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walsufnir on 30 June 2015
Lafiel said:
walsufnir said:
Teeqoz said:
If they do so it'll be completely irrelevant to the console market.


Really? My guess is that, if that is true, Sony won't choose AMSD for PS5.

Sony and MS are normal business partners, Sony would ofcourse consider all alternatives, but atleast at this point it seems AMD should again be able to deliver the best price/performance/power consumption package for the next gen and Sony won't want to miss out on that even if the company actually belonged to MS at that point


Of course they are and I never said they are not, in fact I even said they are. But I guess it's important to Sony, like I said before, to create an image of whatever its next name will be gaming system the system is the most powerful. Sony was always behind this. I don't say they cannot make the most powerful system with AMSD but MS would immediately know what Sony is trying to do and build a system that is even better and can be sold like that - a system that is more powerful than Playstation. Because in the end and in the console business they are rivals.



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DonFerrari on 30 June 2015
JRPGfan said:
This actually makes sense for alot of things microsoft does.

Surface lines (carizzo-l), their phones(custom arm designs), Hololense (HSAIL),...

Make money on each xbox chip sold, along with playstation chip, nintendo one.


Imagine if "microsoft" bought and owned AMD.... next thing you know..... DX13 "only" on AMD (goodbye nvidia).
Or special windows funktions buildt into hardware on the CPU, makeing intel suddenly not look as great a option.

Suddenly everything windows related would run fantastic on AMD, and for some reason... no one knows... everything not AMD would be horribly optimised and have random crashes ect :p

The law prevents them trying it. would be a worst case than Netscape.



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disolitude on 30 June 2015

If they do it it won't be because of consoles. Microsoft doesn't really buy anything because of consoles... Hell they didn't buy the company that made Kinect and let Apple buy them.

For PC's though, I could see this happening and would be a very smart move.

All AMD needs is some of Microsoft's cash to invest in R&D and die shrink for their chips, and they could be very competitive with Intel and Nvidia.



generic-user-1 on 30 June 2015
disolitude said:
If they do it it won't be because of consoles. Microsoft doesn't really buy anything because of consoles... Hell they didn't buy the company that made Kinect and let Apple buy them.

For PC's though, I could see this happening and would be a very smart move.

All AMD needs is some of Microsoft's cash to invest in R&D and die shrink for their chips, and they could be very competitive with Intel and Nvidia.


why should enter ms a war vs intel? intel isnt a dwarf, they would give amd/ms a good fight.  and intel would partner up with apple/google or  invest in linux that would hurt m$ big time because getting software running decently is way easyer than microchip R&D



Brutalyst on 30 June 2015
binary solo said:
Brutalyst said:

http://gimmegimmegames.com/2015/06/microsoft-buying-amd-bad-for-everyone-except-xbox/

Just posting a link in the OP is against forum rules. You need to quote some text from the source AND make some comment of your own.

Sorry, I didnt know that, will keep it in mind in the future. I didnt really have any comments to make on the story, but thought it may be of interest to others.



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binary solo on 30 June 2015
walsufnir said:
Lafiel said:
walsufnir said:
Teeqoz said:
If they do so it'll be completely irrelevant to the console market.


Really? My guess is that, if that is true, Sony won't choose AMSD for PS5.

Sony and MS are normal business partners, Sony would ofcourse consider all alternatives, but atleast at this point it seems AMD should again be able to deliver the best price/performance/power consumption package for the next gen and Sony won't want to miss out on that even if the company actually belonged to MS at that point


Of course they are and I never said they are not, in fact I even said they are. But I guess it's important to Sony, like I said before, to create an image of whatever its next name will be gaming system the system is the most powerful. Sony was always behind this. I don't say they cannot make the most powerful system with AMSD but MS would immediately know what Sony is trying to do and build a system that is even better and can be sold like that - a system that is more powerful than Playstation. Because in the end and in the console business they are rivals.

The biggest advantage to Xbox is not power but price. MS owns the company that makes the GPU and CPU hardware, means lots of things can be done to effectively make the price of the console much lower, (R&D costs can be spread over several projects or divisions to that there is littel overhead for Xbox itself to recoup) hereas supplying a 3rd party they will charge market rates for chip sets and as long as they are not price gouging Sony there's nothing any commerce watchdog can do. 



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walsufnir on 01 July 2015
binary solo said:
walsufnir said:


Of course they are and I never said they are not, in fact I even said they are. But I guess it's important to Sony, like I said before, to create an image of whatever its next name will be gaming system the system is the most powerful. Sony was always behind this. I don't say they cannot make the most powerful system with AMSD but MS would immediately know what Sony is trying to do and build a system that is even better and can be sold like that - a system that is more powerful than Playstation. Because in the end and in the console business they are rivals.

The biggest advantage to Xbox is not power but price. MS owns the company that makes the GPU and CPU hardware, means lots of things can be done to effectively make the price of the console much lower, (R&D costs can be spread over several projects or divisions to that there is littel overhead for Xbox itself to recoup) hereas supplying a 3rd party they will charge market rates for chip sets and as long as they are not price gouging Sony there's nothing any commerce watchdog can do. 


Sure, price only adds to the advantage of the impossibility being caught off guard.