Makes no sense to me stuff like Youtube and Netflix require you to be a Gold member. Pay-to-play apps like Netflix especially. You're getting charged twice. And as far as Youtube goes why do I have to pay for it when it's obvious they don't want me using it anyway? Seriously, the thing is designed to discourage watching anything with it. Can't filter by length (My biggest complaint. Without this feature Youtube is basically worthless), can't save searches, etc. Then on top of the lack of features it crashes constantly.

Screw the exclusives. Witcher 3 is the best-looking upcoming game for next-gen consoles.

Think I'll go ahead and state the obvious: would have been a lot cooler if it were Half Life 3.

[QUOTE="Jonwh18"]

[QUOTE="rasengan2552"] No sir. Im offering up a solution to save traditional handheld gaming, before it ends up the way of the dinosaur rasengan2552

What are you, an investor? I really don't care about cell phones but many people around me are obsessed with them. Seriously, they'd rather mess with their phone than interact with what's going on around them in public places. Breaktime at work trips me out; half a dozen people sitting at a table glued to their phones and oblivious to everything around them. Almost looks like a scene from a horror/sci-fi movie. The cell phone has also ushered in unprecedented amounts of dicking around at work. I shit you not, people did twice as much work at their jobs 10-15 years ago than what they do today and it's almost entirely because of mobile devices.

But anyway, the point is that although I don't get into the cell phone thing I'm around plenty of people that do and I see the games they play and they are LAME. A lot of these games are about as complex as Tic Tac Toe or Hangman, lol. You really think that crap is gonna kill console gaming? Pllleeeaaase.

The kinda stuff that's popular on phones is flash crap like Candy Crush. If people are playing AAA titles on phones I haven't met them.

[QUOTE="Wickerman777"]

They certainly gave away a golden opportunity. With Sony bleeding money it gave MS an opportunity to majorly outdo them on hardware. I felt pretty sure that considering the financial situations of both companies MS's R&D department would easily outdo Sony's. Wow, did that ever turn out to not be the case. I was expecting at least one of these new machines to be sporting 2 1/2 terraflops of performance. Instead MS shocks me by delivering a mere 1.3.

CallOfDutyRulez

The humungous $3 billion R&D from Microsoft's end came from poor hardware choices, mainly the DDR3 RAM. They had to spend a crapton on implementing "band-aid" solutions like the eSRAM (So the GPU won't be bandwidth-starved) and move engines (To transfer data around the 2 split memory pools).

SONY's GDDR5 RAM provides higher real-world bandwidth across the entire 8 GB pool instead of just 32 mb with no need for move engines, since it's just 1 big pool of memory.

Yeah, I know what happened. Just surprised that it happened.

They certainly gave away a golden opportunity. With Sony bleeding money it gave MS an opportunity to majorly outdo them on hardware. I felt pretty sure that considering the financial situations of both companies MS's R&D department would easily outdo Sony's. Wow, did that ever turn out to not be the case. I was expecting at least one of these new machines to be sporting 2 1/2 terraflops of performance. Instead MS shocks me by delivering a mere 1.3.

[QUOTE="Zero_epyon"][QUOTE="ManatuBeard"]

Alpha dev kits are PCs with similar specs running windows. Final devkits have the same architecture and OS as the final console, usually with more RAM to run devtools and sometimes with slightly better specs.

ManatuBeard

CBOAT at GAF said that its all a lie.

Most likely devkits were underclocked in comparison to the final product and this overclocking refers to the update on devkits.

BS. The guy isn't an idiot. Claiming a spec jump, although very slight, and it not being true would cause a shitstorm. I'm sure he's aware of that.

[QUOTE="ManatuBeard"]

[QUOTE="Zero_epyon"]

I thought dev kits were not the actual platform, but hardware similar to to so developers have more room to play with while developing. This doesn't say that the actaul Xbox 1 will have the speed bump. Still would be good if it did though.

Zero_epyon

Alpha dev kits are PCs with similar specs running windows. Final devkits have the same architecture and OS as the final console, usually with more RAM to run devtools and sometimes with slightly better specs.

That guy wouldn't have said it in an interview if he just meant dev kits.

[QUOTE="ManatuBeard"]

So its not 50Mhz, its 53Mhz. They really squeezed and squeezed the max possible and might still be risking a new RRoD. That shows how desperate they are.

Why do they need to get 53 extra Mhz when they have the endless power of TEH CLOUD?

ronvalencia

Marketing e.g.

• 1.7 billion triangles per second @ 853Mhz vs 1.6 billion triangles per second @ 800Mhz.
• 853Mhz GPU vs 800Mhz GPU.

Hmm, I think most people have a pretty good understanding of clock speeds nowadays. Ya can take a processor up, ya can take it down, but it's still the same processor. If they really want a marketing advantage that would carry some weight they should put a little more RAM in there.