Xbox announces partnership with AMD for "next generation Xbox consoles"

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curl-6 said:

HoloDust said:

"Moving forward, AMD will go beyond building custom chips for Xbox consoles to designing a full roadmap of gaming-optimized chips. Combining the power of Ryzen and Radeon for consoles, handhelds, PCs, and the cloud."

"Together, we are building a vibrant, open ecosystem that delivers the next generation of graphics and immersive gameplay powered by AI that includes new foundational models to accelerate the state of the art in rendering."

"From console to cloud to handheld, AMD and Microsoft are building the future of immersive gaming. We are so excited to be working with Microsoft to bring all of this tech to gamers everywhere."

Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD

Lot of buzzwords and PR Talk, but talk is cheap and it will be challenging for them to deliver a "next gen" leap with diminishing returns kicking in hard these days.

Will be interesting to see what they're actually able to deliver.

Going from RDNA 2 to RDNA 4 in the same "tier" of product segment, there is definitely a massive leap.

It's all in the Ray Tracing and A.I. upscaling which are providing some of the largest improvements I have seen in a very long time.
In RT alone I am seeing a 5x improvement.

...And with Neural materials, textures, compression, shaders and more all coming before next-gen... We could see some extremely large visual gains if AMD is able to adopt and implement them in a tasteful manner in time. (They have a couple years yet.)

There is a paradigm shift occurring in the industry (Hardware and software) in how we render games, which has historically provided the largest leaps in graphics in previous console generations.

crissindahouse said:

Game Pass won't reach Netflix numbers because almost everyone on this planet watches movies and/or shows but many who play games just play smartphone games and some don't game at all.

But that doesn't mean it can't be the "Netflix of gaming"

Netflix also needed many years to reach like 50m users and that with streaming movies...

Gamepass allows you to stream console quality games to mobile.

If game streaming takes off, that's when Gamepass will take off in massive numbers I think.