| Soundwave said: I actually think this XBox 2 has been in development longer than Neo. If anything it wouldn't surprise me if Neo is the product being rushed to market because Sony does not want to make a PS5 so soon but they caught wind of XB2. MS seems to view the upgraded XBox as more of a successor and a large scale change to their entire hardware business (upgradable consoles, Win10 cross platform, etc.), so it will be a large change to their hardware business, not just a "XBox 1.5" as Phil Spencer mentioned. |
Thats not how people are seeing it now though.
People are refering to it as the Xbox One-ii (the one-two) (whats between a one and a two? 1.5).
Also their saying the reason Sony didnt do a slim is because AMD doesnt have older cpu & gpu designs at 16nm FinFETs.
They only have newer cpu & gpu designs for that proccess node.
Thats why Sony went for a PS4 Neo, because AMD went "that would be stupid and cost alot" "why dont you just use these designs we already have?"
So sony just slapped together a newer CPU & GPU (its still x86 & GCN) so there wont be compatability issues.
If Sonys PS4neo is 4.2 Tflops vs 5.3 Tflops of the Xbox One-ii, then that close enough in performance that most people probably wont be wowed by it.
Thats only a 26% differnce (the differnce between PS4 & Xbox One is about 40%).
That 1 year lead is gonna feel like along time.
