Matt Booty
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It's a new year for Xbox and as part of its campaign going beyond consoles, it seems we may see Microsoft gaming executives pop up at more tech events in general. With this in mind, CES '25 is currently underway, and apart from Jason Ronald appearing at the "future of gaming handhelds" panel, Microsoft's 'president of game content and studios' Matt Booty has now featured during AMD's keynote.

Not only did he reiterate how much of an incredible partner AMD has been across "every level of gaming" on the Xbox front, but he also announced Activision was "proud to partner closely with AMD" to optimise Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 for AMD Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics with FSR 4 "later this year".

Here's the full announcement:

"Technologies like FSR and frame generation make some of our most demanding games like Starfield run better, these optimisations give our teams more headroom, to not just push more pixels but to actually explore richer gameplay, deeper physics modelling and more robust systems. And this dynamic of hardware technology - enabling our devs to do more, continues in the future with FSR 4 on the latest graphics cards, bringing high-quality machine-learning upscaling to games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 later this year. Thank you... everyone at AMD for helping our teams achieve more."

And yes, while this Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 news technically only applies to PC, as The Verge's senior editor Tom Warren reminds us, it's seemingly part of Xbox's continued push to make "everything" an Xbox going forward:

In some other news on the Xbox front, Microsoft has also announced it will expand Xbox Cloud Gaming in 2025:

What are your thoughts about Xbox's ongoing partnership with AMD to power its systems and games? How about Xbox popping up at events like this? Let us know in the comments.

[source youtu.be, via x.com]