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said Wednesday that it will send video game developers prototypes of its next-generation Xbox console in 2027, as the company tries to narrow the gap with Nintendo and Sony.

The hardware will feature a custom chip from Advanced Micro Devices

, Jason Ronald, a vice president in Microsoft’s Xbox division, said in a blog post.

“It delivers an order of magnitude leap in ray tracing performance and capability, integrates intelligence directly into the graphics and compute pipeline, and drives meaningful gains in efficiency, scale, and visual ambition,” Ronald wrote. “The result is more realistic, immersive, and dynamic worlds for players.”