Microsoft announced earlier this week that it was once again working with AMD to build a next-generation gaming lineup that will include consoles, handhelds, PCs, cloud gaming, and accessories. There was a first video from Xbox President Sarah Bond detailing the company’s work with AMD to create a next-gen gaming experience that isn’t restricted to Xbox consoles and the Microsoft Store.

“This is all about building you a gaming platform that’s always with you, so you can play the games you want across devices anywhere you want, delivering you an Xbox experience not locked to a single store or tied to one device,” Bond said in a video published on Tuesday.

Yesterday, AMD followed up with a new video featuring Lisa Su, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of AMD, who teased the company’s upcoming chips for Microsoft’s Xbox ecosystem. “Moving forward, AMD will go beyond building custom chips for Xbox consoles to designing a full roadmap of gaming-optimized chips. Combining the power of Ryzen and Radeon for consoles, handhelds, PCs, and the cloud,” the exec said.

There was also a separate post from Jack Huynh, the Senior Vice President & General Manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, who hinted at a seamless “pick up where you left” off experience on Microsoft’s next-gen gaming devices. Huynh suggested that the partnership between AMD and Microsoft aims to make “the boundaries between player and experience” disappear, with games that “remembers where you left off – no matter where you play.”

🚀 Big vision. Bold partnership. And we’re just getting started.

What if… the boundaries between player and experience disappeared?

It looks stunning…

It responds to you…

It goes with you…

And it remembers where you left off — no matter where you play.

In this next… https://t.co/YWlERDTTyS

— Jack Huynh (@JackMHuynh) June 19, 2025

This isn’t really explicit, but Huynh seems to refer to the Quick Resume feature on Xbox Series X|S consoles that can save the state of multiple games, allowing players to jump back into them right where they left off. Quick Resume even works after an Xbox console has been shut down or unplugged, and it’s quite a standout feature on current-gen consoles.

Could AMD’s upcoming chips for Xbox consoles, handhelds, PCs, and cloud be able to deliver a similar pick up where you left off experience? Quick Resume never really became Xbox’s killer feature during this console generation, and it also has some limitations: First of all, it doesn’t work well with online service-based games, which may push players to the menu of the game when they resume suspended games. Moreover, you can’t really use Quick Resume if you play games on multiple consoles, as only one Quick Resume save is available per game and console.

While it would be nice to see Quick Resume come to Windows-based gaming handhelds and Xbox Cloud Gaming, it would be even better to have suspended games be saved in the cloud, so you could resume your session on another device. This Netflix-like experience could be what makes Quick Resume and Xbox Cloud Gaming the killer feature for the Xbox ecosystem.