AMD admits using fake render to show off Xbox Series X

One of the more interesting things that AMD showed off during its keynote late last night was a shiny new render of the Xbox Series X. It was more detailed than anything we’d seen before – but it made sense for AMD to be showing it off.

The only problem? The render wasn’t legitimate.

[CaptainHenry916]

They gotta help Xbox series X the best they can before it launches.

[King_Noctis]

If so then why did they admit they showed a fake render? Don’t you think they could have just stay silent? Who knew this was fake to begin with?

[Gazondaily]

Lol so apparently AMD are in cahoots with MS to market the X as some dastardly plan to market their tech

[RazzerRedux]

" AMD are in cahoots with MS"

Well, they absolutely are and CaptainHenry916 is right. Guess what? They are in "cahoots" with Sony too. I'm sure they will provide as many fake renders as Sony wants.

[MasterCornholio]

@Septic

I don't think that's it at all. It's because Microsoft already revealed their system while Sony is keeping theirs under wraps. AMD won't use images of the PS5 until after Sony reveals it.

[King_Noctis]

“ That's what happens when you get caught lying.”

Wait a minute, who caught them in the first place? Because based on the article, its AMD themselves that clarify that this is a fake render.

Also, if they needed images for their keynote and the actual console isn’t being mass product yet, what do you think they should do? Call a magician and make them pull the console out of a hat?

[rainslacker]

Does it really matter if it was fake or not? Seems like a lot of to do over something rather harmless in the bigger picture. It's not like they revealed any kind of trade secret with the fake render, they just wanted something to show with their video. Something that isn't widely available at the moment.

[darthv72]

It can't be THAT fake considering we already know what the box looked like from MS. All that is questionable is the port layout / orientation. Otherwise the render is more than likely pretty accurate.

[JackBNimble]

Both MS and Sony will be using similar tech from AMD so claiming they're helping xbox is kind of pointless .

[KillBill]

So that is why Microsoft quickly came out and stated it was not representative of their actual system configuration? You do realize PS5 is AMD too right? So are they going to give us a fake representation of their system too?

[Gazondaily]

Yeah I wonder if you'll get an answer to your question here..

[xVOLTx]

Silly console gamers.

[specialguest]

How is a rendering of the ports on the back "help"? The ports are nothing special and it was less than a second shown. OMG! That completely sold me! /s

No one in the history of gaming ever refused to buy a console based on whether it had an internal or external power supply, or the types of ports it had. The amount of people agreeing with your post is hilarious

[TheKingKratos]

Lol why do this when the console is powerful enough and new ?

[nirwanda]

I hope the two hdmis output my amp won't do hdr but will do DTS master audio etc, so I have to sacrifice sound for picture quality.

[Kumakai]

Who cares... it wasn’t even meant for the public.

Here I’m gonna help you guys out if you care... the back of the Xbox and ps5 both will have... wait for it: a power plug, some usb, some hdmi, an optical port and probably some vents. Let’s get back to sleep.

[Garethvk]

It was streamed but the video is gone now and marked Private. We had staff there.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Looks nothing like the Microsoft render

[froy402]

Who cares, doesn't mean the dam series x is fake. These journalists have nothing else to wright about.

[NonPartisanGamer]

Rendergate.

[Max_Eckhardt]

Losers

[gold_drake]

so weird, why would they do that?

[1Victor]

Better they came out and say it than someone go frame by frame and calling them out for rendering a fake box

[ShadowWolf712]

oh no, the... scandal, I guess?

-shrug-

[iplay1up2]

Who cares? Stupid!

[Garethvk]

Two Microsoft and Xbox people tried to start a fight with me on FB about this saying it was from AMD and Not Microsoft. So I said ok so either you knew and approved of what AMD did or you were cluless and let them present about your new console without oversight. So they came back with well others do it. I said I do not remember Nintendo or Sony doing this. They responded that Nintendo keeps things secret and they have to research Sony as they were sure they must have messed up.

[THC CELL]

Oh come on mock ups really not as if they was claiming its real ffs

[neomahi]

I doubt it, I bet this was a "Whoops!" that Microsoft quickly contacted them asking: "what are you doing? We haven't gotten this far yet." Yeah, I bet that's the case, not AMD just making something up. Real professional AMD.

[MarkyMark89]

It has less to do with professionalism and more to do with focus, they could care less about the Xbox in the slide or the Playstation in any of the future presentations. They are trying to win a chip race with Intel, the profit they made off last-gen CPU's supplying Sony and MS for next-gen is just pebbles in their pond.

Just to put this into perspective for you, they are currently selling about 82% of all CPU's worldwide due to the amazing price to performance on 3000's series Ryzen chips. Just 2-3 years ago they barely made up a quarter of all sales, shit 2010 they only made up like 10%. The money they make off sales to Sony and MS definitely help the overhead, don't get me wrong. But they are trying to fry way bigger fish, TR3 announcement just killed off Intel, at least for the time being. Then on top of that, the new 4800H and U chips are going to bring laptop gaming and gaming to Ultrathins, to almost a desktop level. Combined with the amazing stack they are already offering I don't see sales dropping anytime soon.

Overall prices have come down, people are buying and building again. The shit they have cooking on the CPU side is utterly amazing for the price, GPU department still needs a shit ton of work. Overall for AMD, they care less about next-gen consoles. You have to remember this is the company that makes the hardware the console companies need. AMD can walk a little closer to that, do not cross line, with Sony and MS because frankly, everybody knows they will never go Intel and Nvidia, would be financial suicide.

[Tedakin]

I really hope it has the 2 HDMI ports to run the tv through like the Xbox One.... I love that feature, being able to control the TV with the xbox and smartphone, and get notifications while watching TV.

[TheColbertinator]

lmao smoke and mirrors set for E3

[LucidIllusion]

Tsk Tsk

[Shikoku]

Who cares?

[Damrock]

Interesting Amd stole the layout from a copyrighted image that someone made up....