*RUMOR* All Three Next-Gen Consoles Sporting AMD GPUs?

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We all now that Nintendo will use an ATI AMD graphics chip with WiiU, but apparently both Microsoft and Sony will also go red with their next consoles.

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Going with AMD makes sense for both Nintendo and Microsoft as they are using their chips with their current gen consoles and this guarantees that almost every game launched for Wii or Xbox360 will work with their next consoles. And you can ask Microsoft how troublesome can be going from one camp to the other, not every game launched on the original xbox(Nvidia) works in the xbox360(AMD).

The shocking news if true is Sony. We haven't heard of any troubles between Sony and Nvidia that may have caused this change and (again, if true), they won't be able to have fully backwards compatibility. Again. So, why would Sony do that?

Anyway, if true that means 2 things:

1-AMD would have scored a major win over Nvidia. Being the provider for the 3 console manufacturers guarantees them a lot of sales and revenue that their rival couldn't threat. It could also lead to an advantage with the coding of PC games, that may end runing better on AMD GPUs.

2-Having the same(or very similar) GPU architecture on all the consoles would simplify the work that has to be done when porting a game from one console to another, meaning that multiplatform games would be faster, easier and cheaper to make.