Xbox Next

Microsoft leaked some details on the current plans for Xbox Next...

It's going to run on 3 G5 processors (yes, the same as Apple's), have no hard drive, and might not be compatible with the first generation Xbox.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/7849191.htm

They are testing prototype games on Apple Dual G5's... Funny...

Those details are subject to change... They are waiting to see what Sony does before they finalize any specs. Which seems really stupid to me. Again all they are focusing on is how many jiggawatz their machine can process, not how fun the games are... I'll stick with Nintendo...

Well other then that fact that it doesnt have a hard drive, or that it might not play the original xbox games, really kindof pisses me off. I had faith in microsoft (for one of the first times in my life) and now they dont really rank that high on my list of respect.

They better makes some GOOD changes to that list of things for the xbox next or im really going to be pissed and not buy one. I can live with my original xbox i guess :(

Yeah i think it's weird of them to not put a hard drive in... Kind of taking a step backwards. Unless they would end up releasing it for like $200 in the beginning or something. But with 3 g5's it'll still probably be pretty expensive... They'll probably lose even more money on it than the original.

Okay, so the first Xbox was just like having another PC and now this one will just be like havinga G5? Oh the insanity! Nintedo and Sony shall prevail!


(I'm still waiting for Sega to make a come back (Not going to happen). Dreamcast 2! Dreamcast was AMAZING. WAYYY ahead of its time...)

I always read about how great the dreamcast was... then i buy one... then i don't have any fun playing any of the games so I sell it... i've done that twice....

Well, what games did you get fool? Plus, you have to probably like a lot of Japanese style things, seeing that Dreamcast was heavily Japan based.


Samba De Amigo was a pretty wicked awesome game....

I had a dance game... and sonic adventures... and that one where you talk to the fish with the microphone... and some others that i can't remember.

Well the G5 chip was not made by apple but by IBM (I wouls be fun to see a pc mother board who support those...) But is true its funny to see the microsoft useing Mac to test their futur game...

The point is it's not a Intel chip, which is normally Microsoft's chip of choice... And after all the G5 bashing the Windows guys like to do, their own precious Microsoft has decided that the same chip they are constantly bashing is superior in cost, or performance, or scalability or all three, to Intel's and AMD's chips which the Windows gamers love to flaunt as the fastest thing since lightning. But whatever... The only game anyone will play on it will be Halo 3... And it'll be the same as Halo 1 with more polygons and bumps on the maps... :P

Obviously Deker hasn't seen Halo 2.

NOTE: I don't have an XBox, nor do I want one. I've got a PS2. I have played Halo and have seen Halo 2 though.