The next Xbox

[Coca Cola Duracell Franklin.]

Extremely linear and scripted games tend to have "better" graphics thanks to the conservation of polygons when rendering relatively smaller playing areas. It's no surprise that barely-interactive games like "Heavy Rain" "look" better in comparison to world-builders like Oblivion. It's not so much a hardware issue as it is a game design issue.

[Iceman]

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/01/2...dfc2245c00002e

PS4: Sony Will Let Microsoft Make First Move

[grout]

But what if Microsoft reads this article and then waits for Sony to make the 1st move? NNNOooooooo

[Havok83]

Originally Posted by Coca Cola Duracell Franklin.

Extremely linear and scripted games tend to have "better" graphics thanks to the conservation of polygons when rendering relatively smaller playing areas. It's no surprise that barely-interactive games like "Heavy Rain" "look" better in comparison to world-builders like Oblivion. It's not so much a hardware issue as it is a game design issue.

I would hardly call Uncharted barely interactive though and it definetly looks better than all multiplatform games on both systems (and the 360 exclusives). Besides you are comparing one set of genre to another. Why not use something like Alan Wake which is more comparable to HR than Oblivion. Or Gears to Uncharted. If you think game design is the issue then compare games with more similar mechanics and ones which are drastically different by design

[The Squirrel]

Another possible system speck leak:
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-revealed.aspx

CPU:

x64 Architecture
8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz)
each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache
each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache
each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources
each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock

GPU:

custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor
12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads
each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle
at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second
High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present

Storage and Memory:

8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s)
32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s)
from the GPU’s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec.
Hard drive is always present
50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive

Networking:

Gigabit Ethernet
Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct

Hardware Accelerators:

Move engines
Image, video, and audio codecs
Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware
Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing

[Iceman]

I'm glad that all the different rumoured specs recently are a lot better than the rumours were a few months ago.

[Spideyfan93]

Just release some information already Micro!

[Iceman]

Hold E3 in Jan this year pls!

[Coca Cola Duracell Franklin.]

Rumors are swarming that both consoles will be announced before E3. I'm sure Sony and Microsoft both know the dates they will unveil, and it has nothing to do with the other's plans.

[grout]

Originally Posted by The Squirrel

Another possible system speck leak:
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-revealed.aspx

This sounds good,, but I think it needs more cow bell.

Joking aside we all know what history teaches us about new console rumors.. Just gotta wait and see.

[LuisTX85]

IF the rumors are true about the new console being released this year during the holiday season then they sure need to reveal the thing at any of the conventions or something before E3 and then launch games&price at E3.

It would be a huge rushed clusterfu** IF they wait to reveal the console/specs&features/games/the future for it plus 360 stuff all together

[Soapy]

Supposedly it's going to be revealed at GDC or possibly even sooner.

[Iceman]

When is GDC?

[Soapy]

March

[Iceman]

Sounds about right then.

[Soapy]

Yeah, GDC makes a lot of sense. Even more sense than E3 in my opinion. Because while we know the thing is coming and there are certain developers out there making games for it, we have to keep in mind that officially it doesn't exist. And there are many, many more developers out there that don't reside within Microsoft's inner circle who are probably itching for the thing to be officially announced so they can start buying devkits.

[Donut]

Announce it at GDC. Show it off at E3. Makes sense

[Grievous]

Will the new Xbox ship late this year or next year?

[The Squirrel]

Well if you read the thread you can see that it hasn't even been announced yet, and rumors state this year.

[SolarTiger]

Originally Posted by Donut

Announce it at GDC. Show it off at E3. Makes sense

When in March is the GDC?

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Soapy

Yeah, GDC makes a lot of sense. Even more sense than E3 in my opinion. Because while we know the thing is coming and there are certain developers out there making games for it, we have to keep in mind that officially it doesn't exist. And there are many, many more developers out there that don't reside within Microsoft's inner circle who are probably itching for the thing to be officially announced so they can start buying devkits.

Originally Posted by Donut

Announce it at GDC. Show it off at E3. Makes sense

Agreed with both above. I think we need to know about it before E3 so they can really go to town and that can be the definitive showcase before Thanksgiving/Xmas. If the announcement takes place at E3 it will take away some of the focus and potential positive surprise by itself. You can only absorb so much at one time and if for eg both PS4 & 360 were announced during E3 you would come away with less new info as a chunk of your brain is still dealing with facts that we'd be better off knowing in advance. I want E3 to be able to give a strong focus to the games coming out for each machine while the hardware specs & 1st look at the machines take place ahead of time.

[Coca Cola Duracell Franklin.]

Originally Posted by SolarTiger

When in March is the GDC?

March 25th - 29th.

[X Knight]

I hope the next XBOX makes it easier to transfer content from a USB stick to the hd.

it's annoying that I can't save my pictures, music, or video files directly to my 360's hd.

[Soapy]

The Xbox website was updated with a new tab called "The New Xbox", but this change was quickly undone.

There's not much to see, but someone managed to grab a screenshot:

Spoiler!!! Click to Read!:

Announcement possibly coming soon?

[The Squirrel]

Cool.