TFP: Even more clues within Windows 8 are pointing towards a next-gen Xbox system running on the same OS (or an SKU of Win8).
Microsoft is laying off more employees, a new round after they cut thousands last year. It seems like many big tech companies are doing the same.
Xbox February update is here to save the planet!
Xbox Cloud Gaming lets you play more than 100 games without lengthy downloads.
Sounds reasonable though. Let's face it, we are living in a society where systems are fast becoming integrated into one another. In the grand scheme of things, there are no longer such things as dedicated gaming consoles. Now you can hook up to the web, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It only makes sense to simplify the platform and I also see a ray of hope for PC gaming, since Xbox and PC devs MAY have an easier task and porting games back and forth. I am glad that they are getting rid of GFWL but I don't know how restrictive their new platform might be. Just hope they don't BS us with DRM and what not.
I'll have to pass up on the next Xbox if this turns out to be true...
If next Xbox is really going to use standard x86 Intel or AMD CPU and AMD Radeon, it will be interesting to compared similar configured PC hardware. Reason is developers now has less excuse to not optimize the games the very best possible than simply ask the gamers to buy faster hardware.
Why do fewer PC gamers care if the games are optimized the best possible on lower end hardware? Most want the excuse to feel like the top of the line PC hardware is more "needed" than having the code as optimized as possible to run better.
I can imagine many PC gamers will disagree with me here because they need the feel of the need to have high end hardware.
Microsoft has previously stated that x360 games will be playable on windows8 , I don't think that all of them will be, probably only Live stuff etc.
And this is x360 error not x720
the new Xbox should be like a PC so it depends of your wallet how powerful you want it to be.