Rumored Technical Details For Next Xbox Rounded Up

Thanks to the San Jose Mercury News for its article summing up many of the rumored technical details for Microsoft's next Xbox console. The author argues: "The details suggest Microsoft is far more concerned about keeping the cost of its Xbox Next console low than it is with including dazzling technological features or driving its rivals out of the business", and goes on to discuss the possible chipset ("Three IBM-designed 64-bit microprocessors... [as] used in Apple Computer's high-end G5 PowerMac machines"), and alleged hard disc removal for Xbox's sequel ("[Microsoft] seems to have decided that saving the $50 the hard drive costs outweighs its benefits.") The piece ends with the claim that "Microsoft has begun developing game prototypes, and it is using [Apple] G5 systems to do so."

"One-upmanship" taken to extreme new levels

[albalbo]

"The machine also will have about 256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory. But Microsoft will upgrade that to 512 gigabytes if Sony puts in more."

That's a winning tactic.

Grain of Salt...

[malakai]

Not only is it speculation, whoever wrote it doesn't even have enough of a clue to ignore wildy inaccurate data points....

The machine also will have about 256 megabytes of dynamic random access memory. But Microsoft will upgrade that to

512 gigabytes if Sony puts in more. The previous Xbox had 64 megabytes.

emphasis mine

<sarcasm>Atleast with 64bit processors the virtual address space can access all the memmory</sarcasm>

Re:"One-upmanship" taken to extreme new levels

[PyroMosh]

Well that's why it won't need a hard drive. ( :