thismeintiel said:
That's not really true, though. When we are about a year or so away from mass production, there are things that can be changed. Just last gen, MS upped their clock speed to gain a little more power out of the XBO, trying to one up the PS4 slightly in CPU power, since they definitely lost the GPU game. And when they released the S, they upped the GPU clock to try and shrink the GPU gap a little. Sure, I doubt anything major, like going with an entire different chipset. Though, I guess Sony was forced to do that with the PS3 because their two Cell chip solution wasn't working, so they had to delay it a year. Nothing is impossible. I do think something that drastic is unlikely without being forced to like Sony was, though, but we may see them adjust clock speeds and/or a slight adjustment to how many CUs are active. |
I really doubt it. Adjusting active CU changes everything as far as cost and yields for the chips but even if MS were willing to do either, neither of those scenarios will be done based on that interview Sony did. Sony really didn't reveal anything more than what was expected and there wasn't anything groundbreaking that says, we missed something from MS end. If anything, things seem to be going right in line with expectations and to be honest, its Sony who is in the dark on exactly what MS is cooking up then MS is on what Sony is doing. Besides the rumor of 2 systems coming out, we really have no clue about what these systems will be bringing to market.
