| EricHiggin said: Buying in bulk, is buying in bulk. Saying they couldn't get a better deal on 3.5", but could on 2.5", doesn't make sense from the manufacturers side. It's not like 3.5" is being phased out or anything like that. A 3.5" HDD could not fit inside the OG PS4 as it was designed, so it meant either a redesign, or a 2.5" HDD. |
I never said anything to the contrary.
| EricHiggin said: If PS and XB are so worried about noise, space, consumption, and heat, then an SSD would be way better than any HDD next gen, if the right price can be met. |
That is entirely dependent on costs of course.
| EricHiggin said: XB may have just went with DDR3, because XB1 wasn't directly focused on gaming, plus that was the norm for APU's at that time. |
Not the norm for APU's at the time? Common. You need to do better than that.
The Playstation 4 uses almost the same technology as the Xbox One, released around the same time, likely started it's development process around the same time.
It used GDDR5.
| EricHiggin said: I remember reading that the PS decision was not quite as last minute as some may think, so GDDR5 supply may have been locked up so XB couldn't even use it even it they wanted to. |
There was some concern over GDDR5 supply.
Anandtech had an article on it.
| EricHiggin said: That or XB would have possibly had to pay more and wait longer to launch, while building up GDDR5 supply, which they probably didn't want to do. I remember reading about all of the XB1 updates and add on software after launch, that made many wonder if the XB1 was rushed to some degree. Just way too much to take into account at the moment. Storage for PS5 could possibly be what RAM was for PS4. A big surprise. |
Certainly not a rushed console with the eSRAM and over engineered cooling system.
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