Alphane Moon to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days agoChips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cutsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkChips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cutsarstechnica.comAlphane Moon to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhardware@lemmy.world
minus-square@sheogorath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish20•10 days agoI 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).
minus-squareAlphane MoonOPlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-210 days agoIf 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.
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).
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.