Just thought I'd bring this up

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html

Opinions? Too Early? Just in Time?

I see no raisin to leave the 360 within the next couple years for 3D gimmicks and Kinect 2 peripherals.

Agree with you on that haha "raisin" I just finished playing Old World Blues yesterday

I have to agree with this entirely. Features are nice, especially if they actually compliment gameplay/The hardware its being used for, but they aren't a selling point at all. I mean, who bought Minecraft or Starcraft 2 just to play it in 3D? People didn't exactly Fly to the stores to purchase Starfox 64 3D just because they heard it was 3D(pun intended). 3D is a nice feature to have, but is not a selling point. Games and technology will do that.


Blu-Ray support is awesome. My major issue with it though is load times. Only real way to counteract this is to download/install the game to the HDD. Hopefully they will have a suitable HDD at launch built into the fucking machine to compensate for this.


Wish it was more but DDR4? Unff...



Only 6 times performance support? So its as powerful as most DX10 cards? This is what makes me think its a rumour. It would be a stupid decision to choose to launch console hardware that couldnt do DX12 and didnt have the ability to support DX13 (possibly?) software as well. This isn't prepping for the future trying to last another 5-7 years, this is just stagnating the market with shitty hardware.


Hah! The current gen consoles barely do 720p without upscaling (360 and PS3). The hardware literally cannot take it. Even then they have to do rendering and loading tricks, like scale down the FPS (most modern console games run at 30FPS), have weapons and guns take up more screen space so its easier on the engine to render less of whats on the screen at a time, and lower the field of view (FoV in Call of duty: modern Warfare 2 is 65. Ouch!).


..Its a computer.


This article seems just baseless rumour to me. Please let this be fake.

A migration to x86 would be a blessing tho. Especially when the hardware becomes stale and dated (Yeah it will probably be behind PC on launch), you can turn that sucker into a Linux machine. Similar to MintPPC for the 360 today.

It would also help for development between PC & 360, as they suggest.

If it means better third party support for PC? I'm all for it. Its too bad I wont have to replace anything in my rig for the next decade if this article is true.

So theres been an apparent power point presentation leak that microsoft is actively trying to cover up. I'm not so sure about posting Pirate bay links here, but if you PM me Ill send you the link so you can get the file yourself.

From what I'm reading, The article posted in this thread seems to be fairly legit when compared to this article. Some of the technology they are planning looks fucking sweet though.

Couldn't you just tell us what was on it instead of linking to it?

Not sure that the current rumours about the 720 are going to make me continue considering achange from ps to xbox...