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Gaming site Kotaku and technology site Engadget reported on rumors today on the upcoming sequel to the very successful Xbox 360. One quite startling piece of information said that the upcoming system will not be able to play used games. How they would be able to pull this off was not clear, but it is widely known that the gaming companies have been in uproar since they do not receive any revenue on games that are resold. This is quite the bitch move by Microsoft if true, and something I hope won’t come to be true.
Some more specs rumored to be included in the next Xbox console is a GPU based on AMD’s 6000 series, bumping up the power six times the 360. It is also said to be about 20% more powerful than the soon-to-be-released Nintendo Wii U. I’m not entirely sure how those two numbers go together since the specs of the Wii U is said to only be slightly higher than the 360’s. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see on that one.
Other rumors were the inclusion of a Blu-ray player, finally getting the Xbox brand’s storage capacity up to speed with the Playstation. However, this may be shown to become a moot point since bigger and better games requires bigger and better storage capacity. So if Blu-ray is the next generation’s DVD, Microsoft will once again fall behind.
Of course the console will be sold together with a new iteration of Microsoft’s huge success Kinect, bringing motion gaming forward into yet another generation of gaming consoles.
The machine is said to be released late 2013 or early 2014.
What do you think the next Xbox will include? What is your thoughts on taking away the ability to play used games? Let me know in the comments below.
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