A new streaming-oriented Microsoft console on a custom AMD Picasso platform gains momentum
We have been pointing in a new direction for some time when it comes to focusing on home entertainment and it seems that game consoles have no place or not at least according to the format by which we have known them up to now. Expensive machines, especially when they are released, with powerful _hardware_ but closed to evolutions
In recent years we have also seen how manufacturers shortened the life span of their machines with revisions that made them more powerful, quieter and more stylish without implying a generation leap.A modus operandi that can change if the commitment to _streaming_ settles in the medium-term future.
The Netflix model in video games is already a reality and platforms such as Xbox Game Pass are indicative of what path the industry may take in the future. We can forget having to invest in a powerful machine since the effort would be done by external servers. At home our console would only have to transmit the content received through the network.
A permanently connected console, here there is no doubt and with a good speed of access to the network that would not require too powerful _hardware_. The biggest hurdle would be getting rid of game latency.
It is the objective of Microsoft's Project xCloud with which the American company plans to make video game _streaming_ a reality. In fact, we've already come to refer to a possible Xbox without a Blu-ray player.
And now the rumors are back on the front page since WCCFTech assures that the next generation of consoles will have a modified APU from the AMD Picasso lineThis is the same SoC that is rumored to be used by an upcoming device from the Surface family.
With this development from Microsoft, what they would seek is to achieve adequate management of _streaming_ with reduced consumption and that also allows offering a product at a competitive price , a more affordable cost than a console like the ones we can find on the market today.
In addition, this modified AMD Picasso APU would work together with Project Brainwave, the platform developed by Microsoft that, as we already know, It is based on the use of Artificial Intelligence in real time, adapting the use to the needs of each user.
For now they are just rumors, but they are there, appearing more insistently, indicating that yes, this could be the future. It only remains to be revealed if it will take more or less to become a reality.
