Ryuu96 said:
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This is part of why I think that the AMD leaker might be right. He knows the AMD databases well, and if he says that the Xbox Next chipset will be ready for a console releasing in 2026 I have no reason to doubt him. Wouldn't really make sense for Xbox to hold back a chipset that AMD completed in 2025 or 2026 all the way until the 2028 from their ABK roadmap for the next Xbox console.
Why hold back a completed chipset for 2-3 years to release it in 2028 when said chipset will be pretty outdated tech by then? It would only make sense for Xbox to extend the generation if Xbox Series was selling well, but it's not, all signs point to Xbox Series falling behind Xbox One launch aligned this Holiday season. Sure the chipset could be for a Pro console, but Phil seemed against the idea just earlier this year, he was calling Series X their Pro console and Series S their consumer console just months ago, it just wouldn't really make sense for them to support, S, X, and X Pro all at once.
The other possibilities I see is that Xbox could finally be adapting the long speculated smartphone hardware model for Xbox, where something like this happens:
- 2020- Xbox Series S and X release
- 2025/2026- Xbox Series S2 and X2 release, while S and X are rebranded as S1 and X1, S1 and X1 support for most games continues
- 2029/2030- Xbox Series S3 and X3 release, S1 and X1 game support ends, S2 and X2 game support continues
And so on and so forth, with Xbox always supporting 2 half-gens at once with game support. Alternatively they could just drop S and have each numbered Xbox Series be a single model, meaning that Series 2 would effectively be X Pro, while Series 3 would release around the same time as PS6 a few years later to compete with it, while Series 2 game support continues for a further few years.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 15 December 2023
