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Ryuu96 said:

I'm in a Windows on ARM session at Build and Microsoft has just said Baldur's Gate 3 will run at 25-35fps on these latest Qualcomm Copilot+ PCs pic.twitter.com/WSfYqulyIf

— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 21, 2024

This is Borderlands 3 running on the just announced Qualcomm Snapdragon Developer Kit. Runs pretty smoothly! pic.twitter.com/bGRDZ5Wahc

— Zac Bowden (@zacbowden) May 21, 2024

Next Xbox using ARM.

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At the very least I think they will use it on the Xbox handheld they've been teasing, using Arm for that handheld will be more battery efficient than going with an x86 handheld like Steam Deck, while this new ability to emulate x86 Windows games will allow the Xbox handheld to play PC Gamepass games without the need for optimized ports built for Arm (though some games will get optimized ports I suspect, especially from 1st/2nd party). 

Now will the console use Arm? I'm doubtful there. Xbox was considering it back when they made the slide about gen 10 that came out during the ABK trials, but that was an old slide from like 2020 and much has changed since then, they were planning on a 2028 release at the time before Xbox Series underperformed and they seemingly decided to move up the release by 2 years, and we've had multiple leakers claim that the 2026 next gen Xbox will use x86 again, specifically an AMD Zen 5 CPU, 3 generations ahead of the Zen 2 CPU in Xbox Series S|X (they were considering Zen 6 vs Arm for the 2028 next-gen Xbox).

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 21 May 2024