Rumor: Microsoft developing two next-gen Xbox 720 consoles

Do you mean the 2002 Xbox when you say "original" I believe the original did support 1080i or 7201 in the dashboard or something like that with a 3rd-party connector.

Although with the Xbox 360 there is huge difference between *supports* and *can*. Dashboard can be in 1080P, yes, although almost every game is 720P or less. With the exception of a extremely few games that support 1080P, I'm pretty sure the number of games that can run in 1080P is in the single digits.

It was released originally with 720p and 1080i capability and then updated to support 1080p via component video (pre HDMI). I had the HD-DVD add on and a Samsung HL-S5088W 50" DLP which also supported 1080p via component. Great for gaming since image retention or burn-in isn't an issue with a DLP.

Believe you're right about the vast majority of games being 720p, haven't done a lot of gaming on the XBox for while so am not up to date on how many 1080p titles have been added.

Note: Was referring to the original XBox 360.

why would they add loads of RAM? RAM is used for when you have multiple applications running at once. On a PC, you will have quite a few going at once, on an xbox you wont. 2GB will be easily more than enough

common guys 2GB is too much compared to current xbox360 as you know its only 512mb besides i don't think that more than 2GB is needed for gaming because very big amount of data can be rendered on it and its enough for all visible environments

Quote: "We could see hard evidence of the next-gen console as early as January at CES. Rumors suggest the 720 could contain a six-core CPU, AMD graphics and 2GB of DDR3 memory."

Wait a sec....nex gen?
Doesn't the PS3 already have 8 cores?
1 for the OS, 6 for gaming, plus another spare?

So...Xbox 720 wouldn't be next-gen....it would be playing catchup!? :|

Id say 2gig ram would be a minimum. Allow the devs to put more stuff on screen.

the 2 gb is probably dedicated video RAM....which is a decent amount to buffer graphics

wow 8gb of ddr3 laptop for 50 bucks
wat laptop do you have???????????