With the ninth generation whose commercial performance has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the forced confinement it has caused in much of the world, both Sony and Microsoft appear to be planning for the next generation of home consoles. Here we find it the future Xbox will appear after the PlayStation 6 according to rumors posted on the YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead.

According to Moore’s Law, he is dead, The next generation Xbox console would have recently entered the design phase and Microsoft wouldn’t sign a new deal with AMD until last month. That would contradict what he allegedly did Sony, as the Japanese giant signed several contracts with the Radeon boss after the launch of the PlayStation 5 as an attempt to lower prices. In other words, and if rumors are to be believed, Microsoft would move later than Sony, so the next-generation Xbox would be launched after the PlayStation 6.

Microsoft’s alleged delay in this move led Intel to submit a bid to provide the console’s processor and graphics, apparently offering much lower prices and full factory capacity at the time. Intel’s move could be aimed at rescuing its Arc graphics division, which has not been doing well at the sales level when it comes to dedicated cards.

As is always the case with this type of information, it is wise to take it with a grain of salt, because then the product may be very different from the rumors that have been circulating. That Intel presented a bid to provide the processor and graphics for a future Xbox makes sense, given that the chip giant has no presence or is a latecomer in industries such as mobile phones and x86 portable consoles.. In others, such as supercomputing, it is trying to make a comeback after AMD and ARM nearly knocked it off the top ten.

If these rumors come true, the next generation of desktop consoles will continue to rely on AMD technology from both PlayStation and Xbox, but Intel shouldn’t be ruled out given the compatibility between x86 processors and Microsoft’s technology being the de facto standard in home computing. .

On the other hand, and given the trend of the console industry over the last decade and a half, the fact that a future Xbox would appear after the PlayStation 6 would put it at a clear disadvantage on a commercial level, especially considering that the only time What Microsoft did manage to take the lead was when it overtook Sony with the Xbox 360, which came with a much more reasonable price tag than the PlayStation 3 at launch.

NOTE: Images are of Xbox Series X.