| shikamaru317 said: Lol, "based solely on rumor and speculation". Digital Foundry obtained an official spec sheet that came with dev kits that were already sent out to developers. That qualifies as something quite a bit stronger than rumor and speculation. Digital Foundry has no reason to lie, and they backed up their report with multiple sources. A complete redesign after dev kits have already gone out would be pretty costly, they would have to get AMD to design an entirely new chipset in order to match Scorpio, because overclocking has limits, you simply can't overclock a 4.2 tflop GPU all the way up to 6 tflops and memory speed from 218 GB/s up to 320 GB/s on air cooling in a small form factor case. And since multiple reports have pointed to a 2016 release, that means retail units would have already begun manufacturing even before E3, making a complete redesign pretty costly because they wouldn't be able to sell all of the units they already manufactured. Not to mention they'd piss off the developers who have already begun developing games on the old spec dev kits, they would have to completely start from scratch and make new builds to take advantage of the extra power. I suspect Sony will overclock Neo a bit (15% tops) and release this year to get the early release advantage in. |
rumors tell that Sony had two different versions all along and they want to put a stronger CPU into the stronger version of the two as well
