The Next XBox - Rumour Thread

Varik · 12-03-2012 10:57pm

satchmo wrote: »

In the US, three stores (Walmart, Best Buy & Gamestop) account for over 50% of all game sales. Driving pre-orders in these stores is also a huge part of the game marketing business (hence the 'pre-order exlusive' bonuses appearing in many big games). And more importantly, those stores also account for a large part of hardware sales. Microsoft and Sony just aren't going to alienate those retailers by going digital-only, there isn't even any debate.

A lot of different retailers sell games among other things, Gamestop just sell games. Sony/MS/Nintendo need them to sell more, but Gamestop need them to even exist.

Sony lived through a $200 loss on each PS3 at launch, but how long could Gamestop last without any new releases. A smaller developer could be forced into doing what they want but remember how little resulted in steamworks boycotts.

gizmo · 12-03-2012 11:01pm

chrismon wrote: »

Would hate for my account to get hacked :eek:
Wouldnt just lose my gamer points then!

You could only lose games if you could transfer the game off the account or couldn't get your account back. Neither of which are either likely or possible I'd say.

Zeouterlimits · 15-03-2012 3:52pm

Good, sensible article by Kuchera about why there won't be a disc-less '720' or a DD only console.

blatantrereg · 15-03-2012 4:43pm

They're just going round in circles in the new generations of xbox consoles

briany · 15-03-2012 6:23pm

Overheal wrote: »

also think ahead to two years from now. and look two years behind. Ireland enjoys internet speeds right now that you wouldn't have been able to imagine 5 years ago.

Sadly, my area's currently being overlooked by the lords of fibre UPC so those nice and relatively cheap speeds are unattainable for me. Funnily enough, had you told me five years ago that Eircom would "upgrade" us from 1 meg BB to 8 meg (really only 2 or 3 for most of us) with a paltry data cap, I'd have said it wouldn't happen for Eircom's apathy and the customer exodus it would surely invoke. It happened.

gizmo · 15-03-2012 10:13pm

On a related note, as expected Microsoft have confirmed the next Xbox will not be at E3 this year.

gizmo · 02-04-2012 2:15pm

And the rumour mill continues...

The next XBox will require an always on internet connection and come with two GPUs.

:pac:

ShadowHearth · 02-04-2012 2:19pm

gizmo wrote: »

And the rumour mill continues...

The next XBox will require an always on internet connection and come with two GPUs.

:pac:

1st april was yesterday m8! :pac:

gizmo · 02-04-2012 2:20pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

1st april was yesterday m8! :pac:

Well since we've gone from a 6670 GPU to dual 7000-class GPUs I'd at least hope people would take these rumours with a slight pinch of salt.

ShadowHearth · 02-04-2012 2:39pm

gizmo wrote: »

Well since we've gone from a 6670 GPU to dual 7000-class GPUs I'd at least hope people would take these rumours with a slight pinch of salt.

Indeed. I kept reading and I was like.... Wtf? Let alone constant online connection needed is just a pure sign of rumor. They are not that stupid... Are they? Then again: it will be 4 or 6 core CPU... Might aswell stick in 10core CPU with hyper threading just to be sure.

Helix · 02-04-2012 2:40pm

might have a bit of info about this next month, depending on what i can weasel out of a few people off the record

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