No im not downplaying anything.  Whether it is 4gb or 8gb it is a massive jump over 256MB.  256MB isn't even enough to allow cross game chat.  But people are not realizing what shared memory means either as you can see in this thread alone.  It isnt all towards dedicated memory.  

And to Turkish above you.  2GB reserved for the OS.  

So MS is going to start all over again? New GPU, new CPU, New Ram.............

The consoles will be near equal, dev have already said it. MS will have some better features, Sony will have some better features.
What I enjoy is the fact 360 fans are expecting so much.........

It doesnt matter which is more powerful all that matters are the gamesz

Well if Microsofts next X Box would have better specs that would burn a hole in my life so deep, that i must troll in every microsoft relatet thread as much as possible to give my crappy life a new reason to be still there.

I know there were a lot of WiiU haters and I'm addressing them too.  People need to stop trashing new consoles.  All they asked for was new consoles for half a decade and now that they're getting announced all they do is trash on them.  People seem to have more fun predicting doom for the consoles they aren't buying than enjoying the ones they do buy and that just shows me that they aren't having that much fun on them lol

It won't be. Microsoft is clearly going after the mainstream Wii audience with both their current 360 platform as well as integrated, mandatory Kinect in their next Xbox. High specs and appealing to the tech-savvy people who are brimming with a smile at PS4's power are not Msoft's target audience this go around.

Most indications are that at this point, Sony appears to be the only console maker left who is interested in pushing the envelope with extremely impressive specs.  Durango will be able to run next-gen multiplatform games, obviously, but they will have to be at least slightly down-scaled. 

even ps3 people will agree they'd die. but it will always fall back on what does ms bring to the table game wise. we can all agree microsoft for the last few years have dropped the ball. and its not about kinect cause i actually like kinect. id be suprise if sony dont use the new eye for voice control.

the funniest thing people complain about a new xbox 8 halo but rejoice a killzone. will complain about a new gears but look forward to uncharted. i always laff at the comparing how each one looks vs the next. its like comparing a picasso to a rembradnt to a divinci.

excuse me if i want them all.

Hmm, I think it'll be mixed. I'm not even a PC person so I have zero clue about the significance of the announced specs (and I think most people too really). The big thing people have been caught up on is the 8GB ram thing, so if Microsoft somehow one ups that maybe.

But Sony's DIFFERENTIATING benefits seems to really be:
1) Ease of development
2) Big library of first party games (i.e. "we're for hardcore gamers")
3) Social

To me, graphics have sort of become a thing to achieve competitive parity. People also seem to be not valuing them as much anymore as the last gen (a lot of the backlash against the PS4 announcement is that people feel like there's only an incremental improvement in graphics).

So, yeah, if Microsoft one ups Sony in any fashion, there'll be some kind of reaction. A huge one? Eh, if Sony fans really did value the specs that much, ironically they'll probably DEVALUE the importance of the specs and tout something else (as opposed to if they didn't really think it was an important benefit, they would just shrug and accept it).

I'm a Sony fan and like most that I've either talked to online or know in person it's all about the games.  If PS4 puts out 10% less power than nextbox it won't really matter to most because Sony systems for everyone I know who buys them sell on games and free online (for the basics at least).  No one seemed to care that PS and PS2 were less powerful.