The console business model of subsidized hardware and platform specific-exclusives is coming to an end.

Semiconductors costs have gone up and they will only continue to get even more expensive. At the same time, graphics are reaching a “good enough” phase, where marginal increases in fidelity require exponentially more processing power.

It also doesn’t make financial sense to not eventually release games on PC (if not have a same day multi-platform release).

I think by this point, the only option is breakup and mandatory federation with independent frontends, service providers all competing against each other. They have a monopoly.

Google would argue they don’t really have a monopoly since they compete against streaming, but that’s a malicious, pre-information age interpretation of monopoly power.

Specifically, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon teased that next-generation Snapdragon X series chipsets will be ‘truly incredible’ and will bring ‘excitement back to computing performance’.

That’s what they said about the first release of Snapdragon X Elite as well.

Turns out the initial Geekbench 6 benchmarks that showed mind-blowing results were run on custom hardware on Linux (Linux is still badly supported by Snapdragon X Elite devices) with non-representative cooling. To my knowledge, no released products have come close to these results.