http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/11/xbox-720-ps4-codenames-revealed-microsofts-oban-chip-detailed-rumour/#

We all know Sony's financial woes and Microsoft's lack thereof.  According to this they are having trouble manufacturing chips for their new console, but the PS4 chips are being delayed because of the 720's errors.  Obviously it would be huge for Microsoft to gain a holiday on Sony again and get a couple million lead, especially in America.  So is Microsoft merely ensuring they get to market first by having their chips made by the same place and ahead of PS4's?  Or is this rumor just not making any sense?

Nonsense, it simply doesn't work that way, if the PS4 chips go into production after the 720's chips, it'll be because that was the production schedule in terms of date of orders.

So Microsoft and Sony chips might be both delayed.   It sounds like both lose.

but Sony will still be behind.  Look I have no idea how these things work I'm not a business expert.  It's just something I thought of as I read the article that Microsoft would do to get another jump because the fact that they're still tied even though Sony launched at %50 more, a year later, with no big exclusives, and with a bitch to program for system may worry them.

agreed as i'm sure u knew i would.

either way it won't hurt sony.  

A. MS got their order in first. (Early bird gets the worm)

B. Nobody can anticipate manufacturing delays. (Sucks for everybody)

C. It doesn't matter, but machines will come out and be sold to millions of fans. (Stupid fanboy wars mean nothing.)

Oops my post was a little off and I will correct it now.  I meant to say that the chips Microsoft is trying to get in production will delay Sony chips (not that they are using the same chips).  Anyways, this seems to be a problem because you usually don't hear of production problems too often (ones that delay things due to reliability).  Microsoft needs to delay it till they get decent components because they can't afford another mishap in reliability issues.  It sounds to me that both are going to be pushed back a little further than originally planned.

No; foundries turn down offers like this because it would piss off all their other customers.

There may be capacity issues though.

I wonder how this works aswell

is it a small company and everybody works on 1 thing? I thought these big ass companies knew how to Multitask?

Now i bet they wouldn't like if Sony just decided to go with another companies chips. They might aswell go with another company while MS and AMD(or whatever) just sit there trying to iron out these stupid ass issues.

This sh!t made me mad lol

Edit: Lets hope that this dumb sh!t is false..

From what I read, it didn't would like MS's chips have reliability issues. The problem is that the production yield on usable chips is low. In chip manufacturing a batch of chips comes on a waffer board. On the board are good chips and bad chips. The problem is that the process is yielding a low number of good usable chips.

While this can delay manufacturing some, it can be delt with in a number of ways. However, it has nothing to do with the reliability of the final product.