Dead Rising 3 and surprisingly Ryse have been getting good impressions. Although I think that the smart thing to do would be to wait for the inevitable DR3: Off the Record though. I'm pretty sure that would have all the framerate kinks sorted out.

And Titanfall being that guys number 2 game? Did that guy see Titanfall?

(Oh it's Moonwalker)

Is that a pastebin copy and paste or do you actually have an insider friend. Not to name any names but there've been a few people on this board who have tried to claim insider status. Some real, some not.

Yeah.. that's probably why it mostly sounds like bullshit. It's like when DICE said that BF4 had some DX11.1 features, and then tons of forum idiots extrapolated the idea that it was "better optimized on Xbox" from that statement.

And now people will swear that this is what DICE actually said. It is not.

I see a lot of desperate Xbox fans. Based on the specs MS and Sony themselves released and verified with block diagrams the Sony GPU has about 50% more flops (shaders), 100% more fill rate (ROPs or RBEs whatever you want to call them these days), and a moderate bump in texturing as well (iirc it was 40% or so but I don't remember). About the only thing similar is the triangle setup rate and that is only because of how AMD GPUs setup at clock rate (but note your 1100MHz low end GPU isn't besting the high end 850MHz GPU so this is trivial). And imo the ESRAM is too small for the space it takes up on the chip, lacks flexibility (where is the full CPU and GPU direct read/write cache? Now THAT would have been interesting and a trend breaker), and isn't even really fast. 170GB/s to a larger DDR pool is better than a split 8GB DDR @ 60GB/s + 32MB @ 100GB/s cache.

Looking at the hardware it is obvious WHY MS went with their design: DDR3 is dirt cheap. Figure it costs $10 less per console than GDDR5; at 50M units that is $500M. $500M less loses and/or stick into the corporate coffers. Or invest in Kinect. Cache's scale quicker than logic (almost perfect scaling). But the joke is really on early adopters. Sounds like Xbone's chips are bigger, so they cost more up front. Hence why the Xbox is $100 more (that and Kinect). So you pay more to get less as an early adopter only so you can pad MS down stream in year 3 when they get process shrinks in so they can cut costs. Of course we saw with this generation cutting costs means monetizing everything, cutting out non-monetized features (e.g. system link... I lol at the games that support it for stupid stuff like triple monitors but they strip it out of Multiplayer JUST for the purpose to force XBL Gold), with no intent to drive the console MSRP into the low end.

MS's strategy has been pretty obvious for years. The core game developers they had were spun off or closed down. They are astutely focused on services and broad appeal software. They feel, internally, they have their major franchise hooks (Halo, Forza) to show off the hardware and, like their Windows approach, want to "encourage" developers to fill the gaps. Alas Sony isn't Apple. Sony doesn't have a $1000 console with limited features and walled garden compared to MS. They have less behind paywalls, more open infrastructure, and are keenly focused on the prime purpose of the platform. MS will probably have a more tightly focused platform in terms of coherence but Sony's is clearly more broad/accepting and focused on gaming first.

The hardware and everything they have talked about, as well as their business decisions, play this tune.

If I was a MS fan I would be less worried about BS hardware rumors and more worried that

- The platform message is psycho
- The unfocused flip/flopping that underminds their platform vision (And also make you think "So, when will they take away the carrot they flipped flopped on?)
- The lack of focus on core consumers
- Coming in too expensive with nothing to justify $100 more to general markets
- The constant stream of BAD press. And I don't care if they "explain" later from watching the mainstream news MS's messaging has been greatly panned
- The freaking just canned the Xbox division head, replaced him with a non-gamer
- The freaking CEO was "gently" told to retire (long time coming from an investor position; MS makes money but they also have failed in Search, Mobile, Tablets on Balmer's watch, Xbox is clearly going to have troubles this gen, Windows Vista/8 have tarnished MS's image and have affected how corporates look at MS, and online cloud enabled office software looks to take a chunk out of Office.)

MS has problems. Xbox is just one of the symptoms. The sad thing is a new CEO and division head could turn things around. But for this gen it is too late.

So keep believing MS, out of the generosity of their hearts, has withheld super computer specs and the Xbox One is some PS4 killer.

Sheeesh.

They didn't just grasp at straws.

What they did was EAT the straw.

What you saw on the forum is the cow patty that came after.

Wait..... that's not a wall of text about Microsoft's secret sauce.....

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REAL OPTIMUS? Oh right, you're retiring in 12 months ;)

His life force is tied to the Xbox. He is dyeing. Read into that what you wish.