Microsoft confirmed final yr that it’s engaged on a next-gen Xbox console in partnership with AMD. Now, AMD is hinting that the following Xbox console, which can use {custom} AMD chips, may very well be launching in 2027.
“Improvement of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox, that includes an AMD semi-custom SoC, is progressing properly to assist a launch in 2027,” mentioned AMD CEO Lisa Su on an earnings name at this time. The temporary remark doesn’t affirm Microsoft will launch a brand new Xbox in 2027, but it surely does reveal that AMD is able to assist a launch then if Microsoft can also be prepared.
Microsoft entered a “strategic multi-year partnership” with AMD final yr that features the pair co-engineering silicon “throughout a portfolio of gadgets — together with our next-generation Xbox consoles in your front room and in your arms.” AMD and Microsoft are additionally working collectively to construct the following technology of Xbox Cloud Gaming servers.
Microsoft has been teasing that the next-gen Xbox might be some kind of hybrid console and PC, with the Xbox Ally gadgets serving because the preliminary groundwork in the direction of this finish purpose. “The subsequent-gen console goes to be a really premium, very high-end curated expertise,” mentioned Xbox president Sarah Bond in October.
Microsoft hasn’t put a date on its next-gen Xbox, and paperwork that leaked as a part of the FTC v. Microsoft case initially pointed in the direction of a potential 2028 launch. These paperwork, which don’t mirror present plans anymore, talked about utilizing a {custom} AMD CPU in addition to a co-designed AMD GPU.