A leaked document purporting to show Microsoft’s plans for the Xbox 720 has been circulating widely, with plenty of attention being attracted by its low price and even lower specs.
According to the leaked document, apparently an internal company presentation circulated in 2010, the Xbox 720 would:
Have a Blu-ray drive
Have various hardware options including SSD, HDD, Wifi, Wimax, etc.
Be 6 to 8 times more powerful than the 360
Have 360 compatibility
Incorporate “Kinect 2”
Have full native 3D support
Be accompanied by the 2014 release of “Kinect Glasses”
Be priced at $299, for release in 2013
Sell 100 million units
The document’s provenance and authenticity is of course unknown, but the fact that the original 56-page PDF file it came as was taken down only hours after it went up at the request of a legal firm with ties to Microsoft may be telling.
However, as the document dates from 2010, even should it be authentic it is possible significant changes could have been made to their plans in the interim.
Microsoft itself has not so far publicly released any meaningful information about its plans for an Xbox successor console.
oh for f♥♥k sake, this gag /v/ put up finally got caught?
Oh great another high-powered machine that will make its execs go with lotsa excuses if it doesn’t sell.
Whatever Microsoft’s gaming division’s cooking up for real, it better have wifi. Needing a wireless internet adapter is stupid.
Apparently it’s true! The 56 page PDF was leaked and Xbox have confirmed this, they even had lawyers take down the files off various websites…
So what? Let it be 6-8 times more powerful, what does that even mean? That doesn’t make the games any more enjoyable at all. If there is one thing that is for certain, then it’s the decline of quality for games over the last years.
Sure they look all nice, they have great graphics and all that s♥♥t (apparently, it’s still not good enough though) but what about the game? The big titles, that used to be console sellers are now shallow husks of their former selfs with crisp graphics.
There’s a very “virus” going around the gaming industry to make games into a “cinematic, epic experience”. It’s basically turning games into limited interactive slideshows. Quick time events, choices inbetween cutscenes or cutscenes that are literally paused for short gaming parts.
No amount of computing power will ever save a game that isn’t a game by every sense of the word.
The problem with THIS generation of consoles is really not a problem of “power”. It’s a problem a stagnant or recessive dedication.
Actually, yeah, games definitely can improve from better graphics.
You can’t have La Noire on an N64, for instance.
Better technology = more opportunities = better games in the long run.
Then tell me why gaming quality is in decline!
With guys like you it’s always more, more more. What is this “more” contributing to the experience? FF13/FF13-2, the Mass Effects, TES games to name such a few. All of those are constantly improved on on a graphical level but they BLEED out on the gaming part. With each new iteration they get dumbed down, with each new title they lose more of their soul.
Sorry but no. I have old DOS games that are a million times more of a gaming experience than those “opportunities”.