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Author:  pcernie [ Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:56 pm ]
Post subject:  On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
Xbox 720: XBW uses penultimate issue to 'tell you everything we know'

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Xbox World has used its penultimate issue to publish an 8-page feature containing "everything we know" about Microsoft's next-gen console plans.

The mag has good form when it comes to next-gen Xbox leaks, having revealed in January Microsoft's plans for augmented reality, directional sound, and a four-player, finger-tracking Kinect, all of which were later confirmed in the now infamous leaked planning document in June.

Editor in chief Dan Dawkins told CVG: "Xbox World has been at the cutting edge of Durango coverage for over 12 months. Unless something really dramatic changes, everything we reveal in our penultimate issue will be revealed long before E3 in June."

According to the mag's final 'exposé', the next-gen Xbox - which it speculates is likely to be called simply "Xbox" - will introduce Kinect 2.0, use Blu-ray discs and feature directional audio, a TV output AND input, 'innovative controller' and - at a later stage of the console's life - AR glasses.

Current codename 'Durango' dev kits boast a CPU with "four hardware cores, each divided into four logical cores" and an impressive 8GB of RAM, XBW reports.

Xbox World has used the Microsoft leaks and industry sources to come up with a 3D mock-up of what it expects the next-gen Xbox to look like.

"We built ours with the same glossy face and patented VapourMG magnesium alloy Microsoft uses for its Surface tablet, and modelled the silver band after its new 'Wedge' touch keyboard and flexible Arc Touch mouse," it writes. "The future will be black, sharp and curved."

To read the full 8-page feature, buy the latest issue of Xbox World online or on Apple Newsstand here (UK) or here (US).

PSM3 features an equally large feature on PlayStation 4 and you can buy that on iOS here (UK) or here (US).


http://www.computerandvideogames.com/37 ... g-we-know/

Just FYI...
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
Looks okay and using Blu Ray will mean huge games or realistic scenery.
Author:  pcernie [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
Amnesia10 wrote:
Looks okay and using Blu Ray will mean huge games or realistic scenery.


It would mean not having to swap discs and less scratching going on at least :oops:
Author:  Linux_User [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:49 am ]
Post subject:  Re: On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
Similar feature in PSM3 regarding the PS4. PSM3 is also getting the axe, with the final issue going on sale 12 December.

This means I have to switch to Official PlayStation Magazine or cancel my subscription. I hope that Future don't axe my favourite publication - Linux Format.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:02 am ]
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Linux_User wrote:
Similar feature in PSM3 regarding the PS4. PSM3 is also getting the axe, with the final issue going on sale 12 December.

This means I have to switch to Official PlayStation Magazine or cancel my subscription. I hope that Future don't axe my favourite publication - Linux Format.

Usually during recessions many magazines fold. Usually the more esoteric ones with low subscription numbers.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
Linux_User wrote:
Similar feature in PSM3 regarding the PS4. PSM3 is also getting the axe, with the final issue going on sale 12 December.

PSM3 seem to have done a fair bit on the PS4 in the issue that came out a couple of days ago - mostly the rumours that have been on the internet for weeks, which is a perfect illustration of the mag's plight I suppose - and from Dan Dawkin's tweets it seems their final issue will be much more a 'thank you and goodbye' retrospective.

Linux_User wrote:
This means I have to switch to Official PlayStation Magazine or cancel my subscription.

I already am a subber to both PSM3 and OPM (digitally, which is actually rather cheap - like 20 quid a year or something). Wonder if I'll get a refund or they'll just extend my OPM sub...

Linux_User wrote:
I hope that Future don't axe my favourite publication - Linux Format.

I suspect what they will be looking at is not absolute subscriber numbers but the change in subscriber numbers - it's likely that OXM and PSM3 have both seen a steady decline in subscribers as well as advertising income and there's come a point where the publishers have assumed the decline isn't going to flatten out at a point where the mag is profitable. In the case of Linux Format you'd assume it's subscriber base is relatively stable, so as long as it's viable today it should still be viable in at least the medium term. Being honest, the future of the printed periodical - be they newspapers or magazines - probably isn't great in the long run, maybe beyond the next 5 years. When you'll be able to buy a tablet that can have all your reading material in full colour with a 4G network connection to download content at a relatively cheap rate for £99 to buy - and, let's be honest here, you will have that sooner rather than later - paper mags really start to look like the kind of niche vinyl records are today.
Author:  pcernie [ Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: On your way out? Spill the Xbox 720 details
I quite liked PSM3, but as Jon says, I'd little reason to buy it... I've got a sub to OPM since I got a PSN voucher out of it :lol:

Bring on the electronic paper that wirelessly connects to your computer/access point of choice...
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