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To be a successful executive at this level it's not enough to wear many hats, you need to wear many T-shirts, as well.
That's a better result than I was expecting.
Your boy Myerson is still in there though. Looks like he is Phil's boss.
It's the cool thing to do. I was joining in!
I'm not particularly worthy of respect! Just be careful what you say about 1080p and frame rates tho ...
I think that the esarm is fine in principle, and a good idea given the cost constraints imposed. The problem seems to be that there's not enough of it, and due to the memory interface to it there could only be 16 ROPs.
Actually, I think that when developers come to terms with it they'll get some very good performance from it, but that will involve using buffers that pack everything into the space carefully (I'm thinking of sebbbi's comments here and Humus' excellent presentation currently feeding a thread in the tech forum).
The trouble for Xbone is that games may need to be built around these frame buffer arrangements, from content creation upwards, and that will take time. It may be a year or two before games built entirely on final hardware are shipping, and until then all we're likely to see is the size limitation and 16 ROPs failing to make use of all that juicy bandwidth.
Meanwhile, the PS4 is having a ball running games that started out being developed on PC's with very similar frame buffer sizes and easily accessible bandwidth.
It's going to be a bumpy ride for XBone for a while ...
He admitted himself that he made some mistakes at times, like every single human out there -for instance, not making Guitar Hero an Xbox exclusive, which now would make sense, but back then it'd be a huge system seller.
As a very, very wise person says...
"You have to make mistakes. It's important to make mistakes... and... I still do them all the time. Everyone gets it wrong. It is important to get it wrong."
The mistake was thinking that people needed +3GB of ram for "apps", because apps are all the rage now. At the architecture panel they said that they wanted the xbox to be capable of supporting future trends, and apps were one of those.
That thinking forced them to have 8GB of memory, which forced them to chose ddr3 because of uncertainty of module size and price, and not gddr which they had used in their last generation in the xbox360.
That choice for ddr3 forced them to have a large on die cache, which took away from a larger more powerful gpu.
There was this idea that being able to support the next huge emerging trend would be a finacial win for them, we will have to see how that pans out.
So far it not panned out and its just the great selection of software esclusives and not the wonderful environent that supports apps that is getting people to buy.
That thinking forced them to have 8GB of memory, which forced them to chose ddr3 because of uncertainty of module size and price, and not gddr which they had used in their last generation in the xbox360.
That choice for ddr3 forced them to have a large on die cache, which took away from a larger more powerful gpu.
There was this idea that being able to support the next huge emerging trend would be a finacial win for them, we will have to see how that pans out.
So far it not panned out and its just the great selection of software esclusives and not the wonderful environent that supports apps that is getting people to buy.
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That's great news!! I think the Xbox is now where it should be to begin with. Developers are very happy with his designation as new boss of the Xbox division.
Albert Penello, Xbox Division Head of Product Planning:
Phil Harrison, Microsoft Corporate VP:
Peter Moore, Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer:
Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft Chief of Staff for Devices and Studios Group.
Scott Warner, Visceral Games Design Director:
Brad Welch, 343 Industries Design Director:
Justin Berembaum, 505 Games VP BD and Strategic Relations:
Rob Davis, Sony Santa Monica Senior Designer:
.
Cliff Bleszinski (not sure what his title is anymore, or if he has one):
Mike Henry, Twisted Pixel Lead Engineer:
.
Dan Teasdale, No Goblin co-founder:
Scott Brodie, Heart Shaped Games Founder:
Harri Manninen, Rocket Pack Games Co-Founder:
Brian Provinciano, Vblank Entertainment Founder:
Bungie, Development Studio:
NinjaBeeGames, Development Studio:
Phil Spencer, the man himself:
Agreed.
I'm pleased. Now let's see what's his plans are. E3 will be interesting.
Tommy McClain
Iirc, the decision to use DDR3 came before the decision to use 8GB of main ram.
Over the life of the system, MS could move 2133 DDR3 over to 2133 DDR4 (at potentially 32-bit/chip) and along with the esram that would shrink even better than logic, that would give them a long term strategy for cost reduction that GDDR5 couldn't ever hope to match.
Of course, it might not work out quite how MS planned, but mainstream memory and integrated and shrink friendly esram is certainly a long term strategy that they've put some thought into.
Definitely. MS is misusing the strength of the XOne architecture currently, because it's saddled with Kinect.
That strength is a low cost and "good enough" power. It should have a MSRP sans Kinect of something like $339 right now.
Is that even good enough, or will people still choose to spend a little more on more power? MS had better hope that answer is no.
When or if things change, we'll see. Will they ditch Kinect as soon as E3?
But anyways I'm digressing into business discussion. It's just such a fundamental point I think it bears repeating.
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