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Pemalite said: Again. You can have powerful hardware at a low price, you just need to be smart about your design.
Even when the Playstation 4/Xbox One released there was already a generational leap in CPU capability available. Not affordably, but it was available. The thing people don't seem to realize is that... CPU and GPU designs take time, just because something isn't on the market and released doesn't mean that Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo cannot access the design goals/ideas/features from that newer design and get AMD to add it to their own semi-custom chips... It's actually separate teams that work on CPU, GPU's and Semi-Custom/Console chips at AMD these days.
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Yep, but while surely MS and Sony will have their custom chips with their ideal compromise amongst performances, cost and power consumption, and possibly also between clock rate and number of cores and their complexity to achieve the planned performances, and while surely they'll get all the infos they need to start development before the chips actually become available, Zen 3 tech remains the best choice compared to Zen 2 or a Zen+ shrunk to 7nm if they want to offer at the right price all the performance they need to be able to follow many possible directions in the new features user could like for next gen. Particularly if they'll need to offer such power also on an undocked hybrid version, in that case GPU could work at far lower performances than when docked or compared to home-only versions, but CPU cores could just save some power disabling optional OS services, but they should offer the game the same computing power. Anyhow, yes, as soon as such tech can be put on semi-custom chips, they'll be able to start production, as they'll have received all the necessary infos for development far before and they'll have developed and simulated all they need before on high-end workstations, BTW they already use such machines also for early console previews when the actual new consoles aren't physically available yet, and also for the earliest SW dev kits.
