Xbox One Point Five rumour

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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Have a read of this:

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/05/25/...x-coming-this-year-more-powerful-xbox-in-2017

It seems MS might be following in the footsteps of Sony and releasing a slightly improved Xbox within this generation, with VR support.

What's more interesting is their intention to make the Xbox an in iterative release like Apple, apparently. I'm not sure I understand this; one of the advantages of a console over PC is it will always play the latest games, to the best of its ability. Now it seems you'll have different levels of performance with no word on whether some games will be exclusive to the latest revision only or whether devs will have to support 3 revisions or what... Interesting times!

I thought the design of consoles was a major cost and they were "loss leaders", getting the money back through games and PS+. Why design a console every few years!? I assume their PC-ish modular-ness means they can easily 'swap out' (not literally) CPUs etc.
 
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It has a lot to do with the change by AMD from planar to finfet. In the past they'd just make a slim design by taking advantage of the move to a smaller node but this time its not just a smaller node and it would mean having to redesign the existing chip for finfet.

It apparently costs a similar (kind of) amount of money to just use AMD's existing finfet designs and as an added bonus you get more power aswell. It may not be like this next gen as they'll still be on finfet when they come to make a Xbox 2/PS5 slim, unless loadsa people buy into this new method..
 
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Yes, to add to the above, I read somewhere that to stick with the current APU design in the PS4, Sony would have to have exclusively maintained a whole production line because the change in technology at AMD means they have to introduce the brand new production line for FinFET. So MS and Sony are kind of being forced to upgrade by AMD.

http://www.designntrend.com/article...mor-console-production-price-sony-new-ps4.htm
 
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Well I have to say todays been an eventful day - though completely wasted...

I look forward to repeatedly telling some people how stupid their points are for the following year or so. Yeah Im a **** :)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Oh Ive said nothing that interesting on GAF, Im just enjoying the ride and trying to work out how to bend reality like some do. Really little point with just so much noise out there...

EDIT: So when are you building your PC anyway?

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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ps3ud0 said:
Oh Ive said nothing that interesting on GAF, Im just enjoying the ride and trying to work out how to bend reality like some do. Really little point with just so much noise out there...

EDIT: So when are you building your PC anyway?

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Already have, got an i5-4690k, 980Ti, 16Gb RAM

:D

Kreeeee said:
No one ever does, it's a horrid place.
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It's not that bad at all.
 
Yea, it really is. Have to laugh at their sources who where wrong in everything leading up to the current gen launch.
They act like they have secret insider information, when they don't.
 
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