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TRUTHFACT: MS having eSRAM yield problems on Xbox One

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Nightengale

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Salvor.Hardin said:
MS is one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world. Wouldn't it be obligated to release information about yield issues on a major hardware release if it were true?
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I'm saying this as someone who works in O&G. You'd be surprised at how much 'incidents' gets managed behind the scenes, with very little of it being revealed to the public.

Yes, many of these are extremely minor and small-scale incidents that barely register in the media radar, but the reality is that huge companies are involved with a ton of fire-fighting day in day out, and there's a lot of things they would rather not share with the public, especially if competitor can take a major advantage against it.
 
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ElTorro

I wanted to dominate the living room. Then I took an ESRAM in the knee.
Nightengale said:
Yes, many of these are extremely minor and small-scale incidents, but the reality is that companies are fire-fighting a ton of stuff, and there's a lot of things they would rather not share with the public, especially if competitor can take a major advantage against it.
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Yep, and this is pretty much the standard procedure in engineering. Fire fights happen all the time in complex projects.
 
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crazy buttocks on a train

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Salvor.Hardin said:
Hmm I think you're misinterpreting his post. I think he's implying that his bit about esram yield problems relates to today's announcement of delays in some Euro countries. And the 'more to come next week' will be him revealing more news that may or may not be connected to this issue next week.
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saladine1

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So, this isn't a localization problem but still a yield problem?
Why hasn't this affected the countries that are getting the Xbox One this year?
 
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MogCakes

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Raist said:
MS said it's because of localization, so quite frankly I'll take their word over some forum poster who can't type properly.

I mean I tried to learn swedish and norwegian once, it's super hard guys seriously.
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I've heard that before! :p

jond76 said:
Look, I believe CBoat proved himself in some way to the mods, which is why he's allowed to continue to post.... But what bothers me is all this vague "wait till next week" bs that could mean absolutely ANYTHING. Then when whatever happens...CBoat validated!!

Gamescom will beat a hoot for sure.
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He has a 90% accuracy rate for all his leaks, which comprise the entirety of his post history here on GAF. He's far and beyond proven to just the mods.
 
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nib95

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saladine1 said:
So, this isn't a localization problem but still a yield problem?
Why hasn't this affected the countries that are getting the Xbox One this year?
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I'm assuming a lot of the countries it's still launching in have factories or manufacturing plants that can make the consoles and have them go direct to the relevant sources. Probably can't build enough consoles to ship every where else at this present time.
 
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maabus1999

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Salvor.Hardin said:
Hmm I think you're misinterpreting his post. I think he's implying that his bit about esram yield problems relates to today's announcement of delays in some Euro countries. And the 'more to come next week' will be him revealing more news that may or may not be connected to this issue next week.
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And how many comes would be sold in those delayed countries over those months? 100000? Less? If there were yield issues this announcement really doesn't rectify any supply issue. The localization piece honestly sounds more plausible for now.
 
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ypo

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Raist said:
MS said it's because of localization, so quite frankly I'll take their word over some forum poster who can't type properly.

I mean I tried to learn swedish and norwegian once, it's super hard guys seriously.
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I'm sure Microsoft is having its interns currently learning foreign languages just to do translations.
 
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nib95

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I wonder what he means by next week there will be more...
 
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ObiDin

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saladine1 said:
So, this isn't a localization problem but still a yield problem?
Why hasn't this affected the countries that are getting the Xbox One this year?
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If true, they consolidated the remaining consoles to the 13 stated countries. That would be why they are launching later in the remaining 8.
 
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Nightengale

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saladine1 said:
So, this isn't a localization problem but still a yield problem?
Why hasn't this affected the countries that are getting the Xbox One this year?
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To date, everything points towards Xbox's allocation of pre-orders at retail being much lower than PS4's pre-order allocations.

There hasn't been any news on that, or even any updates on whether or not Xbox has increased their allocation.

With the news of the launch countries being reduced, we'll see if there's any news from the ground of Xbox pre-order allocations increasing. If there is, then we can assume the stock from the removed countries were used to increase the launch country allocations...

If not... welp, yield issues.

ypo said:
I'm sure Microsoft is having its interns currently learning foreign languages just to do translations.
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Interns? Big companies rarely deal with those kind of issues, they outsource translation to creative agencies/translators who literally has an entire team of multi-language translators.

Interns would be better served to work as low-level coders to input all the translation changes into the software, so that they can run and test the software with the language changes.
 
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Raist

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saladine1 said:
So, this isn't a localization problem but still a yield problem?
Why hasn't this affected the countries that are getting the Xbox One this year?
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Obviously because the language of these countries is much easier for the Xbone's OS programmers to learn!
 
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RoboPlato

I'd be in the dick
maabus1999 said:
And how many comes would be sold in those delayed countries over those months? 100000? Less? If there were yield issues this announcement really doesn't rectify any supply issue. The localization piece honestly sounds more plausible for now.
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Microsoft is has been a major international corporation for many years. They can handle localization with ease. You'll never hear them confirm they're having yield issues.
 
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maabus1999

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RoboPlato said:
Microsoft is has been a major international corporation for many years. They can handle localization with ease. You'll never hear them confirm they're having yield issues.
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Voice localization is easy now you say? And still missed the logic of my post. This announcement doesn't rectify a yield issue problem...
 
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MogCakes

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jond76 said:
I didn't state otherwise.
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You said CBOAT's words could mean anything and people will rush to validate them in the aftermath of whatever happens. I'm saying his words most definitely have specific intent and meaning. In this case he said info is coming next week.
 
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