Rumor: AMD to Power PlayStation 4
The PlayStation brand has relied heavily on Nvidia technology in the past, as the PS3 has been powered by their brand since it launched over five years ago. However, if a rumor from former AMD employees is to believed, that may no longer be the case, as reports indicate that Sony’s next-gen console will make use of AMD tech.
The report comes from Forbes, which claims that this essentially confirms the reality of a next-gen console in the works at Sony, something I don’t think anyone has doubted. When the publication reached out to Sony for comment, George Bailey, the company’s Chief Transformation Officer refused to offer any information. AMD remained tight-lipped as well.
As signs point to yes though, as this rumor bears a substantial amount of weight. In fact, at AMD’s analyst month held earlier this year, Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert was clear in mentioning that gaming will be a primary factor in the company’s growth over the course of this year.
Be sure to check back here at PlayStation LifeStyle for future info on Sony’s next-generation home console.
12 Responses to “Rumor: AMD to Power PlayStation 4”
AMD? HMM sounds ilke my album called “AMD Dimensional distortion” I released back in 2010
Sorry, but you’re probably the only person whose first thought was that…
That was probably the funniest comment exchange I’ve seen in a long time. Literallt made me laugh out loud.
We need a new PS4 mock up. WTF is that thing supposed to be? A big speaker with early PS3 download games and shitty PS Home front and centre. Someone get creative!
Haha, well if someone sends me an awesome PS4 mockup they made (and own the rights to) I’ll use it on the site and give em $20 PSN or something
Hi Sebastian, why not make it more official? Publish an article requesting us to send you our ps4 mock ups and prices for first, second and third place.
Great news then. AMD’s Radeon brand makes respectable GPUs.
Combine this with a next generation IBM Cell CPU and that would kill. Now add a PROPER amount of memory and a SSD and now my friend you have a solid recipe for a high end gaming rig.
Oh, forget it… I ear that people are not willing to pay for this level of quality anymore. That hurts.
If this would be the case I hope that the memory “pool” will not be split this time. It’s hard to use a memory pool with such a speed gap between the two architectures, I mean come on 3.2ghz vs 700Mhz, that is really hard to work with. They should have just left off the Nvidia GPU and just added a second Cell just for graphics…
I just hope it doesnt affect backwards compatibility like how it affected the transition from the original xbox to the 360
Wait… What’s AMD?
amd? that kinda gets me down, amd isn’t exactly the worlds greatest to use, couldn’t they come up with something better? something that doesn’t freak when it comes to multimedia? my bro, me, and several friends of mine have amd installed on our computers, the moment we try doing games or multimedia, our comps start acting up. this kinda seems like a step down almost. but idk, i could be wrong, i hope i am.
hello …
changing too much would make it not Backward Compatible or with a lot of bugs…
anyway, i’ll see when it will be officially out & i prefer nVidia to AMD
cheers!