I'd not get banned. I'd keep the account and then trumpet my awesomeness when the specs were made official and I was proven right, linking back to all my previous posts where I was correct and naming and shaming all my detractors.
ha, well I don't think you'd put yourself in that position either. So I'm not sure if this is technically true
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Huh? What's a self-ban then? He requests to have his account banned so he doesn't get dragged into posting when he doesn't want to, and then requests the ban is lifted when he is ready to return?
Yes. As I understand it, members will ban themselves as a method of self control. I believe Stinkles would self ban before any major event; I guess the whole loose lips sinks ships bit.
One thing is for certain, MS trademarked "Power your Dreams" logo and put die shot on twitter right before Sony's CES press conference. That to me spells confidence, and since I can only go by what we officially have from AMD's side, then for me its pretty clear.
Yea that's why I continue to encourage everyone to stick with talking shop and not to waste their time picking apart PR or insider claims (also a big reason why I post here and not at other forums). You can't beat physics and even if you are talking up incorrect points, it doesn't matter. Scientists postulate all sorts of theories that get shot down; we all learn from it. Secret Sauce/Magic is really a synonym for, "I don't want to spend the mental energy to figure out how they did it", just call it magical and pretend it's going to beast shit up.
Series S will define the generation.
hmmm. Improbable. If timelines are being followed and regression test information is accurate, Lockhart will not be ready for launch in 2020, so understanding that, it cannot the baseline unit.
Then in August of the same year, clearly during the later part of their production cycle, they announced
revised clocks for the GPU with a 6.6% boost. This was
3 (three) months before release.
Then in September of the same year, they announced
revised clocks for the CPU with a 9.4% boost. This was
2 (two) months before release.
I can shed some light on this, and I've said it multiple times before, and this will be my last time (for a while).
a) they were super behind in nearly every aspect of Xbox One.
b) E3 demo was entirely faked basically (my understanding, could have been a poor paraphrase), the OS team had to work crazy hours to implement in the OS what they showed on E3 (Kinect gestures etc). OS was shipped literally 1-2 weeks before launch.
c) Hardware was behind, original goal was to have an internal PSU(like the 360 S etc), but due to time limitations and fear of RROD, they rushed the design of Xbox One to be overly cooled.
d) Fan was way over done, PSU moved outside.
Albert Penello then reveals at a much later time
a) you can only change things this close to reveal if you have additional cooling capacity available (check)
b) yields are better on the SOC than expected (check)
the combination of these two together is what allows for last minute upclocks.
he continues with paraphrase: But pricing and design of a console and all it's hardware is all known _well_ in advance. That means every single part, clock, chip, power, cooling, is all known is advance of any sort of production. So you _must_ have designed the console in mind with tolerances put into place to allow for this.
IMO, Xbox One was a Frankenstein of a project. TV, Kinect, Self Published Content, Set Top Device, etc. They were cramming in way too much into this device thinking they could beat out the market (in non gaming categories). When you have so many cooks in the kitchen, you're bound to have inefficiencies and slack of which you can tighten up before launch. Think of it like realizing you cannot have any chance to win the race with your sports sedan against a sports car, so you then tear out the interior that makes it luxurious to reduce weight to make it run faster. When the goals are much more straight forward with less requirements, you're already running super lean. You can't just take a tuned formula 1 engine and with a month before race time expect it to run 2000 RPM higher than redline suddenly without blowing the engine.
So all these things considered; if the price point is going to be very high, I'm not sure if we can expect either companies to build in tolerances. It's probably going to be cut as razor edge as it can be