Arkaign said:
I think the same financial prudence would have yielded massively more powerful consoles CPU wise by later this year or into next year. Jaguar is terrible. |
Well, Zen won't be available on time for products in November 2015. If Microsoft and Sony had gambled on former promises of AMD, there would be a bad awakening.
The Zen-APUs are now promised for 2016 (and that could change again if problems should occur):
Home consoles are usually launched in the 4th quarter to have a good start (christmas spendings + highest output of AAA-titles), so Microsoft & Sony would have waited 36 months instead of 24 months with their 8th gen consoles... perhaps even 48 months if the Zen-APUs go in mass production at the end of 2016 instead of summer 2016.