nelsonroyale
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Seems to be inline with previous rumours...
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Ubisoft dev: Xbox 720 "aligned with what Sony announced"
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Seriously, either show it this month or just wait until E3.
Depends when in May I guess. But I think it's the right thing to have a dedicated event. Whilst I'm sure Durango can go to toe with the PS4 unfettered attention is surely better.
gaming_noob
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What would be wrong with those replies? There's been no official statement from MS that they're announcing anything in May.
Alcoholikaust
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Rösti
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I'm more interested in seeing the announcement of the event. From announcement of PlayStation Meeting 2013 to reveal of PS4 there were twenty days. If it's in May (Paul Thurott suggested the 21st) then maybe we'll have to wait a few days more, but Microsoft's Fiscal Year 2013 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call is on the 18th of April so maybe we can get a few tidbits from that (it's their remaining conference call before E3 anyway). It would be fun with some kind of ARG like OurColony for Xbox 360 in 2005. They have that xboxevent.com domain registered, so why not launch it with some kind of cryptic message or image puzzle for us to solve?
MS has not even announced there is a new console coming out
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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they didn't wait till e3 for the 360....
Durango's CPU's memory controller doesn't have GDDR5 support.
The concept of Kinect captured people's imaginations, however briefly. And it was a huge sales success by all accounts. Plenty of people are still receptive to the concept. I think it's quite possible that Microsoft could recapture that earlier excitement if they demonstrate improved tech capable of new and better things.
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Rösti
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The thread for MTV Presents Xbox: The Next Generation Revealed is still open: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46948
E3 Expo 2005 was May 17-20, so the reveal was a week prior.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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As much as this is true, they started teasing it way early in March with viral marketing. We don't see none of it, and the only hint we are getting is from developers who are referring to "next-gen consoles".
EDIT: And yes, as Rosti said, it was right before E3.
shinobi602
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Rösti;52520772 said:
Wtf, revealing a brand new Xbox for the first time only got 9 pages lol?
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Well AMD APU's support both DDR and GDDR and we don't know for certain what Durango is. I'm not saying they are using GDDR, but there is no technical limitation.
EagleBurnn
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Hopefully we'll get to 10 this time!
Everyone's favorite motion sensing aside. I am expecting the voice recognition integration with the new OS to be outstanding
BibiMaghoo
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I agree with the first and second sentence here.
But what makes you think people are still positive about it in general? Surely that it was a popular concept only briefly suggests the excitement for it died out fairly quickly once people owned one.
I see fairly little positivity anywhere, for either the original Kinect or it's future incarnations. I'm certainly curious what gives you an impression otherwise.
Not a chance. Fads are fads because of the novelty factor, and by definition, something cannot be novel if it already exists in some form. After the fad phase, a product has to stand on its own two feet. It was the same with motion controls.
Kinect2 or whatever its called may very well be a solid piece of tech that people like, but there won't be anywhere near the same level of excitement and anticipation.
The next hypeable gaming peripheral will be something like Occulus Rift, or as I call it Nausea Rift.
pretty sure it is aligned with what Sony announced that makes it threadworthy
Criminal Upper
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Ouuuu....two really similar consoles?
Exciting times.
Exciting times.
DidntKnowJack
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Very excited to hear the next Xbox is going to be interactive. Welcome to the next generation of gaming.
Shalashaska161
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That doesn't tell us much of anything either. The rumored Durango specs are currently aligned with the PS4 ones. They're weaker, but it's nowhere near something like a Wii to 360 gap. They will play the same games no problem.
Microsoft and Sony are very close in terms of consoles sold, and Microsoft has had plenty of past and current failures. A "media focus" for a gaming console seems a very dangerous proposition to me in today's world of declining importance of cable (especially outside the US) and modern TVs that have all the important services built-in as well as plenty of cheap boxes being available that combine media functionality.
DragonSworne
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Has anyone said xbox720 is going to be powerful or impressive?
shinobi602
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Seriously though, that's insane haha.
Acheteedo
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It certainly seems this way, they're clearly feeling the burn from the early PS4 announcement.
I didn't even know about GAF back then, I was an IGN poster (eww I know.)
Maybe GAF was just not as big as it is now?
MS's E3 2006 conference thread only got 34 pages too. Sony's got 85. Nintendo got 79.
Not many MS fans in 2005-2006 I guess.
I've heard it described as possessing tremendous strength and cat-like reflexes.
360 was already out. Sony and Nintendo were showing their upcoming systems. Also, Sony was busy shooting itself in the foot multiple times at that conference.
DeFiBkIlLeR
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So it's going to be pretty much everything I'm not interested in, thought so.
See 'ya MS, was fun while it lasted, actually it was only fun from about 2001-2007, you know, when a games console was about..games.
It's been downhill at an accelerating rate of knots ever since.
See 'ya MS, was fun while it lasted, actually it was only fun from about 2001-2007, you know, when a games console was about..games.
It's been downhill at an accelerating rate of knots ever since.
that's because next gen didn't start until Sony said so.
That's been known for months now. Similar CPU, similar but weaker GPU, same amount of RAM but a different type (DDR3 vs GDDR5).
What does "aligned" mean in terms of tech, exactly? Nothing. Meaningless fluff.
true but realistically, on the level of mass market appeal... those small differences matter little since to most people the games will look the same
Games, services and execution.
He probably made this statement to convince shareholders that porting between the two consoles wouldn't be a problem.
Exactly. Which is what everyone expected from the get-go. PS4 and X720 are competing for the same audience, and the WiiU is just off doing its own thing.
You derived ask that from a PR fluff piece from Ubisoft? Gonna go out on a limb here and say Durango was never on your shopping list
Which will hopefully be the case this time around. Similar architectures and the ease of being able to port games would be nice this time around. Might help to curb some developer costs and development time.
Added bonus: no more flame wars over which system got the better 3rd party copy of a game and the screenshot comparison posts of this gen.
Alebrije
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Do not know , always will be people looking for the slightest difference between both consoles
One console future! Well on the bright side now you will only need to buy one or the other since they'll be almost exactly the same.
When I was at Pax East I attended a panel with famous composers. The composer for Fallout 3 and Fallout:NV was there. When asked what he was working on he said he couldn't talk about it now, but look forward to hearing about something on May 14th. It makes me think that we will see the unveil of Fallout 4 on that day, and I would be very surprised if that didn't conincide with MS's next system announcement. That's just my two cents though.
Well we really don't know that yet, and I probably wouldn't bet on it.
I think announcing just prior to E3 and ending off with a promise of more in-depth info and hands-on time at E3 would do a lot to raise hype.
Why flood us with info at E3 when there's a ton of info from everyone else?