Exactly - ppl here try to play quartets with specs and conclude which system will be faster than the other one while not even remotely guessing what impact the components will have. Some were already arguing KZ2 could run with 60fps now because of twice thr RAM...

exactly it wont take away anything except a talking point from playstation users about xbox weaker etc...  then it will fall back  to the games argument.  one thing i hope is that microsoft has a strong line up that actually crushes ps4.  not for the sake of xbox vs ps4.  but for gaming.  that will take away the other argument ms has no games ordont care about "hardcore" gamers.  then both sides can get out their corners and stop being total asses and just enjoy games for games sake not for console sake.

Just like they did with the ps3 after a whole year, right?

Yeah, doing all that and at the end of the day still being beaten by the Playstation 3.  And there's really no reason to suspect that xbox will blow up next gen because they don't have the momentum on their side now or they'd be winning the console race each and every week, but they're not coming out on top each and every every week these days in the dedicated console market are they?  Somebody else is.

MORE powerful...?

yes i definately gonna buy NextXbox if it comes with the most powerful current PC CPU and GPU, 32GB GDDR5 RAM all for just US$399...

sorry Sony you lose...

They will be very close, even with the rumored specs. The DDR3 vs DDR5 difference is not as big as the internet tells you, when you see a complete system. I think the consoles will be in the 5 - 15% more / less powerful than the counterpart.

So games like Killzone 4 will be easily possible on the next Xbox as well.

I will get the Xbox 3 anyway, because it will likely have the best games lineup and the best online experience again.

Anybody else think GDDR5 bragging is more annoying then when they bragged about the cell?

PS fans have come to expect the best graphics since 2006. It isnt their heritage and thus have abandoned it, but hey, not my problem. Either way, it would smack them in the face so to speak that their new way of life is for naught.

There will be plenty of meltdowns on these forums regardless of the specifications that will be provided, but I really doubt that it will pivot around hardware specifications when Microsoft unveils, because Microsoft is going to pivot the discussion away from that point of contention. Sony might have learned something about designing a console from their failures last generation, but Microsoft had a lesson to learn as well.

Microsoft needed to learn something about having enough content to keep consumers loyal. They had some truly great games, but not nearly enough of them. Which allowed Sony to crawl back in by overproducing software some years, and after a certain point Microsoft couldn't leverage support for exclusives from third parties. Just like Sony. Microsoft went a long way too address that problem.

Over the past few years while Sony has been cutting back on studios. Microsoft has greedily expanded its own presence. As of today Microsoft has far more studios supporting its platform. Then Sony has supporting theirs, and as of yet we as a community haven't seen the fruits of those labors. Most likely due to Microsoft opting to hoard that development on to the other side of the generational divide.

When Microsoft unveils we aren't going to be talking about the hardware specs nearly as much as we are going to be talking about the number of first party games that Microsoft showcased, or all the software features that Microsoft is going to have baked in. It is going to come as quite a shock to a lot of people. Even though some of us have been pointing it out for quite some time. All the studios that Microsoft has built or bought.

They will do that, if the assume the Nextbox is much more powerful.

so much so that it burns the eyes