becouse i dont have a 1080 hd tv but an old 720. and will the graphics be good or like the wii in standerd?
AGNES
Rumours has it that Halo 4 could be in development for release on the day Xbox 720 comes out. We all know that Bungie (the creaters for halo 1,2,3) have said that there won’t be a Halo 4 because they will not be creating another Halo game. But now rumours say that Gearbox are developing Halo alongside Microsft and release it with Xbox 720. Microsoft know that if they sell the Xbox 720 without a big selling game then hardly anyone will buy it, cause of the failure of the Xbox 360 having so many system problems, that is why they are trying to get Halo 4 going so that people will buy the 720. We know that our next-gen console won’t sell any good without a big selling game like Halo, with the failure of the Xbox 360, people will turn to Sony and buy the PS3 (and PS4). We have talked to Gearbox but no agreement has been made and Halo 4 is only a rumour at this point, if we can’t create a Halo 4 then our staff will look to combine with another company to create a whole new game (that hopefully will sell good) They were the words from a Microsoft executive.
SHONDA
Rumous has it that Intel wants Larrabee in Xbox 720 and are offering numerous amounts of deals for it to happen.
Intel is pulling out all the stops to get its Larrabee GPUs inside Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox (Xbox 720) or another console, according to The Inquirer citing unnamed sources.
As rumours go this doesn’t sound too off the mark. MS needs a graphics chip for the Xbox 720, and Intel, along with NVIDIA and AMD, will have suitable parts available. The bigger surprise would be that MS refused to even hear Intel’s sales pitch.
But the Inq has gone further to say that Intel is doing everything it can to table an deal MS can’t refuse, going so far as offering to do the engineering work on thermal design (hopefully ensuring we won’t ever see a repeat of the RROD nightmare), and is even prepared to hand over the rights so that MS can get the chip manufactured at any fab it chooses.
This would give MS a significant advantage in the next-gen console war as it would allow the console maker to book as much fab capacity as it wanted ensuring there is never a shortage of consoles on shop shelves; or it could shop around for the cheapest fab deal, meaning lower production costs and the ability to undercut Sony and Nintendo in the event of a price war.
Overall a deal like this would be very attractive and it’s unlikely either NV or AMD would be able to match it. So what’s in it for Intel?
The main motivation behind all this for Intel is developer support. The PC graphics card installed base is dominated by NV with around 60% and AMD with 30% (according to the Valve Hardware Survey), and it’s just basic economics that games developers will devote most of their resources to design and test their new titles on these two families of cards.
Unless Intel is prepared to put up cash to make it easy and/or worthwhile for developers to spend time writing a Larrabee code-path for their games with a program similar to NV’s TWIMTBP, it’s going to take a while before games optimised for Larrabee start appearing. At the same time it’s going to be hard to recommend gamers rush out to spend their hard earned money on a Larrabee card if there isn’t software to take advantage of it. Chicken and egg.
Intel getting Larrabee inside the Xbox 720, or one of the other next-gen consoles, would change this situation. Some developers my not be too happy about having to learn the peculiarities of the new hardware platform, but that won’t stop them (see the reaction to the PS3 as an example) because the potential return on investment is much greater in the console market. The promise of being able to port those games over to the PC would be extra icing on the cake.
Overall this news sounds pretty good for gamers. If Larrabee doesn’t get in at least one next gen-console, it’s going to take a while before we see games that really take advantage of the new hardware except for a few Intel-backed titles. On the other hand, if this deal goes down, it could mean cheaper consoles, more competition in the PC graphics card market, and more games for the PC, even if they are mostly console ports at first.
In other news, Microsoft has announced price cuts for the Xbox 360 in the US market. Effective tomorrow (Sept 5), an Xbox Arcade bundle will set you back $199 USD (cheaper than the Nintendo Wii), the standard package with hard drive, headset etc. will cost $299, and the Elite bundle can be had for $399.
Information from google news.
Published: 4th September 2008 @ 1.11am
Author: TweakTown Staff.
NORBERTO
i heard about the xbox 720, is it coming out? or is it just stuff that people make up. i was reading one of the answers below and i read a guy saying that the xbox 720 is coming out.
is it true?
sorry i was answering ans asking so many questions on the playstation forum that i guess i forgot to check which forum i put it in…sorry
DOMENIC
i heard from my dad that the new xbox 720 will be coming out in feb 17 2010 my dad werks for ms he helps create game systems so…
BERNARD
If you think it will come out when do u think it will come out?
MILTON
if so please tell me i would love to buy one of these
ILENE
The next generation system will be released between 2011-2012. What are you guys going to buy and what do you think will be better?
JEANIE
