| shikamaru317 said: Was looking at Kepler's leaks on Xbox's hardware plans, he is an AMD leaker that is pretty reliable. He believes that the reason why Xbox is going ahead with their next-gen console and OEM partner consoles is because Xbox already signed a chipset contract with a minimum order requirement with AMD, that at this point it is cheaper for them to go ahead and release their next-gen hardware than it would be to pay AMD to back out of the contract or to buy the chipsets from AMD and give them to their OEM partners who will be making their own Xbox PC's. He said that the dedicated Xbox handheld was cancelled early in the R&D phase because AMD wanted a 10m order commitment in the contract, which Xbox was obviously unwilling to go for since no open platform handheld so far has managed to sell 10m units (SteamDeck is the highest with around 5m sales so far in 3 and a half years on the market), which is why Xbox is only going with OEM partners like Asus for Xbox branded handhelds now. But unlike the handheld chipset contract, the console chipset contract was already signed. He said that the next gen Xbox console chipset is most of the way through development at AMD right now, and is scheduled for tape-out (the final phase of development before mass production) later in Q4 this year. |
Would make sense as to why Xbox is looking for emulation engineers to emulate Xbox console games on Windows and why merge Xbox with Windows. With such low console marketshare, it would be risky for silicon manufacturers like AMD to stick to the platform without guarantees. Seemingly Xbox's solution.....third party OEM hardware and taking advantage of how widely used Windows is.
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