Rumor has it that Huawei is considering entering the gaming hardware market. It will start small with a gaming laptop. It was already on the way to doing so with the Honor Hunter V700, but the geopolitical situation has led to the sale. from Honor (phones, laptops and all). The Huawei gaming laptop is expected this year.
The sequel will be much more interesting – a game console to rival the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox. However, there are no details on what type of platform it will be. Based on the comparison to high-end consoles, it seems likely that it won’t be an ARM console like the Nintendo Switch, but something beefier.
Honor Hunter V700 gaming laptop specifications
AMD formed a joint venture with Chinese partners a few years ago to produce Zen processors. Perhaps an APU similar to the current PlayStation and Xbox is not out of the question. But that’s not a given – Huawei might want to try something with its own silicone designs.
Like HiSilicon Kunpeng 920 chip based on ARM instruction set. It was showcased in the MateStation B515 computer alongside the AMD Radeon 430 GPU. Swap in a beefier Radeon and you’ve got a solid foundation for a console. But what software will it work?
Last year Huawei launched the GameCenter, a Huawei Media Services-based gaming hub for Android. In January, he had an argument with Tencent Games and removed all titles published by Tencent from his store. Still, the GameCenter has plenty of Android games ready to be played.
With consoles, the most important thing is always the content and not the hardware, so having a bunch of Android games ready for launch day will be great. The other option would be a Linux-based operating system, but then Huawei will have to create a game catalog from scratch.
It won’t be Huawei’s first console, by the way, but we hope it will be better than the Tron console – a 2014 Tegra 4-based Android 4.2 Jelly Bean console that few people remember.
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