I don't get MS's plan, announcing this early, Scrap NEO? PS5 in 2018?

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drkohler said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Don't forget as well that it won't be appearing for another 18 months, they could well be just putting down a plan of specs on a sheet of paper right now (along with some fancy cgi images of a PCB lol) but yeah there is every likelyhood that they're not intending to get that level of power and bandwidth with the very best of what there is on offer in 2016 but more likely they'll aim to achieve it with middle of the road tech in 2017.

18 months sound like a long time, unfortunately it isn't at all in the mass manufacturing/electronics business. The fact is that MS has to finalise the hardware components very soon if they want to come out by late 2017 with this Scorpio box. They better hope that HBM/interposer prices don't fall too fast until 2018 otherwise bandwidth will become available that makes 320GB/s look like a joke by then. Then again, I wonder where that 6TF number comes from. Again, that 6TF design thing must exist pretty much now. The soon-to-arive AMD 480 won't get you there and is rated at 150W which is already too high for a console gpu. Unless the whole spec thing is more or less a bluff by MS to take the wind off Sony.

I don't think the spec is a bluff. It would be really risky to give fake specs ay E3 when every gaming outlet is there. I think this will be the first proper PC / console hybrid that MS will have to take on steam. The push they are making on the digital space with games hints at that direction. 

 

I think Sony may up their machine to 5TF but they won't hit 6TF. The result will be a cheaper machine but less powerful.