[stefan_]

Nobody wants the console market in the first place, it's low-margin high-touch garbage. It's a good base-load, but if you could, you would rather sell that wafer worth of chips to datacenter applications or in a glossy box to gamers.

[hakfoo]

I wonder if the wafer angle is less the case because AMD is fabless. Intel, indeed, would lose the capacity, but AMD can farm out the Xbox One to a second-tier manufacturer or process while still cashing the cheque.

I also suspect there's a market positioning long game in controlling console chips. Every AAA title and major engine for the next 5-10 years is going to target 8-thread AMD CPUs, so you'd expect lazy ports to perform well on Ryzen for free.

[daemin]

It's not so much targeting 8-thread AMD CPUs but targeting multicore x64 CPUs in general. The differences between operating systems account for way more than the differences between Intel and AMD CPUs.