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[teiresias]

Sounds more like a retrospective on the drama involved in the design and whether they'd be able to get 8GB in the thing.

 

[Zombie James]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

What?

 

[MikeJAMoran]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

What? They made most of their announcements months before the Xbox One was revealed.

 

[dispensergoinup]

PS4 Rise to Heaven or PS180??

Be here tomorrow for the dramatic conclusion!


I love these moments in GAF.

 

[Samyy]

Didn't they just pass a version through the FCC?

 

[Symthic]

If there is a downgrade, I wouldn't be surprised. $400 for that quality hardware is very low. I imagine if they sold at that price, they'd lose more money than they'd gain, and the $400 price point was just to deliberately undercut the Xbox One.

So now they either have to downgrade or raise the price, and less people would care about a downgrade, while significantly more would care about a price increase.

Just a theory here.

 

[Finalizer]

By the power of grey skull, CBOAT come hither.

Don't think his particular brand of magic works on Sony.

 

[Calavera520]

The interesting and potentially scary part is that Sony has statements to make regarding it. What on earth could it be?

or, most likely, this is all nonsense...

if anything it will be a supply issue, and this EG writer is just trying to drum it up for whatever reason.

 

[Y2Kev]

This tweet came out this morning and no one picked up on it?

 

[Kromis1]

But the guy ended his tweet with a smiley! Just look at it!!! I don't think it's going to be all that bad.

If it is a production issue and that causes delays, no big deal. It'll be fixed, eventually. As long as it comes out before Christmas...

 

[starwarsfan541]

Hmm, drama implies bad, curious to see what happens, is the guy credible.

 

[mangochutney]

This is what's wrong with the gaming press side of the industry. If you have news reveal it. Sony can then make all the comments they want. You don't hold off and let them prepare damage control etc. ahead of time.

Gaming Press is far too incestuous with the industry as a whole

This is nothing to do with gaming press. This is how all media works. You get your story and invite the company to comment on it. Every news outlet does this.

 

[Stike]

Probably nothing about the specs, those are final and the machine is already (veeery presumably) in production.

The only thing I can think of is a sudden yield issue. Maybe less units available than expected?

 

[StudioTan]

The word "drama" indicates something bad.

it doesn't sound alarming, or too bad, but it sounds kinda worrying, at least to my understanding, because if it wasn't then those tweets would be pointless

Kind of... But he wrote it in the "Forum Troll" kind of way.

Thanks guys, hopefully it's nothing major.

 

[MikeE21286]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

Hahaha

Oh my wut?

They've led with all announcements. Ludicrous comment is ludicrous.

 

[intheinbetween]

Both machines will be ok, but what initially seemed to be much better is diluting little by little as more info pops-up.

 

[Corto]

I'm pretty sure that guy (the twitter EG Spain sub-director) posted here. At least someone with the exact same avatar and also spaniard. I think he was banned though on a PC troll thread. Bummer, I would like for him to post some hints here.

 

[Kerub]

Is there some kind of ritual to summon CBOAT?

 

[Gestault]

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

Xbox Patrol....

In position.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

Lol. GAF is a funny place at times.

Its a expose of the system that Sony wants to come at the same time as a PS blog post, hense the delay.

 

[Yoday]

Considering the consumer PS4 has already gone through FCC filings, I highly doubt this is anything related to a downclock or RAM configuration change. Plus if that were happening we would likely already know about it through rumors. I could see it being a higher allocation to OS, which would create developer drama because they have been working with a specific amount in mind.

Whatever it is, it is probably nothing big, or they would have just posted about it, and this is just them after clicks.

 

[Knoxcore]

If Sony wants to publish a statement, it means it is bad news.

 

[Frodo]

I don't think it should be something too bad... Otherwise they would have said something like "Shocking news involving PS4 RAM" or something of the sorts...

 

[Loudninja]

This tweet came out this morning and no one picked up on it?

Yeahh...

 

[ReaperXL7]

Wouldent it be really late to be downgrading, or upgrading now? With all.the work thats gone into development builds it seems like they would just be fucking with developers at this point......am I just going to build a PC Sony?

 

[FZZ]

I think they'll keep the 8GB, but they might go from GDDR5 to GDDR3.

But if they do downgrade I can totally see them going from 8GB to 6GB.

Either way, tomorrow will be very interesting.

They could also be having yield problems. Hmmm...

 

[Croyles]

I love seeing people panic, it's like my soul is munching on popcorn.

Supply issues? RAM downgrade?

Could it also be the story about how they ended up using 8gb GDDR5 because developers were booing Cerny at one point?

I don't know. Best to just wait until the info is actually out there before jumping to conclusions (totally like how I just did ).

 

[BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

Lmfao

I was joking by the way no insider scoop on my part lol

I know

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Just remember Sony just send the customer version to FCC. It could be they wont be able to have has many units as they wanted.

That'd be weird since they have been telling Amazon and other retailers to turn on the launch day pre-orders again for bundles.

 

[Vestal]

Both machines will be ok, but what initially seemed to be much better is diluting little by little as more info pops-up.

Perfect translation. very curious as to what has changed or been uncovered

 

[beast786]

Don't they always release bad news on Fridays?

 

[keit4]

So who is this guy?

A member of the Eurogamer Spain staff.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Lol. GAF is a funny place at times.

Its a expose of the system that Sony wants to come at the same time as a PS blog post, hense the delay.

Really?

But then why even mention it like that? Oh yeah, Twitter.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Sony finds extra bandwidthz in their GDDR5, no explanation how. - Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter

 

[Guymelef]

Why would Sony want to make a statement about this issue?

Hoping it's nothing bad.

But the reaction for a downgrade would be oh so sweet. xD

They are waiting for Sony version.

 

[Relativ9]

PS4 already paced FCC testing didn't it? It can't be a hardware change. Possibly the OS taking up more RAM then initially thought or some details on how Sony came to the 8GB GDDR5 number in the first place perhaps.

 

[paskowitz]

Unless there has been an issue in the supply chain I do not see how they could make a "major decision" like people are saying.

 

[Amir0x]

oh god Sony, please don't do anything stupid. You have a streak of good media attention right now

 

[cyberheater]

Both machines will be ok, but what initially seemed to be much better is diluting little by little as more info pops-up.

I've said all along that Xbox One was better then most of GAF said it was. We will see.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I think they'll keep the 8GB, but they might go from GDDR5 to GDDR3.

But if they do downgrade I can totally see them going from 8GB to 6GB.

Either way, tomorrow will be very interesting.

They've already submitted and been approved by the FCC, neither of these things will happen.

Also, there is no GDDR3.

 

[Kazuma Kiryu]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

Holy crap, it's already starting. Grab on everyone!

 

[Dan]

Both machines will be ok, but what initially seemed to be much better is diluting little by little as more info pops-up.

What other new info has diluted the PS4's stats? There's been some Xbox One developments that diminished their disadvantages, but I'm not sure about anything else.

 

[Y2Kev]

I don't think FCC certification would preclude a spec dump.

 

[Chinpoko_Master]

If Sony wants to publish a statement, it means it is bad news.

Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. Doesn't sound good.

 

[kaching]

It's not a production issue i guess.

Decreases the difference with XBone.

If not production issue, then probably decision to allocate more RAM to OS than expected. Which would fit with "decreases the difference".

 

[guek]

So who is this guy?

If he uses the same avatar on Gaf, he's kind of a troll. Dunno if he'd have legit info or anything though

 

[CaptainTiptop]

Most of Sony's announcements with PS4 has been knee jerk reactions just to 1up MS. It had to come crashing down sooner or later.

Haha, oh boy...

 

[salromano]

Both machines will be ok, but what initially seemed to be much better is diluting little by little as more info pops-up.

This sounds like a reference to Microsoft removing all their restrictive features over time, the most recent being yesterday's indie publishing.

As far as the RAM goes, I wouldn't think Sony would downgrade it. They talk about it too much.

 

[trmas]

Pretty sure it is the CPU bottleneck versus the huge bandwidth for the GPU itself.