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Next-gen Xbox to be revealed in penultimate Xbox World issue?

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/379069/xbox-720-xbw-uses-penultimate-issue-to-tell-you-everything-we-know/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS


The mag has good form when it comes to next-gen Xbox leaks, having revealed in January Microsoft's plans for augmented reality, directional sound, and a four-player, finger-tracking Kinect, all of which were later confirmed in the now infamous leaked planning document in June.

Editor in chief Dan Dawkins told CVG: "Xbox World has been at the cutting edge of Durango coverage for over 12 months. Unless something really dramatic changes, everything we reveal in our penultimate issue will be revealed long before E3 in June."

According to the mag's final 'expos?', the next-gen Xbox - which it speculates is likely to be called simply "Xbox" - will introduce Kinect 2.0, use Blu-ray discs and feature directional audio, a TV output AND input, 'innovative controller' and - at a later stage of the console's life - AR glasses.

Current codename 'Durango' dev kits boast a CPU with "four hardware cores, each divided into four logical cores" and an impressive 8GB of RAM, XBW reports.

Xbox 720 Screenshot
Xbox World has used the Microsoft leaks and industry sources to come up with a 3D mock-up of what it expects the next-gen Xbox to look like.

"We built ours with the same glossy face and patented VapourMG magnesium alloy Microsoft uses for its Surface tablet, and modelled the silver band after its new 'Wedge' touch keyboard and flexible Arc Touch mouse," it writes. "The future will be black, sharp and curved."

To read the full 8-page feature, buy the latest issue of Xbox World online or on Apple Newsstand here (UK) or here (US).

PSM3 features an equally large feature on PlayStation 4 and you can buy that on iOS here (UK) or here (US).

http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_293659_orig.jpg

Thoughts on the looming next generation (which technically begins next week with the Wii U, even if it's technology on par with this generation)?
2012-11-17 01:49:00

Author:
RockSauron
Posts: 10882


Aww man, what a gyp... I thought it was real when I read the title.

Still, that is a sexy-looking mockup. I've been in Xbox Live withdrawal for a while...might be time to spring for a new Xbox and Halo 4
2012-11-17 03:24:00

Author:
Chazprime
Posts: 587


Aww man, what a gyp... I thought it was real when I read the title.

Still, that is a sexy-looking mockup. I've been in Xbox Live withdrawal for a while...might be time to spring for a new Xbox and Halo 4

You better be the same Chaz I think you are.

Anyway, as a known XBL advocate on these forums (I hate PlayStation other than for LBP and the fact I can play NCAA because they don't release it in the UK and PS is region free...) I will be slightly biased in saying: Halo 4 is ****ING AMAZING. I hated Reach and ODST - Halo 3 was really good fun and then it went... kinda wierd. 343 Studios have made it their own while making it feel more like a Halo game than anything recent from bungie.

Also, a new xbox means a newer, more realistic Forza, which means the leagues I race in will get better and better. I am ok with this.

Team VVV Fighting!
2012-11-17 04:11:00

Author:
Unknown User


One thing about that cover caught my attention:

"AC3: Desperate to be... Skyrim"

In just what universe does Skyrim own rights to open world or a landscape with snow involved? I fail to see how Assassin's Creed is closely related to The Elder Scrolls.
2012-11-19 03:02:00

Author:
CyberSora
Posts: 5551


One thing about that cover caught my attention:

"AC3: Desperate to be... Skyrim"

In just what universe does Skyrim own rights to open world or a landscape with snow involved? I fail to see how Assassin's Creed is closely related to The Elder Scrolls.

Agreed. I can't compare ANYTHING to each other with them.
2012-11-23 04:31:00

Author:
amoney1999
Posts: 1202


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