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Next Xbox console to be six times more powerful, headed for fall 2013 release?
BY JOSEPH VOLPE
POSTEDJAN 24TH 2012 06:18PM
Xbox 720, Xbox Loop -- whatever Microsoft ends up calling it, that hot rod of a console looks to be on deck for a late fall 2013 release. According to IGN's sources, this successor to the Redmond gaming throne is purported to pack a GPU based on AMD's 6000 series of chips and will boast silicon circuitry that catapults its performance past Nintendo's upcoming Wii U by 20 percent. If you're looking for a more apples to green X's comparison, this next-gen console's graphical capabilities are also reportedly six times greater than its 360 progenitor. While MS is likely holding back its monstrous new platform for a big E3 reveal, it appears the company's still whittling down its spec list, with dev kits to be issued later this August. No mention was made of its rumored Kinect 2 integration, but we're more than certain that famous hacking tech will be front and center.
BY JOSEPH VOLPE
POSTEDJAN 24TH 2012 06:18PM
Xbox 720, Xbox Loop -- whatever Microsoft ends up calling it, that hot rod of a console looks to be on deck for a late fall 2013 release. According to IGN's sources, this successor to the Redmond gaming throne is purported to pack a GPU based on AMD's 6000 series of chips and will boast silicon circuitry that catapults its performance past Nintendo's upcoming Wii U by 20 percent. If you're looking for a more apples to green X's comparison, this next-gen console's graphical capabilities are also reportedly six times greater than its 360 progenitor. While MS is likely holding back its monstrous new platform for a big E3 reveal, it appears the company's still whittling down its spec list, with dev kits to be issued later this August. No mention was made of its rumored Kinect 2 integration, but we're more than certain that famous hacking tech will be front and center.
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Microsoft will shoot themselves in the foot with this one. People will not be so free with their money to try/buy games because there won't be a secondary market for them.
Funny to look at the poll... but the original topic is from 2006... when things were still booming and cruising along...
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horrible thing to even consider doing
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I believe Steam is already doing this, and people who use Steam generally love it, myself included. You technically can't sell a used game to anyone if you have it on Steam, unless you sell them your whole account (which in itself is forbidden by Steam IIRC)
Serious business implications aside, I'd welcome Steam onto my console. The sales, oh god the sales, BUY ALL THE THINGS!!!
Serious business implications aside, I'd welcome Steam onto my console. The sales, oh god the sales, BUY ALL THE THINGS!!!
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So David Cutler who is considered "The Father of Windows NT" (which is the foundation of windows for the past 20 years) has joined the Xbox team. As has Hoi Vo one of their experts in hypervisor (virtual machines). Dave is a guy who is so revered he can work on pretty much whatever he wants at MS and apparently that's the Xbox.
The hyper-v makes me think that they'll be providing backward compatibility with 360 games by running it in a VM.
MS is really positioning the Xbox to me much more than a gaming platform as you've seen with the latest platform updates and I'd expect this to really show itself with the next Xbox.
When the 360 it was designed to be mainly gaming and do a little entertainment but that focus has shifted over the years as more entertainment features are added and MS is trying to be at the center of home entertainment. I'm sure the Xbox 720 is being designed from the beginning for entertainment to be a major focus of the platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/...-on-xbox/11684
The hyper-v makes me think that they'll be providing backward compatibility with 360 games by running it in a VM.
MS is really positioning the Xbox to me much more than a gaming platform as you've seen with the latest platform updates and I'd expect this to really show itself with the next Xbox.
When the 360 it was designed to be mainly gaming and do a little entertainment but that focus has shifted over the years as more entertainment features are added and MS is trying to be at the center of home entertainment. I'm sure the Xbox 720 is being designed from the beginning for entertainment to be a major focus of the platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/...-on-xbox/11684
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not what im talking about...
yea, im sure the graphics cards these days can handle it, even the low end ones. Heck even my X1950XT from the same time period as the PS3 can handle games at 1920x1080.
you know when the ps3 and xbox 360 came out, i thought it was rendering the images at 1920x1080, but no its actually rendering way less than 1280x720 and scaling it up.
yea, im sure the graphics cards these days can handle it, even the low end ones. Heck even my X1950XT from the same time period as the PS3 can handle games at 1920x1080.
you know when the ps3 and xbox 360 came out, i thought it was rendering the images at 1920x1080, but no its actually rendering way less than 1280x720 and scaling it up.
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yea maybe i mis understood you...
btw most games on PS3 and Xbox are not even rendered at 720p, they are rendered at a much less resolution and scaled up to 1080p.
much like how a DVD is at 720x480 and scaled up to 1080p
btw most games on PS3 and Xbox are not even rendered at 720p, they are rendered at a much less resolution and scaled up to 1080p.
much like how a DVD is at 720x480 and scaled up to 1080p
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