Needs mouse support as well! It's a shame, I'd love to play with my console player friends but I simply find console controllers incredible unintuitive and generally can not enjoy them. If they added mouse support, I'd become an instant customer.

(or ever better, add multiplatform compatibility, but fat chance of that happening for the vast majority of games. I think that CS:GO will have it, but unfortunately that the game is complete and utter bullshit)

According to AMD, the development of Xenos involved a large separate team. They already had the unified shader design in place before either one, but you're right; the first use was in Xenos, and the 2xxx were later. Considering the whole 2xxx series fell into the "that dog don't hunt" category, it is surprising that Microsoft was able to get so much out of Xenos for so long.

The most popular rumor I have been seeing is that the "720" will use a 6-core Bulldozer-like Fusion APU. And again, just because that's the way Microsoft swings, I'd expect it will have some bells and whistles that retail Bulldozers don't.

Windows will integrate XBOX LIVE in itself, so in theory it would be possible to play multiplayer with your Xbox and Windows Phone friends.

We'll see how that goes.

You're right it doesn't have to be a standard processor, but I think it's a good bet that it will be compatible with standard processors. The main reason being that I think they're going to try to make it as small of a headache as possible to develop for both Windows and XBox, or at least I thought that's what the purpose of the G4WL requirements reusing all those XBox conventions was.

The current 360 chip is an APU and offered an automatic doubling in speed they have had to add limiters to the chip to keep it at the correct speed, apparently the lost latency was enough to increase speed that much alone wonder what clock it could have run at...

As the chip is fabbing at IBM it's almost definately a PPC again this time aswell


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A thing to remember is the 2400 series was designed around the original DX10 spec before NV got MS to completely rewrite it... if DX10 had released as originally planned (far closer to what is now DX11) it would have been a vastly superior chip to the 8800 series in specs though since DX9 is still the main DX version used it still wouldn't have mattered that much

Well, Windows 8 is coming with DirectX 11.2... I really hope that the next Xbox uses 11.2 and doesn't support other versions.

It'll support the Xbox version of DX9 without a doubt in a legacy mode for backwards compatability I just hope they lock that down so if you want to use that render path you only get the power of a 360 and are forced to use DX11.1 to get full power