AMD has confirmed that Zen 3 is 'on track' and set for launch around 2020, potentially just a year after the second-gen Zen chips are released. The brand new Zen 2 gaming CPU architecture might not have that long a shelf life...
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for week of June 2, 2025 to June 8, 2025.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch 2 – 947,931 (New)
PlayStation 5 – 14,535 (5,690,661)
Switch OLED Model – 8,040 (9,060,680)
Switch Lite – 6,089 (6,581,795)
PlayStation 5 Pro – 4,230 (218,056)
Switch – 2,482 (20,109,545)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,017 (974,094)
Xbox Series S – 163 (337,686)
Xbox Series X – 113 (320,660)
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 57 (20,820)
PlayStation 4 – 24 (7,929,628)
So its official. Switch 2 dethroned PS2 in Japan for the biggest hardware launch ever.
Tripled the switch launch numbers, yeah Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market is going smooth
And take note. This is just for retail sales only; sales from the Nintendo Japanese website are not yet included.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer explains that the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is Microsoft's best collaboration between gaming and Windows teams.
Next Level Racing just revealed an officially licensed flight simulation cockpit for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and MSFS 2020.
Tempting... but I have to say I am more of an arcade deluxe cab fan. I loved the ones for Galaxy Force, Thunder Blade and After Burner.
AMD's Roadmap for Zen has been available for 5 or more years. This shouldn't be a suprise, CPU's and video cards always get refreshes.
This is hardly newsworthy.
Go to Zen 3 pretty much
So wait for Zen 3 then build my PC cause then I can either get Zen 3 or a much discounted Zen 2
I'm going to wait and see what PS5 brings about and then make a decision about a gaming PC. I've been eyeing the (reasonable) top of the line stuff for two years now. I've noticed you get the best of the best parts at around 2800€ (not the best bang for buck, but after that it just gets increasingly incremental.) This would complete my PS5 for exclusives and PC for multiplats gaming platforms for at least from 2020 to 2024. Then maybe an upgrade of an GPU to PC and for PS5 get the Pro edition.