These are the people wanting to work with Microsoft, but cannot put their foot forward because that company is not telling them what they want to know. This is not consumers we are talking about. The developers need to know these things, largely in advance, before we need to find out about them.

Microsoft's console comes out in 2 months, and smaller developers are still hazy about their policies?? It should have been happening over the past few months/years. Not right now.

Xbox could fail a few times (not saying it will but hypothetically) and Microsoft not feel anything but their shareholders would see something dragging them down and cut it off. Shareholders want to continue to make more money and grow the business.

Now from a purely company level side I think Microsoft will benefit from Balmer departing. His leadership hasn't exactly done wonders for the company as their surface failed, they have lost track in the mobile market by focusing on a loosing web dominance idea (trying to over take google as a search engine which lead to Apple rising in the smart phone market. Balmer lauched at the idea of the iphone), Xbox didn't do well (understandable though), Xbox 360 RROD was a costly thing for Microsoft, Xbox One launch didn't go well Windows 8 isn't being well received. It is lucky the Windows market is a monopoly of sorts but if they are not careful a new system can come in under them. Microsoft needs to get back to what it was like years ago.

If they are worth so much, why not build a better machine to at least be on Par with the competition instead of blowing smoke?

Why do we have to hear all the BS and talk?

The old saying goes, put your money where your mouth is, not put your mouth where the money is"

MS may not be a sinking ship, but they are getting some pressures to unload the Xbox division.

It's the weaker of the twoweak systems. Don't believe the hype. Both consoles use a custom AMD combo chip designed for tablets. Once the software ships with the hardware we will have a better idea what the difference is between the two.

@ Rhinoceros
Once again let me correct you Xbots.
Microsoft is not worth over 100 billion dollars
It's 69.96 billion

http://www.celebritynetwort...

@HardTileD_ "When you look at it, Xbox One has a better designed hardware with better data flow then PS4."

i laughed. honestly. must be that hypervisor huh?

HardTileD_ 1h ago
HYPER V!
Hypervisor and more, yes indeed!

Hardware Tiling (PRT or Tiled Resrouces) which AMD and John Carmack praises as the next big thing in graphics development. Xbox One's Data Move Engines and ESRAM fast cache for extreme low latency and data flow facilitation. Hardware support for Azure through the DMAs...yeah that much more!

Just make sure you inform yourself by watching the Hot Chips event on Sunday and Monday. Microsoft and AMD will be there.

"i laughed. honestly. must be that hypervisor huh?"

Exactly, goes to show how much you know.

JackStraw 47m ago
Re: HYPER V!
enlighten me on what's in the playstation 4? i'll wait.

HardTileD_ 27m ago
Re: HYPER V!
My arsenal is full my friend, you "enlighten" me?!....If you can.

JackStraw 0m ago
Re: HYPER V!
exactly lol. you made a comparison with no knowledge of what's inside the ps4. you can't possibly know because little has been revealed about it other than what mark cerny divulged in february. nice try though.

as for partially resident textures, it's not exclusive to x1. dunno why you would think that. it's simply a new feature in dx11.2, but it's also in ogl4.4, and is supported by all newer amd gpus (which both consoles have).

yes, the xbox one will more than likely have lower latency than the ps4, but the ps4 also has a much higher bandwidth. the move engines simply make things easier on the xbox one's processors to make up for this.

the xbox one is a factory with a lot of quick workers that work quickly to get the job done, effectively taking the hassle (burden of energy) off of all the workers, and achieving its goal.

the ps4 is a factory with a few brute workers that work as hard (but as efficient) as they can to get the job done, effectively making the job require more energy, but less work in achieving its goal.

it's pretty easy to see that the xbox one will likely have much less power consumption as well based on their design.

does any of this mean it has better designed hardware or better data flow? not necessarily. there are several factors that you're not taking into account that must be looked at before determining which one is better at either of these things. and seeing as not much has been released about the hardware design about the ps4, you really can't accurately compare them.

Holy crap, HardTiled.

You don't have a freaking clue, do you?

There's so much more information about the PS4 than what you say, and that info tells us the PS4 has far better data flow. It's got faster RAM that's better for gaming(whether or not it's more or the same AMOUNT seems to be up in the air at this time). Everything else aside, this alone would make your statement false, but there's plenty there to increase the difference between the two in the PS4's favor.

Where are your "legit opinions" from, and what makes them more credible than the sources these "Sherlocks" get their info from? Which, by the way, tends to be the architect behind the PS4, and the company producing the hardware for BOTH consoles.

Net worth is more important than market value. End.

As for a "sinking ship," the inference is NOT the company as a whole, but the gaming division. If it doesn't do better, investors will have it gone. So no, the XB1 can't fail any number of times. If it fails once, expect Microsoft to be out of the console business.

Geez, just when I think Xbox fanboys can't get any more delusional...