CONFIRMED! Xbox Scorpio will be shown Thursday at 2pm UK / 6am Pacific. (April 6th)

[Pemalite]

Bandorr said:

Pemalite said:

I am willing to bet that people are going to whinge, complain and hate if it's anything except Ryzen. Everyone has hyped themselves up for an 8-core  Ryzen. Microsoft should have nipped that issue in the butt earlier.

And what are the odds of it being a Ryzen?

While this is quite beyond me, I have read about it on various forums. The "reasonable" ones all seem to think it is next to impossible for it to by a Ryzen. Something about it needing at least another year?

Even before Digitial Foundry provided it's thoughts on the CPU uArch that the console *might* use... I have always said that it might be Jaguar or Puma based.
I said the same with the Playstation 4 Pro as well... And before the Xbox One and Playstation 4 specs were revealed, provided my thoughts that they would use something based on AMD's Cat CPU uArch thanks to price.

An 8-core Ryzen is way to big and expensive for a console, so the chances of it being in Scorpio is slim at best in my opinion... This will be one of those scenarios where I will also be stupidly happy to be proven wrong... As I would love for a console manufacturer to take CPU performance seriously for once.

At the moment though... Ryzen 1700 is $445 AUD with the cheapest motherboard being $129.
Jaguar in a quad-core configuration with ITX motherboard and heatsink was $120 back when the Xbox One and Playstation 4 launched.

If it uses an 8-core Ryzen, then Scorpio might just make the Playstation 3 on launch look like a budget console.