Why keep bringing this stuff up. Makes them sound so desperate. Do it first then tell how much stronger your system is.

I have a feeling once November comes, and my vacation kicks in and I am playing KillZone and Killer Instinct I wont care about 10-40% difference, as I will be enjoying my games. Whats really funny I doubt I will play either next gen system more than my WiiU, as Wind Waker was one game I missed back in the day, and I am hooked. Un like a lot of gamers here I do not have the pleasure to game more than 2 hours a day if I am lucky since married life sucks lol.

LMAO i cant stop laughing at people saying this is bad, how much more do you want to prove your insecurities you have with the PS4? Please stfu this is nothing but pure bliss, NOV 22nd greatness arrives. Best games, Best features, best experience.

You won't see this on lauch titles it will be the second generation of xb1 games that will take advantage of this.

The spin some people are trying to put on this is beyond idiotic.

anyways...This type of thing always happens. Once they drivers evolve, the manufacture can then up clocks and get more speed out of the console.

i think they will have alot of problems at launch that's for sure

this sum it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Im not a fanboy for either console, but don't all these last minute tweaks and broad sweeping changes make it seem like Microsoft just wasn't ready for next gen to start? Seems like they were kinda caught with their pants down with the negative reaction after E3 and they've been trying to patch things up ever since.

as the OS's get optimized and streamlined in the future it will open up more power for BOTH consoles this is what happened least gen also ... the ps4 also reserves power some of its functions

Sweet. I like that they keep tweeking the system for the better. I just hope it runs smoothly at launch.

Lets explain this for the COD heads in the room. They are NOT magically adding a 10% more powerful GPU, they are just transferring power that is being used by something else. The car still only has 200 horsepower. They just removed the AC system to free up another 2 ponies. There, now you fanboys can go towel off since you guys got all wet.

The failure rate it going to be through the roof. Will buy a Xbox One in a few years after a price cut, re-design and when worthwhile exclusives arrive. During that time I will be more than happy with my PS4.

LOL. This happens with every console. Guess what? Sony will ****UNLOCK***** more ram for developers, more processing power, and more GPU! It's called optimizing code which has happened since the dawn of computers.

Sounds good to me but it doesn't tie up with the split GPU/extra bits rumour. Will be interesting to see how they answer this.

Having played all of the launch games and multiplats available at Eurogamer I'm quite happy already and trust me when I say nobody who buys an X1 will be dissapointed. Forza and Battlefield 4 were simply glorious and Ryse and CoD ghosts weren't far behind. Battlefield especially I could rant on abouts it's excellence all day - that is going to rock.

Xbox One is not underpowered. Far from it as its going to be at least 6x better than my 360 and I'm still reeling at how they got GTA5 out of 512mb ram on 2005 tech. Sonys PS4 might have a bit more grunt but based on what I have seen it won't be 50% or even 30% better - no way. Even Killzone wasn't any more graphically impressive than what was on X1. The PS4 games just don't back up the media claims. The small differences won't matter to me or most punters.

Both consoles are going to be belters. Purchase either or both and you will be happy. No need for people to be such jerks on here about it all.

So they plan on freeing up this extra power reserved for the Kinect in the future?? Cool for Xbones, but it's still lagging behind the PS4 and there is now confirmation that th Xbon One was created with 720p to 900p in mind. The approach of enhancing the system upscaler all but proves this and points to the obvious conservative approach taken by Microsoft when building the system. So...PS4TW?

Round & round in circles.

Built your console around Kinect? We can use that for GPU instead.
Advertised snap-in as a feature? We can use that for GPU instead.

All that balance.
Again this comes after "specs don't matter" & Harrison's "only game experiences matter".

The hilarity of it is, in the end you wind up with what you didn't want: "Just a 360 with higher specs."

This is a good thing for those who don't care for Microsoft's image or Kinect/snap in support.

& even after all of the up-clocking & disabling, it still ends up weaker than the competitor's machine.
Should have stuck to their guns because it's just hurting their image.

Unlock the POWAH of the cloud. Taste the rainbow, feel the rainbow. This pretty much prove that the developers are already maxing out the Xbone just in the beginning of it's life cycle. 900p and 30FPS or 720p and 60FPS on native resolution are the best they can do on the Xbone. Software upscaling to 1080p is pretty much the same as 720p compare to 1080p native resolution. Noticeably big difference.

Omg, they never stop. This is so funny. So much denial it's borderline delusional. They're like the child that gets caught doing something bad and they have a lie and excuse for every single thing you ask them about even though you already know the truth about what happened.

You can't hardly blame them though. They are trying to say anything they can to try to close the gap in performance to hopefully convince some of their less informed potential customers. It's just very sad at this point.

I swear im going to stop clicking Xbone articles, its always full of bs and Microsoft trying so hard to act as if they are evening the playing field with Ps4.

Yes the powahhhhhhhhh of the Clowdddddd
The power of upclocking bcus we can!!!!!!
And freeing up the powah of kinect!!!!!!!!

Microsoft is really on a roll and imo an embarrassment to the gaming community. Im so happy so many ppl flipped and neogaf and such are having field days everyday with the pr bs that comes out their mouths!!!!!

but but but but what happened to the "perfect balance" smh these guys do more 180's than t rex!!!!!!!

Ryse (900p), Killing Instinctive (720p), Battlefield 4 (720p), Dead Rising 3(720p) and Forza 5: "We’re using 100% of this console".

XO technically is very discrete :/

LOL they are scrambling doing everything they can. Microsoft must KNOW their hardware is lacking a bit

Mh... the more i read about this console, the more it seems a "beta" console. It seems built in a hurry to come out in time, ready to be modified during its lifecycle (things to do in the start, usually), lot of changes with the famous "180s" and then what?
Why couldn't they build a powerful console ready to be used with all the right things since the start? I don't know if i'm going to buy this in the future, but i can think about it when it's out of the beta phase (1? 2? 3 years maybe?).... and of course when it's cheaper and there will be games that i could like.

10% reserved? Ouch.

So say goodbye to Kinect.

I believe it is too early to talk about things like "ps4 is much stronger than X1", but ...
first rising clock gpu and cpu, and now more resources will be available for the GPU. Not wanting to be judgmental, but it seems that microsoft regretted some choices in X1 and X1 seems that really going to have to chase after the PS4 in the category "Raw power for games" given the recent changes at the last minute.

All I have to say is MS sounds like a shady salesman now. Why wasn't all of this corrected to begin with, they have already shown their true colors yet xbots refuse to see the truth. And don't even get me started on how the X1 can't be stood vertically lmao, what a joke.

I hope you guys understand what this means. It's unlocking the max performance that was already there, that's a key difference. The Xbox didn't grow 10% more GPU power. You have to remove 10% from the 1.31 TFlops.
--> 1.18TFlops at launch (assuming they really free that 10% up later) so in reality XBOX one is not actually getting 10% GPU boost from the 1.31, but rather from the 1.18.

Because they can.

Nearly as bad as 900p crytek lol

Well it's good for future Xbox One owners to recoup up to 10 percent, though it probably will be less than the full 10 percent, for actual video games.

Of course this can probably only happen if Kinect isn't used, though perhaps they could recoup a partial amount if Kinect is barely used.

Overall though this doesn't make the Xbox One any faster, just lets it use more of what it has for video games. It basically just neuters the disadvantage (sometimes) the Xbox One had versus the PS4 because of the resources dedicated to Kinect.

So in other words it doesn't make the Xbox One any faster versus the PS4 (thus the raw power gap is UNCHANGED), but the effectual power between the two closed by up to 10 percent...IF Kinect isn't used.

They have not come across any "additional power". They are simply locking away 10% of the power to be used later. The damage control keeps coming.

This is not a new GPU, they are giving more of their same GPU. The PS4 GPU is superior. For Microsoft to equal PS4 power they must develop a new console.

oh no, now misterx is going to see this as the second coming of christ or something...

I just love all the arm chair engineers and developers in these comment sections. Hilarious.

I have a headache xx
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Makes you think, why they decided to do it NOW. Because they know that if they don't do it, they will be behind?

This is similar to what Sony did with the PS3. Originally the OS used a lot of RAM preventing it from being used with games. As they reduced the memory footprint of the OS over the course of the generation, they gave the memory they reclaimed back to the developers.

I bet eventually Microsoft will allow developers to forego the Kinect requirement so that they can use all the processing power for graphics later on when Kinect has (possibly) ceased to be a talking point.

so far nothing really impresses me on the X1. i loved killer instinct as a kid but i think it could be done on the 360 if they toned down the particle effects a bit. waiting on screens of that new 2014 halo to really see what the first parties can do on the X1. also a remake of halo 2 would probably make me get an X1 regardless. getting a PS4 first though.

I worry the architecture is unnecessarily too complex to develop for. Maybe time with finalized dev kits and tools will help aid the process. MS talks about balance, developers talk about PS4 ease of use.

Here is the REAL problem MS faces, that Sony can ALSO optimize their system. The hardware mold has already been cast! The cat-is-out-of-the-bag PS4 is significantly more powerfull. This is being reported over and over again from developers.

Any keen person knows MS needs to cover their hadware disadvantages with great PR spin. If you don't see this then your just misleading yourself.

Does PS4 having better hardware mean the Xbox is doomed? Of course not! X1 will do great, but it needs to fight a different fight then the hardware battle, because that's a loosing one for it.

Don't believe me YouTube search "Michinima ps4 s more power than X1"

I'm not sure MS didn't bother to pack their console with enough power to begin with.

They must be really desperate if they want to use now the Kinect and apps graphics resources lol

Remember when this Nelson dude said he can't wait for the truth to come out. Guess he found out the truth now and he isn't happy :)

A lot of Sony haters for sure.

I Love how you guys Love Microsoft

Wow all this power being unleashed and then the power of the cloud. This will make it on par with the Titan...
Can the developers handle this amount of raw power ??
;)

I don't care too much about power. Just give me the best online service around and I'll buy the console!

What a joke. Just more dumb lies. The Xbox 180 will never be close to being as powerful as the PS4.

Terribly misleading title...they are only talking about letting developers have some of the power that is currently reserved for the OS....

the Xbone has a 1.31Tflop GPU....10% of that is currently reserved for the OS...leaving developers with about 1.18TFlops for games...

They are talking about giving some of that back in the future...

What this article actually means is that the gap between the PS4 and the Xbone is actually bigger than originally thought..."unlocking" ; power would simply bring it closer back to the paper specs

its too late to change anything now
will only mess up the system even more than it is now

I made my own decision. I will invest in a better PC, this so called next gen consoles is nothing more than a PC wanna be. I do not buy consoles only to play 4-5 really good exclusive games.

So the Fuck what. Besides PS4 has the big edge.
Besides i'm buying a PS4 I don't give a shit about XB1.

I've been done with Xbox since 2010 when mine RROD.

I'm reading wrong but the devs can use only 1.18TFLOPS of the GPU power right now?

BEEP BEEP! Vehicle reversing.....

So XB1 is even less powerful than the almighty PS4, what is now 50-60% powerful? If this were true, there would be no comparing ps4 games to Xb1. But if you look at the games we don't see that at all. Something's not right.

Also, DF said this weekend, we will get the rest of the interview.

Come on with this crap...

smh.. Oh well, it wont affect me any.. Not buying this until they step their game up

" Yes everything we showed at E3 and Gamescom was on kits. From my point of view the development is coming along well and with the optimizations we have put in, I am pretty confident the final game will look better than what we showed at E3. I even had to open the cupboard to prove it to some guys from Guerilla who didn’t believe me. At the demo stations our kits were on top of the cupboard directly connected to the screens, so no way we could have done anything else other than run on kits.” KZSF is 1080p MP only!! How is a 1.3TF Sp? Having the best looking games.

If I want GPU power; I go play on PC.

For a company downplaying power they sure talk alot about it.

But Didnt Major nelson show pics of xbox 1s ready for november?

I wonder how does this affect the complete life of an Xbox 1 console? If at all. If this does affect the life of an Xbox 1 console, is it worth it... will we be able to see a difference?

So the XB1 has a Rev limiter in place on the GPU is like one on a tuned car? I figure when the tech-heads at MS finished are optimizing, the extra rpm will be unlocked.

That's what it what it sounds like they're doing. I guess...

Overclock GPU until RROD all the way !!

Xbone is problems waiting to happen..crashes and blue screens etc... I can't wait to hear all you guys complain about it and say that you should have got a PS4 instead

Micro$oft is so desperate... First... The Illusion of the Cloud... Second... dGPU.... Third... Now this...

I smell RLOD the 2nd coming.

It will be in the form of DLC

If thats true than why in every conference their games was running on a PC?

By unlocking do they mean we'll get it to work?

It seems a lot of ppl don't understand this news ill put it in caps in hopes ppl notice it and not make stupid assumptions

THE GPU IS STILL 1.3tfps THEY ARE JUST SAYING AT THE MOMENT THE XBONE IS ONLY ABLE TO USE 1.1tfps FOR GAMES AND THEY WANT TO HAVE THE FULL 1.3 FOR GAMES

It's not going to decrease the gap to the ps4s power it just means the gap was bigger than first thought.

This is getting RIDICULOUS now...

Captain Kirk, "I need more powuh Scotty".

Scotty, "I'm givin' her all she's got Captain"!

Captain Kirk, "But what about the powuh of the cloud"?

Scotty, "Sir that's not a cloud-- that's a f'ing BLACK HOLE"!

Suddenly, the Xbox One-- erm-- USS Enterprise implodes upon itself as it simply disappears from the universe as we know it.

Don't laugh fellas-- this could really happen if Microsoft keeps "tweaking" the Xbox One until it "can't take it any more"-- hahahaha!!!

I just hope MS can get good exclusive developers to make jaw dropping games, Because I know PS4 will have their power houses already on deck.

so it is already slower + 10% for the kenect...

MS communique to devs:
Just pretend that fricking POS Kinect was useless and unnecessary, then use the resources that POS was hogging up. Instant moar Poweruz! Finally, MS want to make it clear the Kinect is an essential part of the XBone DNA.

Too late to my party X1. Wont be buying you until you drop your price or i win the lotto.

I can't wait for this bad boy. Just sold my fat ps3 for 80 dollars which will go for extra x1 control. MS Unlocking more power for devs can only be a good thing no mattter how you slice it.

So, it's disproven when they LIE through there goddam teeth about TEH CLOUD adding extra horsepower & graphical capabilities...So now, they are just gonna magically UNLOCK more power....The question is, why did they have it LOCKED in the 1st place? 1 month of launch & there f^cking with the schematics of there machine???? Wow, sounds like 360's 99% fault rate with the RROD problem, may be beaten by it's successor....So another 3-4 yrs of NON-STOP faulty hardware....Do there people designing & producing this thing, even know what the f%ck there doing? Me no think so.... This is the machine you get, when an AMerican company, hires Mexican electrical engineers fresh off the border run truck, with 3 weeks of TAFE training, to design the innards of the console, then these plans are sent to the manufacturing plants in China & India, where the staff building the thing, can't even speak English (let alone American)......This is a screw up, if ever there has been a monumental screw up....This thing comes out in November with an almost worldwide launch...& there still making design changes...I truly hope this machine folds MS's console division & they are beaten out of the console business by TRUE gamers that refuse to buy this thing, I won't be touching it....I want MS out of the business, stick to your shit OS systems c$cksocks.....Much prefer Sony, Nintendo, & maybe Valve as a new player (although I'm skeptical about that fat ponce Newell)....The ultimate would be to see MS die a horrible death, & for Sega to rise up from the ashes, to there former MD/Genesis glory days.... I would be over the moon to have my Sony machine accompanied by a Sega machine...

My God how stupid can you fucks be. This is all hype and shit to get you fucks to buy the crap and trash the other which is the same crap. It is the same shit talk that happens every time a console is release. They take all of you for a ride.

false title, that 10% gpu power is already reserved for os/kinect functions and they might be able to reduce some in the future that is all.

So it pretty much points to rumors being true at this point that the Xbone is actually even weaker than previously thought.

Since this is a software tweak & only possible when disabling Kinect not adding specs,
Kinect uses 10% of the specs before the tweak, which means the numbers that they use for games are even lower (drained by Kinect).

So the console will be weaker than the 1.31Tflops it was promised because of Kinect and Apps, Yikes that sucks.

here we go again.....

Every movie or cartoon I have ever watched when someone yelled "Increase the Power" something bad always happened...

Every movie or cartoon that I have watched that said "Increase the power" something bad usually happened to the machine after...

I can almost hear the fire sirens because some flats are burned down by overheating One consoles...

The Xbox One is the Mitt Romney of the video game industry......

at this point microsoft might aswell announce that they're very worried about the coming generation and what SONY will do to them.