One next-gen console to have AMD CPU and Graphics

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Impulsivity said:

On the bright side whoever is willing to be saddled with ATI/AMD stuff can probably get great price concessions since AMD really needs the business.

 

It's not that crystal clear. MS will insist on owning the design (I bet most of the folks there still remember the hair shirt it became using chips they didn't own) so AMD would only get a single fee for the design job. No royalties. Linking the deal with an exclusive manufacturing contract with The Foundry Company is tricky, it means MS would lose the power to negotiate manufacturing fees - unless the contract had a price-matching guarantee. It's the kind of setups that might end up turning into a bed of nails.