You gotta love earnings calls. Roughly 99% of the time, they are the most boring events on the face of the Earth. But there's that 1% – maybe a mere minute or two of a two-hour phone call – that all hell breaks lose.
This happened recently when AMD CEO Lisa Su told investors about "three design wins" in the Semi-Custom design business that point directly to at least one new console in 2016.
Price drops for current-gen
At a roundtable held at CES this year, Su told techradar that she expected price drops for the PS4 and Xbox One in the near future.
"Consoles tend to be very sensitive to price point, we see that as price comes down console [sales] volume goes up, and that will afford an opportunity to do that in this cycle," Su explained.
Clearly Su's answers aren't as rock-solid as a straight-up announcement of a new console, but the announcement of three new AMD-powered designs does add one more piece of evidence to a slowly growing case file pointing to new systems in 2016.
