upgrade thing.....How much power MS can put on a chip is limited by the original architecture they chose to go with. No matter what they do, they have to make room for the SDRAM on the chip. If they make a console without it, it would literally mean they are asking devs to develop for two Xbox platforms. That stands to do way more harm to them than any possible good. As long as MS puts in the SDRam on die, then their APU will always be less powerful cause both theirs and sonys usually have about the same footprint. |
My guess is they're looking at switching to HBM2 RAM entirely.
XBox Scoprio or whatever will probably be $399.99, I don't see them going over that, but by fall 2017 that will be possible in a $399.99 kit.
