DEVELOP SOURCE: NEW XBOX CONSOLE ON DESKS AT EA

Update: But a apart source claims an E3 exhibit for a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new complement is ‘highly unlikely’

[Update 2: EA has left behind upon a no-comment position as well as right divided claims a essay published subsequent is '100 per cent untrue'. Develop's source insists a story is accurate.] The inheritor to a Xbox 360 console is upon desks during an unnamed Electronic Arts studio, Develop understands. The brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new hardware, sent to EA final month, is a really early set up with no surrounding – it is in actuality being stored inside a Personal Computer shell. EA developers have been removing to grips with a tech to emanate first-generation software, Develop has been told. "Quite mostly when brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new consoles come around they're finished in to a Personal Computer shell, though essentially what's inside is an wholly brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new console," a senior, trusted, well-placed source said. Microsoft has declined to comment. EA has declined to comment. Develop's source is not in use during possibly company. The source believed, though did not have sure information, which a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new Xbox would launch by a finish of 2012. The particular expects an proclamation will be made, during slightest in a little form, during E3. 

SHOW TIME

In March, brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new interpretation referred to Microsoft was during a early stages in office building a inheritor to a Xbox 360. The height owners had advertised brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new pursuit vacancies such as Graphics Hardware Architect as well as Performance Engineer for a Xbox Console Architecture Group. Microsoft's brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new hires will be "responsible for defining as well as delivering subsequent era console architectures from source by implementation," a association said. The denunciation of a pursuit vacancies referred to a exhibit for a console is years away, though Develop's source says a startle exhibit could be weeks away. "Why let Nintendo take a rumble in Jun [At E3]? It doesn't wish to remove momentum. That's because we consider Microsoft is rushing to have an proclamation during E3." It leads to guess which pass next-gen projects have been underway during Microsoft's own inner studios. Some plan names Develop has seen would indicate a shift of guard.

NEXT GENERATION

Specifications for a device have been not available, for now. Develop understands which a hardware will underline extended await for Kinect with only a integrate of alterations. Over 52 million Xbox consoles have been sole given a system's launch in May 2005. Microsoft's innovative suit controller, Kinect, launched Nov final year as well as has buoyed a console's appeal. Ten million Kinect units were sole worldwide as of Mar this year. "Kinect will keep a 360 starting for a integrate of years, though Microsoft knows which if it slows down right divided it will face trouble," a source added.

Dig 10 May, 2011

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