(New)Xbox: Developments, Developments, Developments, Developments! (May 21 event)

Goose!

From Eurogamer.net:

Microsoft will reveal its next-generation Xbox at an event on 21st May, multiple reports have suggested.

The console will launch in "early November", seasoned Microsoft analyst Paul Thurrot has revealed. These details have been independently backed up by The Verge.

Named just "Xbox", Microsoft's machine will be "expensive" and cost around $500 (roughly £326, although likely higher in the UK). A lower price $300 (£195) model will also be available with some form of subscription.
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Veteran Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrot in action.

Regarding the console's rumoured "always-online" component, Thurrot reiterated what we knew already - that previous Microsoft design documents have mentioned the feature.

"Looking at some of the stuff I got a long time ago, it actually says 'must be internet-connected to use' in the notes," Thurrot claimed. "And that's all I have, but it does say that."

Recently-leaked internal documentation dated to last year referenced the console's "always on, always connected" design.

Microsoft was coy in its apology for comments made by senior employee Adam Orth last week that appeared to support an "always on" console. The company's statement was careful to apologise for Orth's poorly chosen words while steering clear of addressing the subject in general.

Thurrot's report also mentioned two other unannounced Xbox-branded machines. One, code-named "Yumo", was to be an Xbox device purely for entertainment apps, rather than games. The product has seemingly been canned to avoid confusing consumers.

The other machine is a new budget-priced Xbox 360 model, code-named "Stingray". Due for release later this year, the device will cost just $99 (£65). Thurrot suggested this may mean Microsoft's new Xbox would not play Xbox 360 games.

Microsoft told Eurogamer it "does not comment on rumour or speculation".

Xbox the Third is coming. Microsoft is the lagging tail this time around after being the first one out of the starting blocks with the 360. So many questions. Will it be always on? Will signing up for Live lower the price of the console? Will there be a physical controller or will the system just read your thoughts? All this and more could potentially be answered or not on May 21st.

YaYa

they're really fucking the dog on this

Maximum

YaYa wrote: »

they're really fucking the dog on this

Maybe.

I'll wait until the official press thingy in May to make any serious judgment though.

Melding

cool, good to know I'm buying a PS4.

Franko

but I heard this console helps your internet always be online
or maybe I misunderstood that

Nikolai

I'm most likely gonna spend the money I would on a new xbox on putting together a new computer

Melding

if the new xbox beams internet into my house during the multiple times in a month i am without internet I will buy one.

PaperLuigi44

Dang it I was planning to make this thread, if only because I'd been sitting on the thread title 'Durango Unchained' for a while.

YaYa

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

Dang it I was planning to make this thread, if only because I'd been sitting on the thread title 'Durango Unchained' for a while.

@Goose!

you must change the thread title immediately

Etchwarts

I think you should still keep the "developments, developments, developments, developments!" though

Best of both

Beef Avenger

what i want to know about the new xbox is whether its controller will replace my 360 controller for my PC

Bogey

This is already being discussed in the Giant Bomb / Games / Industry thread. Until this is all more than just rumors and speculation, please go there.