AMD’s CEO just put a year on the next Xbox release. According to Lisa Su, AMD’s semi‑custom chip for “Microsoft’s next‑gen Xbox” is “progressing well to support a launch in 2027,” which lines up neatly with all those rumor‑mill timelines people have been throwing around since last summer. It is not quite a formal reveal, but it is about as close as you get on an earnings call.
AMD has been inside every Xbox since the One, and Su’s line about being on track to “support a launch in 2027” is baked into prepared remarks, not some off‑the‑cuff slip during Q&A. For all practical purposes, this tells investors (and, by extension, everyone else) to expect new Microsoft hardware in that window unless something goes very sideways.
This also fits the pattern: there were seven years between Xbox One and Series X|S, and 2027 would mark seven years since that 2020 launch. Behind the scenes, leaks have already pointed to an AMD APU codenamed “Magnus,” supposedly built on Zen 6 CPU cores with RDNA 5 graphics, and pitched as a more “premium” device instead of a mass‑market loss leader. Rumors have framed the design as a hybrid PC‑style box that leans hard into backwards compatibility with Series titles. Basically, a high‑end Windows‑adjacent console for people who live in Game Pass already.
That strategy makes sense in 2026, when RAM and SSD prices are spiking, and Microsoft is trying to avoid subsidizing hardware. If the plan really is to sell fewer, pricier boxes while putting its games on everything with a CPU, then a 2027 “flagship” Xbox becomes less of a battleground with PlayStation and more of a status symbol for the faithful who want an official box under the TV.
Source: Kotaku
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