If XBX fails, what next?

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EricHiggin said:

Ryzen is a huge improvement over AMD's prior high end CPU's, and thats as of right now. You also have to take into account that in 3-4 years time with the normal yearly incremental improvements, Ryzen should be miles ahead of Jaguar. Even though XB and PS have been using outdated tech, they like to incorporate new features from the newest tech if possible.

If what XB has managed to achieve with Jaguar in terms of offloading and efficiency, could handle 60fps locked at 4k, and they anticipate this will be able to compete with "PS5 and next gen games", you have to wonder whether or not PS would try and immitate this hardware design for another PS4 or PS5 at 7nm. While it wouldn't be the best decision in terms of tech, it would be in terms of business input costs as well as BC.

I would hope and assume that Ryzen is the next step for consoles, but with this business and marketing structure of more powerful, yet smaller/efficient hardware being sold at cost, which needs to hit an acceptable consumer price, I can't help but wonder.

Zen's CPU cores are tiny. So there is no reason not to use them next generation from a cost perspective. So that is a plus.
We might see some cutbacks/changes to the cache hierachy, which is normal.
Even then, I would assume next-gen uses Zen+ rather than Zen anyway, which should bring with it a myriad of improvements where Ryzen currently is lacking.

Xbox One X though isn't going to be a 4k, 60fps machine... I called it before the console was even a rumor, same with the Playstation 4 Pro. - Jaguar is partly at fault for that, but the biggest culprit is that GPU, which prevents many games from hitting that 4k target.
The console is only using mid-range PC hardware... And if that hardware can't hit 4k on PC reliably, then it certainly can't on Xbox.

The Xbox One's GPU is however well suited to 1440P, 60fps... Then you can use frame reconstruction/checkerboard/upscaling to hit that 4k target, which should be fine for this generation.

I would be interested to see where Microsoft and Sony take their Ram next generation, we will have GDDR6 on the market which is likely the logical choice, but HBM2 should be out in force as well.
Will they opt for 32GB? Split pools to keep costs in control?