It seems that Microsoft’s plans for the upcoming 360 successor have been made public via a leak. An internal strategy document was recently found on Scribd.com that gives a strikingly detailed look at the company’s plans for the new console’s hardware, and doesn’t it sound delicious.
Throughout 54 pages, the document details many curious additions and proclamations about the yet-to-be-announced system, such as the inclusion of a Blu-Ray drive, a new Kinect titled V.2, hardware level emulation of 360 games, built-in DVR functionality and HD video capturing, native 3D support, dual-core CPU for enhanced media playback and multitasking, and much, much more.
The power of the system itself is detailed meticulously, with claims that it’s 8 times more powerful than the current 360 while running on half the power, has 4 gigs of RAM, a 6-8 core x86 or ARM-based CPU, and will run games that look “4-6 times better” than the current generation.
The price? $300 with the new Kinect, which would probably be the greatest value in next-gen gaming if all of this is true. Of course, it sounds preposterous, but take this into account: among the dozens of pages is information on SmartGlass, which was just announced at E3, but the document itself is dated to late 2010.
Also of note is the existence of a Roku/Apple/Google TV-like box called the “Xbox 361,” cloud support, “never needing to upgrade your hardware ever again,” and… well, you can look into Microsoft’s alleged business philosophy below in the full leaked document. No matter what, this would have to be one of the most detailed fakes this industry has seen in recent memory.
The draft has since been taken down due to “copyright infringement”.
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This would be great if it's priced at 300 dollars. I would definitely buy one.
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LikeThe only thing that makes me doubt this news is that a 4 GB Xbox 360 with Kinect currently costs the same amount.
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LikeDcalebX That's where it gets preposterous. The price is ludicrous, and if they think they can make the money back on Xbox Live and accessories and games, I think they're in for a shock.
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LikeI dunno that I can believe the Blu Ray drive. Wouldn't they have to pay Sony for every Xbox sold?
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Likedmcgee627 This is a really confusing thing to go into, but every feature a console uses, from Blu-Ray to USB to whatever, has to be licensed. Microsoft assuredly licenses plenty of things from Sony that we don't know about, and Sony does, too. The relationship isn't so black and white, like most people think. For example, the Vita has Skype, yet MS owns it.
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