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Rumors about Xbox 720 not ready to die

June 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Rumors about Microsoft’s potential Xbox 720 have long been swirling around the Web, though the Redmond-based software giant hasn’t made any concrete announcement about the next version of its popular Xbox 360 game console. The bevy of rumors suggest that the Xbox 720 come equipped with a revision of AMD's 7000 series graphics chips based on its 28nm Graphics Core Next Southern Islands technology. VG274 recently quoted anonymous sources, claiming that the Xbox 720 console’s graphics … [Read more...]

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16-CORE PROCESSOR WITH XBOX 720

April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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On 28th February, 2012, Microsoft had hosted a conference in London where they had given out an official statement about the Xbox 720 following which developers from all across the world started receiving kits from the company in March, 2012. It is being said that the primary reason for calling the conference was that Microsoft wanted a briefing session for its European representatives. There were a few more conferences held across the world and one of them was for the American … [Read more...]

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Forget E3 2012, Xbox 720 to debut in 2013

March 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
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It was being expected that Microsoft will showcase its new console Xbox 720 at the E3 this year. But now it seems the Xbox lovers will have to wait for another year before getting to play on the new console. The company wants to still sell the Xbox 360 for another year before it introduces another console.   The Xbox 360 saw a successful year of sales in 2011. Microsoft’s Xbox outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii in the year 2011. It saw an increase of 45 per cent in its … [Read more...]

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No disk drive in new Xbox

March 13, 2012 By 1 Comment
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The reports coming from a UK based trade source say that the new Xbox console slated for a release in 2013 will not have a disk drive.  The ‘steam box’ made by Valve Software and an essential part of Xbox consoles will not be a part of the future console. MCV, the gaming industry publication has reported that this move is being undertaken by Xbox to make the gamers buy games online for their consoles.  They also claim that the new console may be called Xbox 720. The new console may also … [Read more...]

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Optical drive may be absent from Xbox 720

March 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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It seems that Microsoft is about to bring into force the decision to drop the optical drive in the up coming models of the gaming console Xbox. This decision also kind of confirms the launch of a console that is being unofficially called Xbox 720, which is slated for a launch in 2013. If the optical drive is eventually dropped users will be left with the option of having only a solid-state card storage system. They will then have to depend on broadband connections to download as the absence … [Read more...]

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