Is ESRAM or whatever Xbone uses amenable to 3d FinFET process?
I'm just thinking about how well that will scale and fit in to such an APU.
If it didn't, it would become disproportionately expensive (to maintain 2d structures).
If it does (and especially if it is MORE proportionately benefited by 3d) then it's OK to repeat that.
I see alot of people expect/want MS to have full/trivial BC with Xbone, which kind of needs same memory arch.
OTOH, devs ALREADY develop for Sony's memory model, so switching to that model won't be difficult either,
any game with Sony port can just draw from the Sony code, which is more straight forward anyways.
Even MS exclusives can release a patch to work on Xbox "Dos" (or whatever) memory arch (an easier switch than vice versa).
Doing that WILL likely strongely invoke the issues people had with PS4NEO announcement,
e.g. Xbone (original) releases will suffer because their architecture/optimization model is dead end.
(much more so than PS4/NEO who will share same overall architecture)
I kind of suspect MS will go that way, and since they're breaking trivial BC anyways,
they will go ahead and update the CPU side more than Sony is (supposedly retaining Jaguar, just upclocked).
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