By the end of this year we will have invested well in the generation for 4 years and, as expected, the games take advantage of all the power of the Xbox Series to display all its splendor. But of course, as expected, it’s time to talk about the next generation, supposedly ready for 2026… or not?
Previous clues about the new generation of Xbox spoke of an advance to 2026, as there would be no updated version, in the style of the Xbox One. A PlayStation 5 Pro is taken for granted. The information coming in today is somewhat contradictory.
Xbox would be late, because the contract with AMD was signed only a month ago
This title is the statement made in the podcast “Moore’s Law is Dead”, which is echoed in Wccftechin which they suggest that the The next generation Xbox could have entered the design phase very recentlyprecisely because Microsoft had only signed the contract for its new generation last month, unlike what is happening with the PS5, which already has several signed for subsequent projects.
Apparently this is because Microsoft wants to guarantee a competitive price and thus has more leverage to negotiate it, instead of trusting in the long term. However, these statements, practically focused on this alleged signed contract, They contradict previous rumors that place a new Xbox in 2026. Who should we listen to? Maybe this contract concerns another AMD Xbox that we don’t know about? Maybe a laptop? For now, this line of research is too open to be defined by rumor, but it is still interesting in the same way.