At a time when it seems increasingly likely that the next generation of consoles will be the last to follow the same trend line as the last generations, possibly even serving as the last “home” consoles ever, here we have some news regarding its potential performance level and acquisition cost.
Interestingly, despite some leaks pointing to a new Xbox capable of offering one of the biggest leaps in performance ever, other information points to a slowdown in graphical evolution, or at prices much higher than what consumers consider “normal ” to a console.
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Therefore, according to a well-known “leaker” in the AMD field, the new generation consoles will offer slightly less incredible levels of performance. Or else, they will start to appear on the market at frightening prices.
This is somewhat in line with what Sony’s COO (Hiroki Totoki) said some time ago, when he stated that it is more complicated to make a console like the PlayStation 5 profitable, due to the increase in the price of development and acquisition of components, as well as well as the increase in the price of game development. Something that will only get worse in the future!
In other words, either manufacturers keep prices “low”, but performance will stop increasing as it has in all generations, and this could even mean a change in the way the world of consoles changes, with games reaching several generations at the same time, in the same way that a game can also adapt to various combinations of hardware and performance levels on the computer side. Otherwise, consumers will have to realize that they will need to pay €1000, or more, for a new generation console.
This is a very interesting way of looking at things!
Especially at a time when Microsoft seems ready to abandon AMD to adopt Intel. This at the same time that he claims to have plans to make the biggest leap ever in the field of performance. Did Intel offer an incredible discount for the new Xbox, or is it all bullshit?
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