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lansingone on 16 February 2019
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Pemalite said:
lansingone said:

I agree. I think after XB1 they'll be playing every aspect of this launch safe.

I do think that unlike the start of this gen, the hardware inside will be slightly different, because AMD seems more inclined to make custom chips than before. If those previous leaks are to believed, I expect PS5 to have a Navi GPU with whatever additions Sony needed, and MS will have a pretty much equally powerful Vega based GPU. 

Why can't Microsoft leverage Navi as well?

It was just working with a what if scenario. As I said, it's under the assumption that the previous leaks about Navi being designed as a PS5 chip were true. I feel it would follow the same roadmap as when AMD made the RX pro for Apple. Sure other polaris mobile chips were sold to other OEMs based on that design, but Apple got it first.

I'm not trying to say it's definite, i'm just saying that according to that information, and based on the closeness Sony were rumored to be working with AMD, even though Sony wouldn't have exclusive rights to Navi in a console, It would probably mean it would be exclusive until it ships. That reality would be disaster for MS, because they'd essentially have to wait for PS5 to launch, just to start ordering the final design.

So, my assumption was If all of that was true, I would think MS would use an already available Vega and launch sooner.