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setsunatenshi on 26 May 2016
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Soundwave said:

I do find it a little funny that a 4 TFLOP PS4 in a few months for $399 is totally believable, but a 6 TFLOP XBox a full year later would be some how impossible, probably be $600, etc. etc. etc. lol.

No chance the XBox Scorpio is not a good deal more powerful than the Neo, I don't care what RAM they use. MS knows not having parity/superiority on third party multiplats hurt them and the XBOne's underpowered spec hurts them on VR also, Scorpio will address those issues.

Scorpio will be the most powerful console spec on the market when it launches probably by a good amount and will be upgradable from that point onwards too. 6 TFLOP for MS is about what I'd expect if Sony can do 4+ this year.

I don't see that number as terribly shocking or surprising, they're not going to release something a year later that was only going to be on par with the PS4 Neo, c'mon. It's not going to be like $500 or anything either I'd bet, the year gap will allow them to get a considerably better chip than whatever Sony will have. 

To be honest I don't think MS is as beholden to gauruntee "parity" with old XOne models either. By 2017 they'll have given the XOne a full four years of support and it'll be gaurunteed to get at least another year of releases from that point on, which would be five full years of support. It's not like XOne is the market leader or anything, they're not beholden to support it forever, 4 years of primary support + 1 year of secondary/solid support would be decent, then they could transition more over to this newer XBox2 model or whatever it's called. 

you left out something else that I have said, the HMB2 not only would be much more expensive but also absolutely unnecessary. It's immaterial if you think 6TFLOP will be the final power output, it's all conjecture and speculation based on nothing at the moment. What's factual is that HMB2 will only come after Vega 10 and the yields on the top of the line GPU would never be sufficient to feed an assembly line of a console. The price would be too high.

for comparison sake the gtx 1070 is already 6 TFLOPs and it's still using DDR5, not HMB2 (because it would make it much pricier and overkill for the capabilities it has)