AMD Hints PS5 and Next Gen Xbox Will Launch in 2020 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2019 / 5,744 Views
AMD CEO Lis Su speaking with investors during the company's earnings call about the quarterly financial results hinted the PlayStation 5 and next generation Xbox will launch in 2020 and not 2019.
Su stated the semi-custom business will be down by 20 percent or more in 2019, but that it would grow once again in 2020. The CEO did not specify any customers, however, Su is likely talking about Sony and Microsoft.
"We are very pleased with our partnership and expanding our partnership with Sony on their next-generation consoles," said Su.
"As we see, the semi-custom business at this point, we still believe that it’s going to be down substantially in 2019, let’s call it approximately 20%-plus. And then as we go into 2020, without talking about any specific customer, we believe that semi-custom will return to a growth business for us in 2020 and beyond."
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SONY Next generation consoles ? So not one console from Sony?
Could be they already have an agreement for their Pro console. Could be following the same strategy as the PS4 Pro by just doubling up on the GPU. of course the price won't come for another 3 years or so when prices are down.
I think they are talking in terms of a manufactures mindset. Mass producing PS5 "consoles" in the millions. Perhaps 10-20 million in the first year alone. I'm sure down the line we will see a PS5 slim and whatever else Sony decides to cook up, but hopefully they launch and focus on one single base model at launch. This will give them a huge advantage over Microsoft's split economy.
Sony already confirm this.
And this surprised a total of 0 people. We already knew it from the interview of Mark Cerny.
AMD did hint at a sales increase in 2020 as they forecasted heavily for that year. It sounds about right that both will launch spear heading AMD sales.
