Xbox 720 has been fully detailed to some third-parties, VG247 has learned, and has been slotted in for a Christmas 2013 released. And yes: of course it’ll have a Blu-ray drive.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
The full Skewedcast crew back for this episode and Gareth, Justin, Michael, and JoeyZ at Skewed and Reviewed break down the latest entertainment news qith a focus at 40:00 on the Microsoft Studio Closures and how it impacts the game community and what can be done to help offset this negative trend.
Xbox has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.
ohhh man, the press really did not like those last closures, their having a field day bashing xbox,
anyway, ive got to nip off to the shops now, i've run out of microwave popcorn.
The only point to xbox is and always has been to take market share and money from PlayStation and Nintendo, but mostly PlayStation. It's been the goal since sweaty Steve Balmer said it himself.
I mean the motto "xbox, the most optional console ever made" was peaked years ago, people are just now taking a step back from deepthroating Phil to see what we've all been seeing for a long time now.
I’ve still got friends that main on XB. For their sake, I hope it sticks around. They’ve put everything into that ecosystem. It’s all or nothing.
I wonder if we’ll ever get back the level of competition seen during the 360/PS3 era?
If this is real.. Having to be connected to the internet at all times will make for some interesting conversation on this site. The rumored specs with the AMD 7000 series is amazing news as well if true. With specs like the ones mentioned, the XBOX 720 would surpass my 6850 sporting Cyberpower PC. Which can already max out most games, so this is great news for people planning on purchasing the XBOX 720.. If these rumors are true.
The inclusion of bluray is nice as well. Hopefully that will eliminate disc swapping for larger games.
I guess its safe to say that XBOX fans should start saving the loose change now. This has a fair chance at being an expensive machine.
Anyway I hope this system is made as strong and as complete as possible so I can prepare for the future of HALO. And for the love of god hopefully a Halowars 2. May we all bow our heads and pray for the return of these monsterous games. With specs like mentioned above, this machine will also do wonders for the #1 pro racing sim franchise in the world. The Forza franchise.
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"Always on" is a feature I wouldn't endorse.
@Perjoss
Nintendo has an, "always on" feature for the Wii, though it isn't "mandatory" (Its called "Wiiconnect 24" - which allows the player to receive updates, friends message, etc. <just as long as the yellow light in on>).
Maybe it'll workout for Microsoft, so here's hoping for the best.
Hope this is true.
Sounds accurate. I hope Microsoft adopts Blu-ray because it will be needed for next-gen systems. The PS3 has already benefited from it, as have the customers.
Who'd have thought we had a 3D Blu-ray player back in 2006?
Anyway, both system specs sound very promising and I hope to god they'll unveil them at this year's E3 for a 2013 launch.