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Taken from WinInfo ShortTakes for Feb 9th...
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/41706/windowspaulthurrott_41706.html
What to Expect in Xbox Next
It might still be over a year away, but details about Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console ("Xbox Next" inRedmond parlance) are starting to leak. According to reports, Xbox Next will feature three 64-bit IBM microprocessors, a next-generation ATI graphics chip and Longhorn-based graphics libraries, 256 to 512 MB of RAM, and a DVD or Blu-Ray drive, depending on how things go. The most important feature of Xbox Next, of course, is its delivery schedule: For Microsoft to be successful with this release, it must ship the console before Sony launches its eagerly awaited PlayStation 3, now expected in 2006. Also, the company is reportedly wrestling with how it might make Xbox Next compatible with the first generation of Xbox titles, given the changes to the underlying platform. Heads-up, guys: If this thing doesn't run first generation Xbox games, just pack it up and go home.
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Sounds like a whopper of a system...It just better be backward compatable...
http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/41706/windowspaulthurrott_41706.html
What to Expect in Xbox Next
It might still be over a year away, but details about Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console ("Xbox Next" inRedmond parlance) are starting to leak. According to reports, Xbox Next will feature three 64-bit IBM microprocessors, a next-generation ATI graphics chip and Longhorn-based graphics libraries, 256 to 512 MB of RAM, and a DVD or Blu-Ray drive, depending on how things go. The most important feature of Xbox Next, of course, is its delivery schedule: For Microsoft to be successful with this release, it must ship the console before Sony launches its eagerly awaited PlayStation 3, now expected in 2006. Also, the company is reportedly wrestling with how it might make Xbox Next compatible with the first generation of Xbox titles, given the changes to the underlying platform. Heads-up, guys: If this thing doesn't run first generation Xbox games, just pack it up and go home.
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Sounds like a whopper of a system...It just better be backward compatable...