SONY let AMD do the R&D for the technology. SONY only "designed" the internals. SONY got a group of AMD tech they were considering for the PS4. Their R&D budget was essentially just trying out different AMD parts and seeing whichone had the best balance of power and low BoM. Think of PC gamers. They get to pick and decide which parts they want to add to their PC. They don't actually create their own CPU and GPU.

Microsoft had to create a large part of the tech that goes into the Xbone because the eSRAM and move engines bullshit is unconventional. No one else is doing any R&D on it, so they had to pay for it out of their own pockets. That's why the R&D budget was so high. In the end, SONY still came up with a much more powerful machine that's also much more efficient both in terms of power usage and memory utilization.

LOL... Still living in the past... AHAHAHAHAHA... You're just like some whore 80-year-old who was pretty when she was 20 but can't accept that she's now an unwanted, wrinkly hag.

@I_can_haz said:

@xhawk27 said:

So I guess MS won the HD race last gen. Also if the PS3 wasn't sold as a blu-ray player that I bet counted for more than 10 million units the PS3 would have been done for.

So much butthurt and shitty excuses. BTW 360 came in last place lastgen despite launching a year earlier than PS3 and being $200 for a significant amount of time. Let that sink in a bit and you'll realize why Xbone doesn't stand a chance this gen. They botched their launch and came out more expensive with the weaker console this gen, it's no wonder they are getting destroyed. When you realize that XPOSbone is pretty much dead outside the US you'll see why a PS3-style comeback is impossible for Xbone. Nicaragua and China won't save the XPOSBone this time lems.

3 Million PS4s shipped >>>> XPOSBone + 360's 1.1 million

LOL... Excellent ownage. Also, XBL is a fucking wasteland now. Everyone is on PSN. Massive amount of money they lost in lower subscribers. It also reduces the amount of multi-console buyers, since very few want to pay for both GOLD and PS+. Who would have thought that MS's own greedy practice is biting them in the ass? I just love poetic justice.

A former AMD employee already told us that MS spent $3 billion on just the APU. The total project including all the marketing and review bribing probably cost over $10 billion.

Microsoft is crying about it. They expected to sell 500 million consoles. LOL... Even SONY wasn't this delusional at the start of last gen.

Can't flop as much as Xbone did.

And I believe that companies should use their money carefully. How could you spend $3 billion and create a vastly inferior machine than someone who spent $5 million in R&D. It makes no sense.

I said it before, and I'll say it again. The only way for MS to rebound from their current pisspoos state is to remove multiplayer paywall.

Online gaming is a fucking wasteland on the Xbone. Everyone would rather sub get PS+.

Of course, doing that would forego billions in potential revenue and profits, but that's the only way to save the Xbox brand. Unfortunately, MS lacks patience and dedication. If you asked MS if they wanted $10 today or $10,000 tomorrow, they'd pick the first option.

This is a whole load of bullshit. Yeah, the Xbone is harder to code for than the PS4 is, but that is more than compensated through the army of top coders that 3rd parties use to get their games up to snuff on the Xbone. 3rd parties let their shittiest 3 coders do a shit portjob on the PS4 and rely on the PS4's brute strength to bulldoze through their unoptimized code.

Devs use every single optimization trick to get the Xbone running "acceptably". The Xbone is already hitting its peak. The PS4 has barely begun utilizing its full power. When a 3rd party like Kojima studios tries to atleast utilize PS4's full power, THEN you'll see big differences. 720p on Xbone vs 1080p on PS4. PS4 runs at stable 60 FPS while Xbone runs at 30-60 variable FPS. Xbone has vastly lower graphical settings.

Until 3rd parties stop their parity bullshit, you'll never see the true power gap between the two consoles, and that's what MS would rather want. They rather you think the Xbone isn't that much weaker than the PS4 when the two are generations apart in power. It's sad, but all the more reason to cheer that Xbox is failing. MS is a bad influence on the gaming industry and it's best they leave.

LOL... MS is a quitter. They ain't gonna fight if the odds aren't in their favor. They're gonna abandon the Xbone and release the Xbox TWO in 2-3 years.

MGS4 was a 12/10, UC2 was an 11.5/10 and UC3 was an 11/10. Take off 2 and you get those scores.