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Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The console market ever since the PS3 and xbox 360 has been a leech on the PC platform market. They turn up every X years apart to buy a cheap GPU and CPU on a chip and demand rock bottom prices for volume and pay for none of the research and development in the intervening years.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. AMD basically said that they survived the Bulldozer debacle because of Sony and Microsoft ordering their APUs. The custom designs also have trickled down with AMD making iGPU that are desktop levels now (8060S).

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If not for consoles, AMD would have likely gone bankrupt or become a marginal player.

Considering what's happening with Intel in the past ~7 year, it would have been game over for x86 PC gaming on the CPU front.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But that's what they've always done. The NES used a 6502 processor that no one used anymore, and the Sega a Z80 after CP/M went the way of dinosaurs. The Xbox and PS2 used out of date Pentium processors.