MS made a lot of good long term choices.
2) DDR 3 is mass produced and wont go anywhere for a long time. The quanities for it dwarf the quanities for gddr . The GDDR ram sony is using is cutting edge and thus will have a cutting edge price and avalibility. Price for high end ram takes a long time to go down
I've said it before , but I like the original idea of the xbox one and the new changes are still workable. I like the idea of being able to sit on my couch and not have to get up to change from bluray to game to Netflix to game to bluray again and so on. It may sound lazy but sometimes my friends and I jump through 3 different games in an hour depending on who jumps on and who has what. I don't want to constantly get up or constantly looking for the remote to change inputs.
Unless you're talking about the potential for MS to do a price cut on the XB1 sooner than Sony can for the PS4, the fact that GDDR's price taking a long time to come down is irrelevant. Even if MS makes a $100 price cut that will only bring them in line with PS4's price, so the cheapness/availability of DDR3 ram is NOT a point in their favor, especially since it led to the inclusion of the eSRAM which MAY have irrevocably crippled the system's power in relation to the PS4, forcing devs to find creative ways to program for it.
As for not wanting to "constantly get up [to change discs] or constantly look for the remote", that line of logic just seems completely absurd to me. You're really excited about the Kinect 2.0 just for voice commands so you don't have to get up to change discs, or to *gasp* actually pick up and use a remote to change inputs? I mean I know we 'Muricans are a lazy lot, but this takes lazyness to a whole different level.
I fully expect this country to look like Wall-E more than it already does in the very near future, just a bunch of 400lb blobs rolling around on motorized scooters, yelling "Xbox, order me a pizza!". I'm not saying that the overweight stereotype applies to you personally mind you. For all I know you could be 3% bodyfat gym rat with abs like some sort of coblestone pavement who could grind me into dust, and just prefer your TV-time to be 'lazy' time. But personally I think the trend to remove all physical activity from our day-to-day lives in the good ol' US of A is getting out of hand. I say this from the perspective of a Registered Nurse who takes care of people every day who don't bother to take care of themselves.
And before anyone cyber-stalks my gamertag on Xbox Live and says I must be one of those individuals myself just because of my gamerscore, know that I'm 6'1" and 185lbs (which is ideal body weight for my height, fyi). I spend 2 hours at the gym at least 3x a week, maintain a rather healthy lifestyle outside of my gaming habit. It just so happens that working nights, my nights off afford lots of gaming time since I have to stay awake all night anyway. One can only spend so much time in at the 24-hr gold's gym or cooking the next few days' lunches.
Disclaimer: I'm buying BOTH systems. I haven't owned a Sony console since the PS2, which I sold to get the OG Xbox at launch. If anything one would think I'm a MS fanboy because I've owned a total of Eight Xbox 360s. However, the logic that voice commands to change the channel and not having to get off your keester to change discs compensate for giving us an inferior system overall at a $100 premium is just absurd. I realize this probably isn't your ONLY reason for getting one obviously, but it really isn't even a bullet in the system's favor unless someone is supremely lazy. People keep touting the "TV integration", but it's nothing the 360 doesn't already do other than the HDMI pass-through, which is nothing more than a glorified input selector to begin with.
