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Intrinsic on 09 November 2017
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EricHiggin said:

Pemalite said:

The Xbox 360's chip used GDDR3 rather than DDR3. We could technically class that as an APU once the GPU was integrated within the CPU.

There were many reasons why Microsoft chose DDR3 over GDDR5, the fact it was an "APU" wasn't one of them.

I would hope not for their sake.

If I am not mistaken, the key issue over the whole RAM thing back then was not just a supply issue, but more importantly a supply issue of 4Gb (gigabit) GDDR5 chips (PS4 cerca 2013 had 16 of such chips). No one could have been sure of those chips would become readily available or the launch of the consoles. Sony was even rumoured to be juggling the idea of using 4GB of GDDR5 and 4GB of DDR3. Even their developers said they found out about the 8GB when we all did.

MS went with DDR3 cause right off the bat they wanted to have 8GB of ram...... but cause they anticipated that it wont be possible to make that of the GDDR5 variety early on in the life of their console design they went the ESram route which is actually a more complex chip design that what sony's approach was. That shows a lot of forward thinking and indicates that they were never rushed. 

Sony was going with the split ram thingy until they got their breakthrough and lucked out on 4Gb GDDR5 ram chips being available. It was relatively easier for them to rework their board.

TallSilhouette said:
I just had a thought. If the XB4 and PS5 release in the same year, they will probably be pretty similarly powered and priced. Other specs would become more important to differentiate them, then. What would be a better selling point? A high capacity, lower speed drive to store lots of 100+ GB games, or a high speed, low capacity drive to load said games much quicker? If they're going head to head, which do you think they'll go with?

This right here is the real reason sony is against cross play.

At the end of the day, when there is absolutely nothing to separate the consoles anymore (consider that right now we are at a point where comparisons usually have to zoom in by like 200%+ to highlight differences or we are comparing framerates that differ by like 2-7 frames.... yes, thats nitpicking) the only thing to differentiate them would be games and userbase.

Chances are, if the two consoles are exactly the same, then everyone that has a PS4 now will go with a PS5 and everyone that has a XB1 will get an XB2. The next generation of the HD twins will be more "identical" than ever before. Its only their software lineup that will differentiate them. Something MS finally seems to be catching onto if we are to take Phil Spencers words as fact which suggests that MS are gonna start acquiring studios or making new ones.