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Machiavellian on 08 April 2017
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exclusive_console said:
black8jac said:
So, Scorpio has the same CPU as PS4, clocked slightly higher. GPU with 40 GCN cores as oppose to PS4 pro's 36, also clocked higher. 12GB gddr5 vs PS4 pro's 8GB gddr5 +1GB ddr3, also admitteadly faster. Scorpio is definitely superior but it's not groundbreaking difference. We still don't know the price and there is not a lot worthy exclusives on Xbox platform. I think Sony is not loosing sleep over this.

TBH I was expecting 54 cores. But instead they overclocked it with 40 cores which IMO is disappoinintg. We already knew about 6TF and ram BW. CPU was not a surprise and so was the 4K BR drive. 12gb ram was also rumored. The price and difference between the checkerboard, Scorpio resolution will be intresting. That is the only difference in IQ I can see. The only good, surprise was that all games will be supersampled for 1080P users which I think Sony should implement via update soon.

I have to wonder what does it matter.  If you believe having the GPU at the same frequency as your desktop GPU isn't impressive in a cosole size hardware which probably going to be smaller and more compact then the X1 S I am not sure MS could have made you happy.  More core does not make the console better since it was always going to hit exactly the target specs MS released already.  None of the things you state were rumored.  Those were the specs MS released during E3.  The thing is people started to over hype what MS already stated without thinking that when MS made those specs revealsed they already was probably on silcone.  The impressive part of the hardware is that from the front to the back of the pipeline MS has made sure to give the console the memory and speed to do exactly what they stated it will do.  If anyone was hoping for next gen Xbox then they were really just fooling themselves.  Price is a big issue here so MS had to hit that target as well.