The word is that AMD has struck a deal with Microsoft to put their chips in the next Xbox product. In a way, your current Xbox, the Xbox 360, has AMD chips in it, as the company merged with graphics chip company ATI awhile back. It seems that Microsoft liked the 360's GPU so much that they were happy to work with ATI again.
Oh, and there's supposedly backwards compatibility built in these new ATI chips. That'll be nice, won't it?
So when's this new Xbox coming? The rumor is 2012, so let's hope your 360 keeps on ticking. Hey, I've got a related question on the new Xbox: WHO IS WORKING ON THE COOLING AND RELIABILITY?
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10:40 AM on 10.14.2009
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PS:atleast we know that its gona end the world than.
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Haha, I think MS will be out of the console business if they don't get it right this time. I just hope it won't come out until the end of 2012, I'm just not ready for a new investment.
Unless of course they go the Wii route... which would suck.
Are you joking or being serious? I can't tell. Do you really think the 360 was ever more powerful then a PC could be? Come on man.
Please back up your statement on how they'll be out of the console business when they seem to be doing just fine.
I really hope it is backwards compatible. I'm also pretty sure it'll have Blu-Ray. Who knows, maybe by 2012 we'll have Live for free! I can dream, can't I?
I also am excited to see what the new red-ring will be. VERY excited. Or maybe they'll be like Playstation when they moved from their 2nd to 3rd console...they'll fix all the nasty problems (my PS2 has broken more then my Xbox 360 has, for the record).
Also I'm interested in seeing how thwy handle their format problem, were about to get rid of dvd and it seems MS is still allergic to blu-ray.
Ouch.. I'm still using my PS2 from late 2001. Granted, it suddenly seems as if it's stopped playing DVD movies for some reason, which is odd. But, other then that it still works great.
Yeah...I got the common "disc read errors" for a while on my PS2Fat, but I managed to figure out how to fix them for the most part. That worked great (just had to open the PS2 every few months and mess with the laser) until the disc drive died completely.
Second ps2 did the same thing, this time I couldn't fix it again.
I'm on a PS2-Slim now I've had for about three years, but the damn thing loads freaking slow and won't play DVD movies anymore.
Compare that to my Xbox, which I've had for about a year and a half, and it's never broken, even with near-constant playing.
Go figure.
I'm talking about the generation after the one that has yet to come, obviously I'm speculating. With the luck of having a great software collection, reforming its customer support and the fact that the first Xbox was solid, when it came to reliability, MS has managed to avoid a lot of bad PR. However, if the next one is just as unreliable, the X360 will stand as a precedent, not only legally but psychologically to a lot of customers.
I should have mentioned too that having Windows 7 and the Zune as a reference, I doubt MS will commit the same mistake.
Too bad the world will end during that year on December 21, because there's undeniable proof backed up by top scientists around the world to prove this and not just what some ancient people thought. There had better be great launch games to tie us over before we all die, instead of the usual "get good games later on during the console's life span".
Wait...nevermind. Can we hold off on this for a while? I still need to get a PS3 and work on my this gen back catalouge.
I know I will be inline day 1 to purchase whatever they come out with......but then again I am there day 1 for all systems.
Its a win/win for them.
While the blu ray association consists of a a lot of companies now I believe the founding fathers of blu ray are phillips and sony and everyone else were just partners that joined up along the way if memory serves me correctly. Its safe to say sony has a heavy say in what happens concerning the product.
Thers also another issue in that MS (and toshiba)was offered a chance to settle the whole blu ray HD dvd and turned it down, so if they do want blu ray now it seems they would have to clear some bad blood first(that's not exactly something MS is know for).
Sony wasn't the only company they pissed off when they did that,A lot companies had to burn money fighting that HD svs blu ray fight and thanks to the recession I doubt they made it back. So as far as the blue ray association is concerned they might have more enemies than freinds there.
But I do think sony would license blu ray to MS, they would just get the short end of the stick as far as royalties are concerned.Somthing that's pretty bad for MS because if they get shorted to much they will end up fueling a lot of their rivals productions, damn near ensuring sony would have superiority any way you slice it.MS made their console to have influence in the gaming world, not give it to another company.
So blu ray sounds like the obvious option but don't be surprised if MS's new machine is download only or still using DVDs,cause the blu ray path is inaccesable to them at the moment and the toll might be to high a price for them to pay.
And the kessin of the day: don't burn bridges you have to use.
You think so? If anything I think the next generation of consoles will be worse. Consumers have showed that they can get away with making junk hardware. Why would they change?