Even if you take into consideration the reduced Kinect BOM costs, the thing is still making the system more expensive for the consumer than it would have otherwise been. Quite more expensive if we go by the rumor that the new Kinect is costing Microsoft almost as much as the Xbone itself.
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Microsoft Confirms 53MHz GPU Speed Upgrade For Xbox One
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Even if you take into consideration the reduced Kinect BOM costs, the thing is still making the system more expensive for the consumer than it would have otherwise been. Quite more expensive if we go by the rumor that the new Kinect is costing Microsoft almost as much as the Xbone itself.
Pretty much yep
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
you can throw in the Atari 8-bit while you're at it.
FranXico
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Every shorter cycle helps. This helps with the performance of X1 games, and that's a good thing.
Yeap, the higher performance the lowest common denominator is the better it is for everyone.
CambriaRising
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Please don't spread misinformation.
Stop trollin'
metareferential
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hokagespit
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whats next price drop? 12gigs of ram? why didnt they just cobble the infos together and drop bombs it wouldve made a good impact. cmon kinectless sku!
BruiserBear
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As a likely XB1 buyer this fall, this makes me happy. Anything being improved is a good thing. I'm not worried about reliability because the box is already large and well cooled, so this shouldn't change much.
mr teaspoon
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Ugh, dammit, Microsoft is really making this hard for me. Not this 53mhz, just everything in aggregate.
I skipped PS3 last gen (not out of any bias or preference, really - just made a choice and stuck with it) and love my 360.
Of course I preordered PS4 at the end of E3 - used games, more powerful hardware, and better first parties. Still sucks having to pick up from XBL and migrate to PSN, and I much prefer Xbox's controller. And I do have to factor in that my girlfriend and I use our Xbox much more for Netflix and video apps than games...
I skipped PS3 last gen (not out of any bias or preference, really - just made a choice and stuck with it) and love my 360.
Of course I preordered PS4 at the end of E3 - used games, more powerful hardware, and better first parties. Still sucks having to pick up from XBL and migrate to PSN, and I much prefer Xbox's controller. And I do have to factor in that my girlfriend and I use our Xbox much more for Netflix and video apps than games...
I'm not tech savvy and even I know this is nonsense. Let's be happy about the bump but don't spread fud
LeeFowler.CU
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Agreed. The games on both systems will be great! I'm not going to let a lack of 4x MSAA (or w/e) stop me from enjoying games on the XB1 and I'm not going to let the lack of app snapping stop me from enjoying games on the PS4. I know console launches can be a great time to extol the virtues of your favorite corporation but at the end of the day I enjoy games, socially and solo, so I'll be picking up both systems by the end of 2014.
Gemüsepizza
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Amazing. You are either lying or you really believe this. Hint: There is still a 540+ GFLOPS difference between both consoles because the PS4 has 6 additional CUs.
Baseless generalizations. And changing the RAM type does not fix all of X1's issues, it would still be weaker as pointed out above. So obviously those complaints about a $500 console being less powerful than a $400 console would not stop.
SneakyStephan
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Or the 1.5 TF difference between ps4 and a high end gpu.
CouldBeWorse
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No, it's completely understandable! I've leaned more towards Sony myself the last couple of years and I started off pretty strongly in the tank for the 360 at the start of this generation.
I wasn't passing any value judgement on the existence of these general gaming community preferences going into next gen (here and beyond). I just thought it was silly of the poster to act as if that preference did not exist.
Lol. But seriously, shhhh. No PC. Only consoles now.
Gemüsepizza
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You can't really compare console FLOPS and PC FLOPS.
Ardenyal
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Ohhh mama!
MDSLKTR
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Agreed It's pretty much good news for everyone.
BruceLeeRoy
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Oh I misread your implication earlier. I apologize.
overconfidence
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so much win.
I really wish posters would stop this, kinect is part of the console and brings extra essentials to it. Its really not that big of a deal.
Logic cold.
You underestimate the power of MoneyHatz.
Syphon Filter
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Nice news.
tokyostomp
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what was the gpu speed clocked at before?
800MHz
800Mhz
CouldBeWorse
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Typing in short hand on an iPad isn't always the best to fully explain thoughts or points, which leads people to read into statements. I could've worded things better!
81 GFLOPS & yeah it's funny how 600GFLOPS was a small difference & now 81GFLOPS is a light at the end of the tunnel.
BruceLeeRoy
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jordan0386
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The smarter we are, the harder they work.
ethomaz
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"an example of that is we've tweaked up the clock speed on our GPU from 800mhz to 853mhz."
CouldBeWorse
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Typing in short hand on an iPad isn't always the best to fully explain thoughts or points, which leads people to read into statements. I could've worded things better, too.
Gemüsepizza
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This MS hate is getting annoying. I get it that some of you don't like them and their system, but must you people shit up every thread that talks about it. I just don't understand how some of u are spinning the GPU upgrade as negative. This is not going to cause the system to overheat, and it will still arrive this year.
ethomaz
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"an example of that is we've tweaked up the clock speed on our GPU from 800mhz to 853mhz."
Try again
Agreed, I for one don't care about it, but its very intriguing none the less.
anexanhume
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You mean the inflated numbers they fed to us 8 years ago?
ethomaz
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Only next Friday... ops... Fridayton.
BadAss2961
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After the hardware failures of this gen on both sides (especially 360), i'd be worried about it. Such a random overclock total could mean that they're pushing it as far as they can to lessen the gap with the PS4... Even if I planned on getting an Xbone, there's no way i'd guinea pig the launch model.
Latvian Hitman
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But, Titan only runs at 837MHz...
Newly up-clocked XB1 GPU better than Titan confirmed.
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