TRUTHFACT: MS having eSRAM yield problems on Xbox One

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If there was a downclock devs would have known about it for a while. This isn't something you decide 5 months before launch if you expect to have games ready in time.
 
I'm sure once they officially admit to yield problems it'd be picked up by more mainstream outlets and would hurt Microsofts stock. That's why no one from Microsoft will flat-out say they have those problems.

You just have to look at the numbers they expect to ship to GameStop in comparison to the PS4 to see there's something wrong with XB180 though. No one can deny that.

Also, what spisho said. It's too late to downclock the system. Hell, they have to patch out the DRM stuff and we are still five months away from launch.
 
What do you guys expect them to say?
"yes we are having yield problems, everything is horrible"

Like who is thinking they should tweet these people and expect an honest response?
 
Has this been posted?

https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/347111086589349888

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Pffft.. I only believe them when it's bad news.
 
Pffft.. I only believe them when it's bad news.

You really didn't think this statement through. Why wouldn't you believe a company publicising bad information on their own product?

This is a completely internal issue, they don't have to admit manufacturing issues to anyone and can flat-out deny them because it is in their best interest to project the image of Xbone manufacturing going perfectly - especially after the 360, as word of issues (which could even spread by them staying silent) could potentially scare buyers off.
 
So if they downclock to 850gflops, how will it effect games?

How much inferior would the release games be to the ones showed at E3

No if about it. There is no downclock and there never was. What you saw at E3 is what the console is capable of, and that's just at launch with a more challenging architecture design that requires more care. Not like I don't think a 850gflops part or something around that couldn't impress in a console, because it could, but I figured E3 would at least challenge the perception that the Xbox One is as weak as some want to believe, and it more or less did so successfully.
 
No if about it. There is no downclock and there never was. What you saw at E3 is what the console is capable of, and that's just at launch with a more challenging architecture design that requires more care. Not like I don't think a 850gflops part or something around that couldn't impress in a console, because it could, but I figured E3 would at least challenge the perception that the Xbox One is as weak as some want to believe, and it more or less did so successfully.

Yeah, the idea MS would let sony have a 1tflop advantage is pretty ludicrous.

Judging by E3 the visual gap is going to be a lot less then people expected.
 
Yeah, the idea MS would let sony have a 1tflop advantage is pretty ludicrous.

Judging by E3 the visual gap is going to be a lot less then people expected.


Let me just leave this here again.

Xbox will be more powerful than the PS4: False
Xbox will be cheaper: False
Xbox will have Dual APU: False
Xbox specs have been upgraded: False
Xbox wont come with Kinect: False
Xbox got secret sauce: False
Xbox won't use 3GB of RAm for OS: False
PS4 will have online DRM also: False
PS4 will be always online too: False
PS4 will only have 4GB Ram: False
PS4 will include the PS Eye: False
PS4 will be bigger than Xbox because of GDDR5: False


Yeah sure MS wouldn't do any of these...
 
It never made much sense to me that they would downclock to improve yields. If anything, maybe the One was originally supposed to have 48 or 64MB of ESRAM and they had to cut that down. Or maybe it had the 18 CUs that the PS4 does but they disabled 6 of them. 800mhz shouldn't be a hard number to hit on a 28nm process with a 2 year old architecture.

They were targeting from at least last year 12 CU at 800mhz and 32MB of eSRAM.

If there is a downgrade (which I doubt) it'll be from that to something else.
 
Honestly reducing yield instead of downclocking is one of the best moves MS has made with this entire launch. I'm not going to buy an X1, but even if I dont 3rd party games are going to be designed around it's limitations. Bad enough next gen games are going to be designed around the 5gb's of available memory on the X1 as well as the lower powered cpu and gpu. A further downclock would have made the situation even worse.

Great move by MS to eat the cost of the lowered yield instead of lowering the specs. It's kind of unfortunate that this is something they cant publicize.
 
Yeah, the idea MS would let sony have a 1tflop advantage is pretty ludicrous.

Judging by E3 the visual gap is going to be a lot less then people expected.

Judging console performance based on launch games developed on dev kits with moving target specs isn't very wise.

I H8 Memes said:
Honestly reducing yield instead of downclocking is one of the best moves MS has made with this entire launch. I'm not going to buy an X1, but even if I dont 3rd party games are going to be designed around it's limitations. Bad enough next gen games are going to be designed around the 5gb's of available memory on the X1 as well as the lower powered cpu and gpu. A further downclock would have made the situation even worse.

Great move by MS to eat the cost of the lowered yield instead of lowering the specs. It's kind of unfortunate that this is something they cant publicize.

Yup, this is where the LCD kicks in. Multiplatform developers will develop with the Xbox One's limitations in mind, since they have to be certain their game will run on that platform.
 
Let me just leave this here again.

Xbox will be more powerful than the PS4: False
Xbox will be cheaper: False
Xbox will have Dual APU: False
Xbox specs have been upgraded: False
Xbox wont come with Kinect: False
Xbox got secret sauce: False
Xbox won't use 3GB of RAm for OS: False
PS4 will have online DRM also: False
PS4 will be always online too: False
PS4 will only have 4GB Ram: False
PS4 will include the PS Eye: False
PS4 will be bigger than Xbox because of GDDR5: False


Yeah sure MS wouldn't do any of these...



having a 1tflop disadvantage is quite a bit more drastic then the things you mentioned
 
Did anything at E3 run on Xbox One hardware?

Forza native 1080p 60fps
Ryse native 1080p 30fps
Killer Instinct native 1080p 60fps
Project Spark native 1080p 30fps
Fifa 2014 native 1080p 60fps

All of the above were running on actual Xbox One hardware.

Battlefield 4 is targeted at 1080p at 60fps, and wasn't running on actual xbox one hardware, but instead a pc debug environment designed to the console's specs. The same I believe was also true for Dead Rising 3. But personally, I don't really expect any drastic visual and performance differences between what was shown of either game at E3, and what we'll see at release on the Xbox One versions. Then again, these games are coming at launch, so I suppose I shouldn't completely rule out some changes, but, again, I just don't expect there to be anything drastic. In fact, Dead Rising 3 on final hardware is likely to perform even better than the E3 demo with pretty much the same visuals.

Dead Rising 3 apparently was, as the GB guys said there was an Xbox One sitting in front of the presenters that seemingly ran the game.

Hmm, didn't know this. Guess it's safe to say Dead Rising 3 was on actual hardware, too? Mind linking me to where they said that?
 
Let me just leave this here again.

Xbox will be more powerful than the PS4: False
Xbox will be cheaper: False
Xbox will have Dual APU: False
Xbox specs have been upgraded: False
Xbox wont come with Kinect: False
Xbox got secret sauce: False
Xbox won't use 3GB of RAm for OS: False
PS4 will have online DRM also: False
PS4 will be always online too: False
PS4 will only have 4GB Ram: False
PS4 will include the PS Eye: False
PS4 will be bigger than Xbox because of GDDR5: False


Yeah sure MS wouldn't do any of these...

Xbox can't be played offline: True False

=p
 
Let me just leave this here again.

Xbox will be more powerful than the PS4: False
Xbox will be cheaper: False
Xbox will have Dual APU: False
Xbox specs have been upgraded: False
Xbox wont come with Kinect: False
Xbox got secret sauce: False
Xbox won't use 3GB of RAm for OS: False
PS4 will have online DRM also: False
PS4 will be always online too: False
PS4 will only have 4GB Ram: False
PS4 will include the PS Eye: False
PS4 will be bigger than Xbox because of GDDR5: False


Yeah sure MS wouldn't do any of these...
will enjoy his xbox.
 
Judging console performance based on launch games developed on dev kits with moving target specs isn't very wise.



Yup, this is where the LCD kicks in. Multiplatform developers will develop with the Xbox One's limitations in mind, since they have to be certain their game will run on that platform.

well the way the games look at this early stage compared to the competition and the specs that we know about do paint a picture of the graphical difference being similar to this generation.

People were saying that the PS4 would 1080p 60fps and the X1 would be 940p 30fps etc

well BF4 has been confirmed 1080p 60 fps for both PS4 and X1, though I do expect the PS4 to have a better AA soultion and slighting better textures, and in my book thats a pretty small difference.
 
Let me just leave this here again.

Xbox will be more powerful than the PS4: False
Xbox will be cheaper: False
Xbox will have Dual APU: False
Xbox specs have been upgraded: False
Xbox wont come with Kinect: False
Xbox got secret sauce: False
Xbox won't use 3GB of RAm for OS: False
PS4 will have online DRM also: False
PS4 will be always online too: False
PS4 will only have 4GB Ram: False
PS4 will include the PS Eye: False
PS4 will be bigger than Xbox because of GDDR5: False


Yeah sure MS wouldn't do any of these...

Lol. When you put it like that...
 
well the way the games look at this early stage compared to the competition and the specs that we know about do paint a picture of the graphical difference being similar to this generation.

Not really. Wall Guy did not come to define the capabilities of gen 7 console games.

People were saying that the PS4 would 1080p 60fps and the X1 would be 940p 30fps etc

People were saying a lot of dumb things. Like I said before, how about we wait until we get games that are built from the ground up on finalized hardware before passing judgment on them.

well BF4 has been confirmed 1080p 60 fps for both PS4 and X1, though I do expect the PS4 to have a better AA soultion and slighting better textures, and in my book thats a pretty small difference.

BF4 was running on a PC, IIRC.
 
What the fuck is Spencer gonna say?

"Yeah man, we're having ESRAM yield issues out the ass, we won't have a snowball's chance in hell of filling all these preorders. Also the CPU is gonna get downclocked because we suck at architecture design on our first tries. Shit is HOT. Hopefully normal use won't warp the board and cause the video output to sever like last time."

No, he's going to lie out his teeth (for the moment) and pray that the fabrication issues resolve themselves in time for launch so they can pretend there was never a hiccup in the first place.
 
well the way the games look at this early stage compared to the competition and the specs that we know about do paint a picture of the graphical difference being similar to this generation.

People were saying that the PS4 would 1080p 60fps and the X1 would be 940p 30fps etc

well BF4 has been confirmed 1080p 60 fps for both PS4 and X1, though I do expect the PS4 to have a better AA soultion and slighting better textures, and in my book thats a pretty small difference.

The fact that BF4 is running at 1080p60 on both platforms is saying absolutely nothing about the (pretty sizeable) performance difference between the systems but that the development team targeted the game to run at that resolution and framerate even on Xbone.

I expect more stable framerates for many games on the PS4, that's probably one of the easiest and most important improvements we'll see aside of potentially slightly better texture quality and AA.

What downclock rumor?

CBOAT said there yields are under expectations, no biggie happens all the time in the electronic biz.

And this could prove to be very detrimental to the Xbone. It's certainly a "biggie" to Microsoft, low yields aren't exactly something that is cherished in the "electronic biz".
 
Not really. Wall Guy did not come to define the capabilities of gen 7 console games.



People were saying a lot of dumb things. Like I said before, how about we wait until we get games that are built from the ground up on finalized hardware before passing judgment on them.



BF4 was running on a PC, IIRC.

judging on all the information we know and my own gut feeling, I do think the PS4 will have better graphics across the board, 1st party titles will shine and 3rd party titles will look better on the PS4.
but I think difference wont be huge and it will be similar to this gen, I have not made my final judgement yet and will do game comparisons at launch to decide my purchase, but based on everything that has been exposed on the next gen systems this is where my opinions stands at the moment.

where does yours?
 
Cboat is stretching some stuff, at least when it comes to MS, nowadays. Considering everything is changing constantly, he is not as reliable.
 
The fact that BF4 is running at 1080p60 on both platforms is saying absolutely nothing about the (pretty sizeable) performance difference between the systems but that the development team targeted the game to run at that resolution and framerate even on Xbone.

I expect more stable framerates for many games on the PS4, that's probably one of the easiest and most important improvements we'll see aside of potentially slightly better texture quality and AA.



And this could prove to be very detrimental to the Xbone. It's certainly a "biggie" to Microsoft, low yields aren't exactly something that is cherished in the "electronic biz".

Well you could say the same thing about the PS3,What good is performance if it does not show in games?

and I to expect better framerates on PS4, like the 360 had this gen.
 
Man it would be hilarious if Xbone have this 'RROD ver 2.0' because of chip overheating like crazy.

All that would do is make Microsoft look incompetent and piss off a lot of people. Of my group of friends most of them have had to replace or send in their 360s because of it. It wasn't very funny.
 
The fact that BF4 is running at 1080p60 on both platforms is saying absolutely nothing about the (pretty sizeable) performance difference between the systems but that the development team targeted the game to run at that resolution and framerate even on Xbone.

I expect more stable framerates for many games on the PS4, that's probably one of the easiest and most important improvements we'll see aside of potentially slightly better texture quality and AA.



And this could prove to be very detrimental to the Xbone. It's certainly a "biggie" to Microsoft, low yields aren't exactly something that is cherished in the "electronic biz".

Why you quoting me?
 
well the way the games look at this early stage compared to the competition and the specs that we know about do paint a picture of the graphical difference being similar to this generation.

People were saying that the PS4 would 1080p 60fps and the X1 would be 940p 30fps etc

well BF4 has been confirmed 1080p 60 fps for both PS4 and X1, though I do expect the PS4 to have a better AA soultion and slighting better textures, and in my book thats a pretty small difference.

Do not judge system capabilities based on launch software.


Cboat is stretching some stuff, at least when it comes to MS, nowadays. Considering everything is changing constantly, he is not as reliable.

Even if it's running hot I dont see them having the same problems as the red ring disaster. The X1 box is very big and it has a massive fan so I dont think overheating will be a problem again.
 
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