[quote][b]crazy buttocks on a train[/b] ucan remo.ve RUMUR frmo hte thread tittle TEAMMOD. esram yieldls. are "troubling"toput it lightly. truthfact. btw youiw lil not njhear abouthing about tech atMS E3 presentation. tech tarbaby (notracistst!) IS TSTICKIER THAN YOU WIL EVER KNOW. I LOOK FORWARF TO READING THE BOOK BY VENTUREBEAT. theyMSrushed. --caughtoutbysonychangs. leadershitfailure.p. [/quote] First of all, why does CBoaT post like this and who is he? [spoiler]So websites and blogs can't properly source him so it won't lead back to him. CBoaT is a trusted member of the NeoGAF community who has moderator approval. As far as record is, he has only been wrong about Assassin's Creed being a PS3 exclusive a few years back.[/spoiler] Second of all, what does his post mean? [spoiler]The yields for MS's eSRAM are "troubling" to put it lightly. At E3, MS will say nothing about their tech, because they're in a tarbaby. The more they struggle, the worse it gets. They rushed their work, they based their hardware off of the "leaked" Sony hardware which is weaker than what Sony had initially revealed, and it's failing. Poor leadership.[/spoiler] What does that mean for the console? [spoiler][quote]For those asking how this affects performance- to be perfectly frank; it is nothing turning down features won't solve. The mass market will never notice a difference between 1080p and 900p; neither will they care about dynamic shadows / global illumination / or tesselation. Go to your PC - and turn shadows from Ultra to medium, disable tesselation, and lower the resolution to 900p; and you'll find games run totally fine. Microsoft is purely behind and it's now time to make drastic decisions. I don't think any one is happy about the lower clocks, but no one is depressed about it either. The Xbox One is an all-in-on device; and that's how it will be marketed. [/quote][/spoiler] TL;DR: Microsoft rushed their hardware, and is having problem with fail rates of their eSRAM. May have to downclock the console to increase yield rates, which means lower graphical fidelity.