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ARM would be a reasonable alternative. Unity/UE5 already support it due to mobile and Nintendo Switch, and consoles are usually more power/thermally constrained than desktops, so AMR in many ways would be a better alternative than x64.

Plus PlayStation is big enough that if they went ARM, game devs would have to follow.

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MBCook1y ago

But were there fast/powerful enough ARM chips to be competitive with what ended up in the PS4/XBox One?

They certainly exist today. But could Sony and Microsoft have chosen them or would they have had to have them developed?

someNameIGOP1y ago

I'm not sure, the Jaguar CPUs in them were pretty underpowered at the time too, they were tablet/netbook level. I think they were in some ways a bit of a downgrade in CPU performance compared to the Cell in the PS3.

Biggest issue at the time would have been an ARM CPU with a decent GPU if they wanted a SoC instead of having them separate dies

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