Microsoft Job Posting Hints at New Xbox Within 18 Months
Looks like Microsoft is adding to its marketing department ahead of an important year and a half.
Microsoft has kept pretty quiet about its Xbox 720 plans. And by that we mean the company has so far refused to acknowledge the console's existence. In fact, the company has, in the past, pointed to the two-year-old Kinect when asked about the life-cycle of the Xbox 360. Still, a lack of confirmation from Microsoft hasn't stopped the gaming industry from talking about it and a recent job posting from Microsoft likely won't help, either.
VideoGamer points to a job posting that appeared on Microsoft's Careers website overnight and seems to suggest the new Xbox is launching in 2013. Seeking a Director of Marketing and Communications, the posting starts by detailing Microsoft's plans to release "new versions of all of [its] most significant products including Windows (Client, Server, Phone and Azure), Office and Xbox, along with completely new offerings like Microsoft Surface" over the next 18 months. Microsoft added that this 'wave of product launches' will define the course of the company "for years to come."
Microsoft has already played off one mention of 'the new Xbox' as a reference to the company's plans to release new Xbox software later this year. However, this mention seems a little more cut and dry, and therefore harder to deny. Indeed, Redmond told the Verge that it's "continually thinking about the future of the platform and when we have something to share, we will."
The latest rumors have Microsoft announcing the Xbox 720 at E3 2013, with release pegged for late 2013 or early 2014.
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Not in the slightest. Nearly every new product has issues. Difference with PCs is that is happens part by parts. One times it the new GPU with driver issues, next it's the NEW CPU with heating issues, next it's the new SSD with firmware issues. It doesn't matter what you purchase, you're almost always going to have issues with new products right out the door. Mind you I said ALMOST always.
But I can deal with the issues. Take it in strides.
That's what I'm saying. It isn't really worth the money despite what people think. Just don't feel like spending extra money on something that isn't worth it. Console fanboys are gonna flip when they see it ridiculously over priced. I wonder what the PS3 will do if they don't get a new console soon though? I mean, if this is true, the PS3 will be a generation behind and will have difficulty playing newer games. Maybe they will be released around the same time?
Why not 5ghz on an i7 ivy?
"compensation = depends on how many consoles brick"
No one cares about your PC specs, despite you posting them in every thread you get a chance to. But hey, grats on spending a stupid amount of money to play console ports on LOL!
I am in no means a console fanboy, but Christ its extremely unfair to compare a cheap 250$ 2006 console to a PC monster that most likely costed you $2500.
and guess what i can pack it up and take to my friends house and play... let me know how your PC
manages that..