Sure, I meant before we got the sdk docs. After that it made little sense to speculate (some did, balanced at 14, clocks not final, etc..). We had a pretty wild range even for scorpio, like a triple sku, a streaming stick, $99 odd-less xb1s, and last minute upgrade to 10TF. That was all crazy and it was the official technical thread, and it continued after MS literally announced it was a single sku at 6TF. We had excursions into crazy distribution media before ps4/xb1 launch, but it wasn't anything close to a concensus.
Ram amount always remain a reasonable question, the target can be fluid, since the ram market is unstable and they can increase it as late as 9 months before launch.
Personally I really didn't think we'd go back to >200W and the unveiling of the first navi cards TDP made me go back to 10TF absolute max. But from that point, it took two seconds looking at the SeriesX case that everything falls into place. If they have a high wattage compromise, we still predicted it was possible but less likely for marketing and BOM reasons. The concensus on technical limits still apply.
Once we established rational limits based on the general technical knowledge of posters here, it really narrow down the possibilities. There can still be surprises!
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