“XBOX Durango Development Kit” Sells For $20,000

Kotaku - The nondescript black PC tower that its seller claims is a Durango (ie, the next Xbox console) development kit has now been sold. The winning bid? Oh, a trifling $20,100.

For that price, the buyer has either got themselves an unexpectedly early look at the future of the Xbox brand or the world's most expensive office computer.

[-Mezzo-]

Hope the buyer releases some details about it.

And it would suck if he just paid 20K for a Gaming Rig.

[HebrewHammer]

I'm amazed Microsoft has yet to intervene either.

[tehpees3]

They'll probably make sure the package gets "lost" in the post.

[tachy0n]

who knows, maybe microsoft themselves bought it. O.o

[dark-hollow]

what if one of microsoft employees is buying this kit so nobody can leak anything?

[Shadonic]

They already have Marcus and master chief on the job tracking the package it'll never reach the buyer

[EeJLP-]

http://www.thelas.info/wp-c...

"This listing was ended by the seller because the item was sold."

It didn't sell for $20,100. The auction was ended early. Either it didn't sell at all because it doesn't exist, he got a nice message from Microsoft's lawyers, or someone contacted him and said, hey, end it now and I'll give you $50k. Either way, it didn't sell for $20,100. It still had like 5 days left I think.

[SixZeroFour]

would be worse if he got an empty pc case

on a side note...why is it that when you look at the bid history, you see the same person bidding himself up with multiple ppl doing the same...just screams BS for some reason

[NexGen]

That's the "autobid to a certain limit" option. It looks like you're just overbidding yourself, but that's your autobid kicking in. It doesn't show the person your autobid beat.

[SixZeroFour]

ah ic...i dont use ebay, so i never knew how that worked

[rbailey]

Still surprised this kit sold for that much and I wonder what Microsoft would do in the future to try and prevent these things from happening. Still from the image alone though, you already know the next console won't look like that.

[-Mezzo-]

Dev Kit's have always looked similar to that, of-course the final Next-Gen console won't look like that.

[OneAboveAll]

No they haven't. The Xbox 360 dev-kit looks just like the original Xbox 360. The only difference is that it has a massive Hard Drive on it. As you can see here- http://www.moddedgame.com/m...

[Blankman85]

Lol that hard drive is disgusting, for lack of a better word.

[Ben_Grimm]

I remember the original xbox dev kits, they looked like the xbox but they were transparent green. Really ugly.

Have you seen the Wii dev kits? Now those look nothing like the Wii.

[Rhythmattic]

The Original Alpha Xbox 360 Dev Kits where a Apple Mac G5 PPC running a NT kernel... It Obviously looked nothing like a 360 SKU

Interestingly , the 360 ended being a copy of a Dell PC form factor....

[Shadonic]

Probably still working on designs.

[smashcrashbash]

Yeah right. As if Microsoft would ever let anyone leak and take their development kit before the system is even released without intervening. I call BS. Who ever brought that is probably will be on his knees crying once he finds out he was swindled

[azshorty2003]

I hope the buyer enjoys his $20k Alienware computer.....which is actually a pretty fair price for those PoS.

[showtimefolks]

that's pretty cheap right? My understanding was these devs kits cost millions of dollars. I hope both MS and Sony develop a developer friendly console yet still move the tech forward

[Jazz4108]

I dont think you have to worry about microsoft. They use straight up pc archetecture. Its sony that comes up with this emotion engine and cell crap that most developers that are not on sonys payroll have spoke out against.

[showtimefolks]

you can look at Vita and see that sony has learned that making development harder isn't good for business. so i am expecting a very user friendly console that's still gonna have high end tech hopefully

and why the disagrees for me asking a questions? this shit on N4G with stealth trolling has to stop

n4g heaven for fanboys

[smashcrashbash]

Ummmm....yeah how exactly did Sony get into this conversation? Just because you have a chip on your shoulder about Sony for what ever reason doesn't mean you can fly off topic for any reason.

[IronFistChinMi]

You got disagrees because dev kits don't cost millions. The 360 dev kit was around $20,000 I believe.

[ZoyosJD]

I didn't disagree, but the reasoning would be the same. You implied something that was factually incorrect. You sure aren't going to get agrees for that.

They don't cost millions. For example, the PS3 and 360 dev kits at launch costs were approximately $20,000 and $18,000 and was priced at $2,000 and $1,600 back in 2009 respectively.

[Qrphe]

No dude, this doesn't look legit; it's fake.

[WitWolfy]

If this is the alleged dev kit, the why not show the dashboard or features it has? To see that its not just a JTAG rip off?

Stupidity is INDEED bliss!

[Shadonic]

Maybe ms hasent idk designed it yet never know the processes they go through for developing a new console I mean they have the specs and the main things needed for say developing a game and I dought developers would need a dashboard like he current 360 you know me likes to change things

[WitWolfy]

Nah doesnt add up, every piece of hardware has software even if its just an alpha version.

[Dlacy13g]

Hard to say how real that kit is but I have to think MS was quietly all over this behind the scenes.

[NeoTribe]

I'm sure if microsoft felt threatened by it they would purchase it themselves. Nobodys outbidding microsoft lol.

[taquito]

lol, an $800 pc is WAY more powerful than the "durango", whoever bought it got HOSED!