he can't be though, I've seen him be used to push playstation fanboy narratives just as much as Xbox fanboy narratives. He's been called both Pony and Xbot so much
Yeah, like that made any sense that it would be the only xbox thing that they did not have any further "horizons" planned for.
I think it’s likely one of the oem consoles. Asus (for example) could make a $1k box that is “high end” that is essentially a pc. This would also tie into Phil mentioning you get “entitlements” across PC and Xbox when you buy a game. So “next gen” could essentially just be PCs that they support with BC and cross buys and voila, they are out of the hardware game while still having plausible deniability about not actually dumping Xbox, and they are essentially just a game publisher at that point.
With the latest development in generative AI I suspect that there may be some kind of frame generation made by AI instead of traditional rendering in 3 or 4 years.
Project Mara, Ninja Theory will photoscan their entire office and you'll be able to experience all of it in 8K around 2034. You'll really feel like you are
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It possibly means the leaked next-gen design is still the plan. Imo this is the wrong direction, but has potential to deliver a meaningful bump in CPU performance. CPU performance has sagged a bit in the last 2 generations:
Microsoft's next all-new Xbox console could have Arm not x86 CPU cores
Does that actually matter for PC gaming?
Why is it the wrong direction? Because committing to x86 allows you to target a wide variety of hardware with one build of the game. If you want to support handhelds and consoles and high-end PC desktops, it's more elegant/efficient/feasible to have one build. Mid->low range AMD CPUs might hold back console performance compared to other options, but most publishers aren't swinging for the fences anyway.
There's a case for it, but I don't think hardware is the main driver of pretty on screen visuals since the tail end of the PS3 era. Money is.
