[jcfrei]

This makes me wonder: If there's such a benefit from creating an integrated and specialized chip, will the next consoles follow the same approach? Will they be ARM based? If Microsoft and Sony follow this same model then PC games might be left behind with poorer graphics and fewer titles.

[h0l0cube]

Consoles are already like this. The PS4, for instance, had a unified memory access between it's GPU/CPU, and custom chips silicon were basically the norm for consoles PS3 and earlier across all manufacturers. The PS5 supports custom silicon to get insane SSD streaming straight to memory to have almost instantaneous download times. In fact, older Apples, the Amiga etc. from the 80s were all powered custom silicon. Apple is taking this trope from the console world, and using it to disruptive effect in the modern PC.