As I wrote above...
Netflix uses star names for consoles.
PS3 is Rigel.
Unless Netflix somehow is involved in AMD development of XBox One APU, these theories are best discussed at MisterXMedia...
Its a coincidence.
Netflix uses star names on consoles.
PS3 is Rigel, for example.
Yes.
The PS3 was codenamed Rigel in Netflix in 2014.
Pure coincidence.
@ATi_Elite:
Let me correct that for you:
"OK Elite Dangerous is fun, im in teh Beta but SC is promising way more stuff than ED. way more stuff"
@NewMonday: Google Street View? ;o)
I think Microsoft was caught with their panties down.
Noone expected Sony to use GDDR5 RAM for the entire system. Even fewer expected 8GB of it jn a unified architecture.
Up until the reveal of system specs, most people thought that Sony would go for 4GB DDR3.
So I think that Microsoft was convinced they had a winner. 8GB DDR3 + 32GB superfast ESRAM vs. an estimate of Playstation's 4GB DDR3 + some GBs of video memory.
Didn't say they were doomed, I said that they were panicking. Big difference.
The Xbox One sells well, just not well enough. It's by no means a failure, but it's far from the automatic success story Microsoft (and the game developers) thought it'd be just a year ago.
Back then, the Playstation 4 wasn't given a hope in Hell to reclaim the throne.
And yet, here we are...
They must be desperate to get rid of their stock.
To me this is a clear sign amongst many, that the Xbox one simply doesn't sell.
Few retailers would lower the price of a new product if it was selling like hotcakes, of which the PS4 is a prime example.
This is not a single occurrence, which leads me to my conclusion - too many retailers have lowered the prices too quickly. And even Microsoft tried to persuade people by throwing in a free ...
...and that means absolutely nothing.
Where is "the stores around me"?
When people post stuff like this, at least have the common sense and courtesy to give the location as well.
A Danish mall (Bilka) has UK imported Xbox Ones for sale. I was there yesterday, and they had 4 Xbox Ones in the wild. No PS4s in sight.
Clerk told me they barely were selling any Xbox Ones, which surprised me.
PS4s had a pre-order backlog that would take at least 3 weeks to fulfill, depending on supply.
I don't see the Xbox One having a big future in Denmark, and neither in Europe.
This article is clickbait.
Neither the PS4 or the Xbox One is in any danger of becoming extinct or unsellable. The Wii U is in dire straits though.
I have 1080p on my youtube options.
http://imgur.com/UMKkLv3
Edit: Youtube "Show Nerd Options" shows it as 1080p.
Downloaded the mp4 file. It's 1080p.
If they have a huge surprise, why wait until E3? By then I think the Sony Steamroller will have crushed their sales even more!
Microsoft needs some megatons out there NOW, not in 3½ months.
Looks nice...
The big question though:
Does it blend?
I was literally 15-20 seconds late for mine at a store in Denmark (they didn't take preorders). Got permission to take 2 hours off at work, and come back to finish later.
When I got to the store, I saw the manager standing with reservation notes. I started to run (about a 30 meter aisle), and then, about 20 meters before I got there, a young guy got the last preorder slip. He was #63. I guess they only had a 6-bit counter.
That kinda makes me the 7th bit ...
@Shake_Zula:
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.
I'm positive that even *if* they could enable the extra CU's, it'll never happen.
If it were doable, some PS4's would run some games better than other PS4's, and that goes against everything a console is: A box with fixed hardware capabilities, everyone has the same experience.
There's more info on this topic here (It&...
itBourne:
It's because of production yields (how many chips of a batch are actually working).
When making the chips, a lot of things can go wrong. Sometimes it's just a single part of a chip that doesn't work right.
In the PS4's case, there are 20 compute units (CU) on-die vs. the 18 CU's available for the developers to use.
This is done because if any 2 of the 20 CU's are tested as faulty, but the res...
If it works fine without updating, I'd wait until Sony fixes it. Haven't got one yet (I'm in Europe), and I'll wait until a new firmware is released. Better safe than sorry.
The chance of bricking is very low, and I've never had any problems with my PS3 (even with the borked updates), but if I just got my PS4, I'd hate to see it brick on its first day.
Every firmware update on any console has lead to bricking.
I think a big part of this getting so much attention now is, that a high percentage of people, who unfortunately has a failing PS4, is telling their story online. Combined with the fact that it's launch day, 100 bricked consoles out of tens of thousands can easy be blown up to epic proportions.
At least I hope so - I'd hate for a faulty day one firmware to become a major problem for any consol...
This is a MisterXMedia rumour.
Blueisviolet twitter is MisterCTeam.
Once again he takes two totally irrelevant things and concludes the XBox One is 2020 tech with Secret Sauce, turbo speed unlocked by DX12 and 3D stacked chips.
How should Netflix know about AMD architecture? PS3 is named Rigel (sorry for repeating myself), it's pure coincidence.