Rumor: Microsoft developing two next-gen Xbox 720 consoles

Yea, I thought 1 or more of the cores was integrated with the GPU chip to allow faster processing time with as little latency as possible?

herpaderp said:
2GB of RAM should be more than enough, seeing as how consoles run minimalist OSes and the games are optimized to hell and back....We've seen the impressive work console devs put out even with the paltry 256MB of system memory each console has, they should have no problems putting out much more impressive work with 8x the RAM.

Thats so true. Unfortunately most people don't see it that way. A good example is if my PC had only 512mb of ram to work with, I would have the crappiest graphics ever.

Im not buying one till i know if the build quality and reliability matches the impressive specs. The early model 360's were the ford pinto of the console world. The latest model 360 I own isnt bad. I actually feel confident it wiil last a few yrs.

these are just rumors dude...

Aslong as its runs my tetris

Looking forward to the new Xbox when it happens. Right now I jump between my 360 and PC for gaming. Though I like customizing, it seems a bit more convenient to plunk down $299/$399 for a complete game console versus paying that just for a PC video card.
My 360 is almost 6 years old and I haven't seen a single hiccup in performance. Wish I had a PC that would last that long without upgrades...

This is mostly irrelevent...!

Anyone with a PC and Window8, with be able to instantly creat a Virtual Xbox Machine and play and & all Xbox games on any Win8 PC with virtualization.

Even multiple Xboxes on different montiors in different rooms, if u have an 8 core, etc..!

Wow people on a website called "techspot" aren't very technically inclined based on the comments I have seen here!
You wouldn't have the "crappest graphics ever" with 512mb of RAM on a PC. Please understand how PC's work before posting nonsense.
And asking for 8GB of RAM in a console... my god. Find me a PC game that uses 1/2 of that. Just because it's available doesn't mean they should do. Leave it to the experts to build the consoles kids.

I think this article could be just a troll.
NextGen 720??

I've played Red Faction on PS3 in 1080
I'd say perhaps this article is not a troll if it stated 4kx4k....i'm surprised no one caught on to this.

The ram you find in that console is different than the gskill sticks you wannabe's are picking up at newegg for 30 bucks. As a matter of fact, the architecture is entirely different across the board.

Your move, Sony!

'Big Blue' is IBM and HP is Hewlett-Packard. Wonder what kind of optical drive we're talking about, surely it would have to be Blu-Ray.

Last I read microsoft only stated that xbox live was going to have full integration in windows 8. People seem to have extrapolated that this means you'll be able to play xbox 720 games on pc.

Battlefield 3, Starcraft 2 and even Crysis 1 can all EASILY swallow up 1.2GB RAM and I've seen all three peak just over 1.5GB RAM being used. And Battlefield 3 could have used more but they had to work with the consoles and not every PC would have been able to run it to DICE's satisfaction if they continued to bump it up more because most gaming PCs vary in specs. It's also for future-proofing. In 2005 256MB RAM was a decent amount to work with, in 2012 it's barely anything.

Also, the more RAM they have, the more they can leave in Standby RAM once "closed" thus increasing overall system performance/loadtimes/responsiveness.

2GB might be fine for TODAY but you have to remember MS/SONY want these things to last ~10 years.

What are we gonna play on this thing, old games? We want new games M$oft!!! I dont want a X-Box 720 to play Halo & gears....! Give me new exclusives! Thank goodness for my PS3.

Ok well i've I was to take a fairly good guess I'd say it'll have 2GB of shared RAM between the system and graphics card, similar to todays xbox but more. The proccessor will have 4-6 cores, possibly 8 depending what IBM cooks up. The Graphics card will probably not be anything special, around t 460GTX level or similar level. Overall, nothing to see here...

I don't mind Gears of Warrologue or whatever running with twice the fancy. Coop gameplay can be much better in terms of graphical quality. Halo 4 could use the whole screen in splitscreen coop instead of gimping it with black bars down the sides!

Naming 720 is a retarded idea, people hate that the current xbox 360 is only 720p, why remind people of there past folly?

Actually, the XBox 360 supports 1080p and has since the orignal console.

If u own Windows 8, u own a Xbox...

Coincidentally, for the stand-alone console, the specs will be DDR3 4GB RAM, 1GB of Vram DDR5..