During the question round, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick literally said that “it’s likely we’ll see an intergenerational console refresh”, and also qualified that it will not have a big impact on the business level. These comments allow us to draw very interesting conclusions if we read a little between the lines.

On the one hand, this “probably” fits perfectly with the rumors we’ve seen about the PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X Next, which said that Sony could introduce its new console at the end of 2024, and that Microsoft would do the same based on the Japanese company’s moves, meaning the new Xbox should arrive shortly after.

On the other hand, that Take-Two’s CEO is so confident that they won’t have much of an impact on a business level suggests that the PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X Next it will retain the same approach as PS4 Pro and Xbox One Xand that developers will have new tools to make it easier to develop their games with support for both generations.

All of this also reinforces what I’ve already told you on previous occasions that the PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X Next will have changes at the hardware level. it will mainly improve the graphics powerand that these will be introduced with great care to maintain full compatibility with PS5 and Xbox Series X and minimize complications in developing games compatible with these systems.

The specifications of these two new consoles remain a mystery, but we can expect them to repeat with AMD APUs with Zen CPUs and AMD Radeon GPUs. To maintain this high degree of compatibility, the CPU may still be based on the Zen 2 architecture, although it may be slightly faster to improve raw performance a bit. The GPU could be based on RDNA3an architecture that is much more efficient than RDNA2 and also offers better performance with ray tracing.

Another interesting topic touched upon by the executive was support for old generation consoles. Zelnick didn’t specify how long they plan to support it, but generally noted that they will continue to do so as long as the PS4 and Xbox One have a “significant audience,” meaning as long as their user bases remain large enough. for this development. continue to be profitable.