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This thing is gonna be powerful if these are actual specs! Can't wait!

I imagine it won't have 8GB RAM, probably 4GB

I have no clue if this rumor is real or not...but the amount of rumor leaks these days from numerous different sources all seem to point toward two very common points:

1) 8GB of RAM
2) 8 Core CPU

I think we can fairly safely assume those two tid bits are reality.

The GPU seems to be all over the place and seems to change with each leaked rumor so I am guessing that element was possibly late in the game for finalization.

I think the thing I am most curious about is what do they do to the controller if anything? Will it have some small touch pad window on it? Is it untouched and just the same controller as one rumor suggested? I am guessing they will make some minor change to make consumers have to buy new controllers but I suppose you never know.

Edit: Point taken by @mrbojingles I think this 8GB of RAM while constantly coming up has also been constantly discussed as what is in dev kits. typically dev kits have twice the RAM as the console so this makes me think 4GB is more realistic.

8GB of ram won't seem like a lot 6 years from now when this thing will still need to be pumping out games.

I can see a huge 500GB HD though if they are trying to make this the end all be all entertainment console.

People will be storing all their movies and music on it as well and I'm guessing there will be ways to then listen to your stored music wirelessely on a different device in a different part of the room.

If this is true..this will be expensive and the hate gonna be too much as i will expect to see

This year is gonna rock!!

oh.

Ineresting

if we observe the specs closely there are lots of eights.
(1) Eight-core CPU; (2) HD 8800 series GPU; (3) Windows 8; and (4) 8 GB memory.

8 is the same as the infinity symbol, but in an upright position.

conicidence? perhaps, but it would be a clever marketing gimmik to play with the number 8 and the infinity symbol

The specs seem too good to be true honestly. We'll see but all these rumors just tell me the announcement is getting closer and closer. I'm eager to see what MS has this time around.

Christ, another article about the next gen consoles which shows all the specs followed by a question mark. Pointless.

As long as MS dont put a small hard drive in the next console forcing us to buy another console version a few years later like they did with the 20gb pro then the elite then the 250gb slim. That was a very crafty plan they pulled off with the current generation console and nobody even noticed

People actually believe this?

$299 with a 2 year contract

Next gen consoles should have SSD. It would be amazing.

8 core CPU?

Hahahahahahhahhhahahahahahha

No

w8 in it is going to be a tough sale

I don't care if it plays games on max, If people with iPads and android tablets, psn, and even the WiiU don't have to pay to play online, neither should I if I decide to buy a new xbox. I don't care what fanboys say about their beloved machine. XBL is not worth it, I don't care if I can find cards for $30 bucks every year. It's not so much the cost as much as it's the principal of it all.

In the leaked 720 documents I thought I read that they want it to look like any other electronic device under your tv so it's going to look like a DVD player.

Hahaha much much $$$$

this thing would be rediculously expensive if these specs are true. Not to mention the inclusion of Kinect out of the box. It would be the price of a launch ps3. No way in hell that would sell in this economy. It would be a beast certainly, but the number of devs who could afford to take advantage of that power are slim. And even with a subscription they would be cutting their market because not everybody is gung ho about adding another bill to the dining room table.

Whatever the case I want one or maybe two ,decision,decisions.

If those are the actual specs, definitely a day 1 purchase.

Epic influenced Microsoft, no doubt.

everything sounds great EXCEPT the mobile gpu, they are ALL weak

i had an asus g74 for a bit (560m gpu), bought it used for a great price, system restored it, put a bunch of games on it, totally excited, starcraft 2, not even medium settings and the things chugging at 1080p, check out bf3....lol.....no freaking way......not even ultra settings, had to turn res down to 900p, turn aa off

point is, thats a $1400 laptop with an i-7 and a 3gb 560m gpu, (i got it for $700, sold it for $900 :), with high end parts, the parts they put in consoles is cheap, bottom of the barrel parts, that gpu concerns me......

this puts the consoles realitive power in line with a 2 year old laptop, not cool, yes MUCH better than the 8 year old 360, but still......

What the hell would this thing cost? An arm and a leg?

For the people who are claiming "it seems way too expensive", wasn't the GPU in the X360 priced at $400 the year before it launched?

Genuinely curious here, as I'm technically inept. Another thing, as the years go by, the price of parts will drop, thus the loss on their product will drop.

errrr ya...

Cant believe this rumor. Price tag alone on a system like that would be far to high.

So if this is true then the spec for consumer would be half of that. Because what I think that person describing was a developer version. That isn't far-fetched.

We will wait and see if this is true, only time can tell.

It will also have 8GB SSD and 800GB HDD, you see a pattern with this article, all these 8s LOL

I'm saying its gonna be something like: AMD A8, 4GB RAM, and HD 7000 series GPU oh and basic Windows 8

I don't think people understand how much cheaper AMD's components are compared to Intels... there is a reason everyone is using AMD now and no one is going to use Intel. The 8 core processer is 200 bones at retail and the graphics card is probably about the same... now you strip all the BS off the price and you manufacture it yourself and you're looking at fraction of the retail cost for the comparable PC component. It wouldn't surprise me is Microsoft goes right with an APU... some variation of the A-10 that's already at 45nm and has low power version and a higher powered version. That would allow them to put out the "Xbox TV" version with maybe something more along the lines of an A-6 that still packs enough power for Xbox Live Arcade titles, but wont play most games. It's purely just guess work on my part of course.

8core is possible (counting virtual cores)8000M,weak, meant for notebooks. Will struggle to do 1920 x 1080 on high settings. Unlikely they will use 8800M (yields issue).possibly something in between. memory improvements will help. Still overall better than the 360. but not by a lot.

Hardware geek calls bull

if is true..we find the next gen king or queen ahaha

This bullshit website is not reporting the story correctly. This spec is of the developer kits, the actual console itself always tend to have half the ram of the dev kit, so expect 4GB ram in the consumer product if true. Hard drive size would be lowered as well.

1GB system memory 1GB video memory. Mark my words.

Anyone who thinks any next gen console will have 8gb is delusional or simply does not have a clue...

inb4yeabutcanitruncrapsis3?

I hope it has a SSD drive.

SD cards can get pricey depending on what class you get. $5 is for a very low end card which would limit the read/write speeds of the console. I am also interested in knowing what kind of discs the new box will use. Going Blu-ray will somewhat bridge a gap between the consoles but if Blu discs do drive up costs then maybe introducing a quad layer dvd disc will be more plausible. Also, I doubt using a Win8 Kernel will make more simultaneous PC version releases. How unfortunate. Cause some people, like myself, that have a gaming PC still purchase the console version because I hate to wait.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Helix will be expensive but it's still a day one for me.

Oh, my days...
So Nadella meets with the US president multiple times to ensure AI regulations are minimal if any at all, donates to the inauguration and ballroom, and his boy not only won't regulate AI as farmers lose land and billionaires/corporations buy up farmland to build data centers...but because he's insane and compromised, he starts a war on behalf of a rogue colonial zionist state and [further] destabilizes the Middle East, restricting component access and helium supply.

Now the head of Xbox is saying the hardware pricing "could impact" next generation hardware pricing? Asha,...your boss at a minimum played a direct role in this. What are we even talking about?

Yea because a $3 trillion company can’t absorb the majority of the cost to keep the product lower for consumers.

Expensive… oh no, here comes another flop.

Could? Strange how prices rise for virtually everything we buy, yet when things settle down, prices don't come down. This has been happening in the UK probably before I was born. With that, how much is a next gen console going to cost? Look at the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which has been a flop for Sony. On that note, we don't need the next consoles for another 5 years.

I guarantee if people just stopped buying this kinda stuff all together. This would all be sorted within 2 weeks and everything would be back to normal.

We seen the exact same thing through the COVID period. Companies just jumped on the bandwagon realising that they can get away with charging far more under false pretences and fear mongering.

Consumers now have this fear of "you know what, I only live once. I'm going to spend all this money I earned through my hard work" Or "I only live once I'm going to take a loan out and enjoy my time here".

Silicone Valley spends literally billions of dollars researching how much they can push society to the limits to increase spending. You can research it yourself. There's published written documentation about it. Have a look for yourself into their group research into subscription programs to see how evil they are and why it's such a giant focus of current civilization. Its the very essence of corporate capitalism.

Just delay all new consoles. I could easily go another 5 years with my base PS5.

could? it's already affecting current gen pricing.

It is greed. Apple are selling at the same price, while Microsoft Surface increases 500$ per unit. Karma will tell.