XMNR: Technology and Windows blogger Paul Thurrott caused a stir over the past weekend with a series of comments on a What the Tech podcast about the next Xbox (code-named Durango aka Xbox 720). He responded to those comments in a follow-up podcast released Wednesday where he said that nobody knows what Microsoft is going to announce so why speculate.
Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"
Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.
would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.
Devstream 178 was filled with so many cool announcements for the game's community, and were able to ask a lot of questions about Warframe: 1999 and more!
From The Growing Stones and Valkyrie Interactive comes The Mildew Children on Xbox and PC. Ready for the fairy tales and horror it brings?
Why speculate?
It's fun to speculate, obviously it can go too far but discussing potential events in gaming is what we do as a community of gamers and gaming media. It's our hobby and our passion, we have every right to discuss it in full and make predictions based on evidence and rumor.
If MS don't want us to speculate then they should come out and dismiss some of the terrible rumors but they won't because, most likely, they're probably true and they haven't thought of a way to spin it yet.
Mainly because it sounds exactly like something Microsoft would do. They never actually straight up denied it either did they?
That only leaves more people to speculate, I mean would it have killed them to have simply said no, it won't be?
MSFT isn't that dumb but as a Sony supporter I sure love seeing them going through the media circus right now. =)
I have a theory about all this 'alway on' rumors & speculations.
If the new Xbox is rumored to have Windows 8 integrated into its OS & that Blu Ray may not be used but DVD still it could be that every game will be like those of PC. Having to be always online to register each game installed onto its hard drive. So this constant internet connection to be able to play games has been used on PC for years, this may be the road that the next Xbox may take. Who knows.
It's a damn shame if even 70% of the current Next Xbox rumours become reality.
The other 30% (you may be wondering) is all positive in that Microsoft will build a capable machine with Blu Ray functionality. On which Halo 5 will look astonishing. I am still wowed by Halo 4.
At this point in time I'm pretty certain I'll be getting a PS4, but! ....E3 will make my decision final.
Next Box is still on my radar, even though I object to Xbox Live Gold subs, if they make a subscription on Next Box as value driven as PS+ I might just 'Jump In'.