A very interesting rumor has surfaced on Reddit about what the Redmond-based tech giant might be preparing for fans after the Xbox Series.

According to the post, which has since been deleted, Microsoft’s next console will be a new model that the company has dubbed Generation. According to the poster, Redmond has previously expressed its intention to launch an upgradeable console. This is what Xbox Generation intends to follow. According to him, the graphics card, RAM and SSD will be interchangeable in Microsoft’s new device.

This generation approach should be announced as early as 2025 and Microsoft wants to run it until 2030, which seems an unusual decision because by 2027-2028 the next generation Xbox should be on the shelves, which Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has already said will be the biggest technological leap forward ever, but we doubt it because Microsoft could have made a bigger step between Xbox and Xbox 360 in 2005 when the latter was an HD console. ..

But think about it: an Xbox graphics card? Until now, the graphics chip has usually been an element welded to the motherboard, because consoles are closed hardware: it appears as it is and is not significantly modified (the CPU/GPU/RAM trio is fixed, but you can redesign other elements, for example…), so developers can predictably develop games for the platform. Microsoft has complicated this with the Xbox Series, as two versions have been released, and Redmond has made it mandatory to support the Xbox Series S, not just the Xbox Series X, even though the latter has much more powerful hardware.

Of course, this is just a rumor, but let’s think about it for a moment. Replaceable parts? We’ve seen this kind of thing before: in the case of computers, for example, these can be the very things that don’t need to be reinstalled (graphics card drivers, yes, but it’s not that complicated).

Source: Reddit