Xbox 720 Durango Dev Kit Appears Online for Sale
A nice Xbox 720 leak to get your week off to the right start.
Nintendo has already talked a lot about the Wii U. Conversely, both Microsoft and Sony are keeping pretty quiet about their next generation consoles. As far as Microsoft is concerned, we do have some details, such as the fact that it's codenamed 'Durango,' and that it might ditch the optical drive, but we're holding out for some good old fashioned leaks to help us out with the rest of the juicy details.
This past weekend, our hopes were raised high, as one person on the web claimed to be selling an Xbox 720 Durango devkit. The devkit in question cropped up on a game dev forum (AssemblerGames) with a price tag of $10,000. Eurogamer's Digital Foundry reached out to the source and then followed up with multiple developers working on next-gen projects. According to what Digital Foundry heard back, this really is a Durango devkit we're looking at. Of course, it's worth noting that the Xbox 720 probably won't look anything like this -- this is just the cobbled-together hardware sent out to developers so they can get the ball rolling. Still, it could give us some idea of what to expect, specswise, from the new Xbox.
The person responsible for the leaked images goes by the name of DaE and has since been banned from the AssemblerGames forums after it emerged his sale posting was a prank played on the owner of the boards. However, the fact remains that the image he used for that posting were apparently legitimate, and Digital Foundry says that after speaking to him, that he has had access to the devkit.
So, the pics are legit, but what else do we know? Well, Digital Foundry says DaE believes the devkits (dispatched in February) feature an Intel CPU, an Nvidia graphics card (he didn't specify beyond that), more than 8GB of memory, and that it's 64-bit in nature. DaE says Microsoft is actually aiming for an eight-core CPU, but this information has not been verified.
For more pictures and the full story, hit up Eurogamer's Digital Foundry.
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Troll so hard...
Go home kid. Nobody here is going to fall into your trap.
Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?
Troll so hard...
Hopefully they have a new Call of Duty as a launch title for this like they did for the 360. Or maybe Halo?
You almost had me. But then I knew for sure you were trolling when you said "modern GFX card".
In 2 years those'll become outdated again.
Not really. Games are REALLY hard to make parallel, though when coding in Assembly, its easier to do, so for a console, more cores will probably help more then it would on a PC.
Thats why current consoles can still kinda keep up with midrange PC's: They are coded at a MUCH lower level, so you get better performance out of lower-tier hardware.
How is it trolling? Current XBOX has 512MB of shared memory, a triple core CPU, and an X1900 series graphics card, and games still look great on it. Heck, the PS3 has a weaker graphics card, and the Uncharted and God of War series are FAR better looking than anything on PC.
This is a substantial hardware upgrade. The games already look great now; I can't even imagine what the next Uncharted will look like!
Lolwut? Ill go side by side with a PS3 anyday.
Then you don't have a real PC. Real men that $$$ to afford a real PC
Microsoft will be bringing internet explorer to the table for the XBOX soon. But as far as installing Windows that would most likely void warranty and give you a nice Live ban.
Go home kid. Nobody here is going to fall into your trap.
Nice try, troll, but my Mac Pro was way more expensive than your toy computer and is far more advanced. Professionals like me use computers for REAL work and leave games to consoles where they belong.
I'd love to see your "real PC" hang with an 8-core Xeon in things that matter in the real world, like doing grown up work, LOL. Hint: your overpriced graphics card doesn't mean JACK!
AX,BX,CX,DX, EX, EAX
All the cores use the same, extremely small memory registers. Don't be fooled. any performance increase you see will be for the GPU, not the CPU. Are you willing to pay 500ish dollars for a GPU for your PC? Then why would your TV? Only to have it out of date by the time you purhcase it, with NO HOPES OF UPGRADING.
IMO Console's are dying. It's the same repeated trash for way too much money that hinders developers and hinders advances. OUYA, is the way to go. Low costs, easy to upgarde (just buy a new one) and open-source.