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No, the next-gen Xbox does not run on Arm — here's what you need to know (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our sources confirmed to me this morning that the next Xbox systems, however, are not based on Qualcomm chips. There might be some third-party "Designed for Xbox" Arm-based offerings, like the Logitech G Cloud. But, the main plan from Microsoft, at least for now, is for the next-gen Xbox systems to have as much compatibility with your current library as possible. The overheads required to emulate games built for Microsoft's AMD-based systems are beyond what the Snapdragon line up is currently capable of.

In a sense, this is MS indirectly admiting that their current Windows-on-ARM strategy has significant weaknesses and their emulation is not really performing and viable.

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They need Apple silicon lmao

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Even that won't be enough. Apple users do not use older applications and there are a lot less niche, long tail (domain-specific, region-specific) applications on their platform.