The entire conflict between the US FTC and Microsoft stems from the acquisition of Bethesda. Among the reasons for the purchase would be to make Starfield exclusive to the Microsoft console.
During the last trial, a lot of confidential information has been revealed, in addition to being a bit of a farce. The FTC seemed more interested in defending or supporting Sony in its lawsuits than in elucidating whether acquiring Bethesda meant reducing competition and obtaining a position of power for Microsoft.
Xbox Brooklyn and Ellewood
According to the leaked document, Microsoft is working on an update to its latest generation of consoles. The first one mentioned is Brooklynhe code name of the update of the Xbox Series X. This console is would throw to the market in October 2024 (a year, more or less).
The document talks about the use of AMD Ryzen APUs with cores Zen2 and graphics RDNA2, both based on TSMC’s 6nm node. The idea is that it can move «4K Gen9 console games». I would have the console WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 and a cylindrical design. According to rumor, he would have a USB-C port on the front.
Brooklyn would see reduced the power from your source feeding in a fifteen%, as improvements are made to the hardware. It would also have a new low power mode that requires 20% of the Xbox Series S’s current standby power.
Microsoft will maintain the price for Brooklin of the Xbox Series 549 euros. He storage of the console expands to the 2TB, something possible thanks to the low price of these units. Something interesting is that the disk reader is eliminated.
We have on the other hand ellewoodwhich is a update of the Xbox Series S. This console maintains the current design, without any adjustments to it. The processor could be updated a little and connectivity would be improved by integrating WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2. The Microsoft console will maintain the price of 299 euros.
Both consoles will receive a new command code name Sebile. The little we know is that it will support rechargeable and removable batteries, in addition to “increasing immersion”
Next generation of Microsoft consoles
The above is very interesting information, but among the documentation, there is data about the future of the console. Specifically, there are details about its future. Within a slide of a next generation solution the processor is talked about.
We can see that Microsoft compares the architectures ARM and x64Referring to AMD Zen 6 for the second design. This leads us to think that they are considering creating a console based on the ARM chip design. Furthermore, the reference to big.LITTLEname of the architecture of ARM processors.
Within this image we can also talk about a graphics chip “collaborative” designed together with amd based on RDNA 5 (Navi 5). It is possible that, if Microsoft chooses an ARM processor, it will integrate AMD graphics similar to what Samsung has been developing for smartphones for years.
Something interesting about this “Next Xbox” is that it integrates NPU either Neural Processing Units. They would be kernels for a machine learning process that developers could use to provide intelligence to non-playable characters (NPC).
It also makes it clear that it will endure DirectX Raytracing next generation.
The new Microsoft console would be launched in 2028 and the type of processor is currently being studied. It should be noted that the company has been optimizing support for the ARM architecture for quite some time, so the use of these processors has not been ruled out.