“The next generation Xbox” was mentioned briefly during AMD's most recent earnings call. During the call, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said that the next Xbox uses a semi-custom SoC (system-on-a-chip) from AMD and that the console is currently slated for a 2027 release.
Xbox announced a “strategic multi-year partnership” with AMD as early as June 2025. In this first announcement, Xbox President Sarah Bond confirmed that the company is working with AMD on its next-generation hardware line including PC, handheld, cloud and console. However, Xbox and AMD's relationship goes back much further, with both the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S using AMD processors.
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The next Xbox could launch in 2027
As first reported by Insider Gaming's Robert DeFelice, AMD held its Q4 2025 earnings call on February 3. During the call, CEO Dr. Lisa Su discussed the current video game landscape and how AMD fits into it. Along with stating that AMD expects video game console revenue to decline by a “significant double-digit percentage” in 2026, Dr. Su has this to say about AMD's continued partnership with Xbox:
“Development of Microsoft's next-gen Xbox with AMD's semi-custom SoC is progressing well for a 2027 launch.”
Of course, while Xbox executives have confirmed that next-gen hardware is in development, Microsoft has yet to officially announce the next Xbox console or confirm its release. One of the few official statements Xbox has made regarding the new hardware is Sarah Bond's comment that the next Xbox will be “a very premium, very high-end curated experience.” But if AMD's latest earnings estimate is accurate, then fans could expect an official announcement of the next-gen Xbox before the end of 2026. For example, the Xbox Series X was officially unveiled during the 2019 Game Awards, almost a full year before it hit store shelves.
What will the next Xbox look like?
While fans should wait for an official announcement from Microsoft before getting too excited, AMD's statement is in line with previous reports from well-known industry insiders. Windows Central's Jez Corden first mentioned that the next Xbox console would have a 2027 release in the March 2025 episode of the Xbox Two podcast. Here, Corden also mentioned that the next Xbox would likely be “essentially a PC”. Since then, Corden has made several references to the next-gen Xbox, most recently yesterday. In his latest feature for Windows Central, Corden claims that the next Xbox “won't be out until late 2027 at the earliest.” Corden said he got details about the next-gen Xbox console when he first heard about the ROG Xbox Ally. Jez Corden's latest report for Windows Central also claims that “the next Xbox will essentially be a full Windows PC” with a “controller-first interface.”
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Rumors that the next Xbox will be a PC rather than a traditional console have been circulating for some time. In October 2025, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said (via an interview with Famitsu) that ROG Xbox Ally “hints at how the Xbox software platform will evolve in the future”, potentially teasing that the next Xbox will be a similar Windows-based experience with an Xbox overlay. Jez Corden's latest report confirmed this theory, claiming that the Xbox Full Screen Experience ROG Xbox Ally is an “early vision” of what the next-gen Xbox will look like. If these theories and reports are true, then the next Xbox may also run other stores like Steam and the Epic Games Store, allowing gamers to merge their Xbox and PC libraries.
Source: Insider Gaming
