From the point of view of an uncompromising supporter of advanced technical solutions, the Microsoft Project Scorpio game console will be woven from half-measures. The graphics system Polaris generation will use only elements of Vega architecture, and a central processor with eight cores will at all rely on the Jaguar architecture. Why did Microsoft abandon the use of the AMD Zen architecture that gave life to the Ryzen processors?
Colleagues from the site TweakTown tried to find the answer to this question in the comments of Microsoft representative . First, the architecture of the Project Scorpio console was predetermined many years before it appeared on the market. Processors Ryzen fit into this console, Microsoft just would not have had time. Especially since Microsoft has done a lot of work on optimizing performance with the use of existing components. To make changes in the form of introducing a new processor architecture would be risky.
Secondly, AMD's more advanced processor architecture would cost Microsoft more. And although we still do not know how much will cost Project Scorpio, it is obvious that Microsoft is interested in reducing the cost price - at least for the sake of increasing the rate of return. Perhaps, these are the main reasons why the AMD Zen architecture did not register in the Microsoft gaming console new generation.