Xbox 720 – Speculations, Truths and Wonders

It’s always difficult assuming and wondering what the next future tech release will encompass but we feel that we have done just enough research to discuss the theories surrounding Microsoft’s Xbox 720.

According to recent speculations and various articles, we can safely assume that Microsoft’s newest offering, namely the Xbox 720, will be released in 2011. We believe also, that not only will Xbox be arriving as soon as this, but Playstation 4 will be hot on the heels and desperately aiming for a similar launch date (if not sooner in 2011). This speculation comes from the Crytek President and CEO, Cevat Yerli.

We would like to think that Xbox wont be trying to follow in the footsteps of the Nintendo Wii and so expect the following with regard to Xbox 720; 16 or 32 processing cores (including onboard graphics), 8GB of DDR memory, broadband connectivity and a hard disk that delivers terabytes rather than gigabytes of storage space.

Terabytes, you ask? Well let’s just say that the biggest issue in the Xbox is the fact that 60GB just doesn’t cut it anymore! Playstation 3 already released a 160GB hard drive which is more in line with what consumers need. We should be seeing a trend to being able to download bigger games, movies and the like straight from the downloadable source, without having to worry about storage (or the lack thereof more likely) …

We’re also assuming that what with all this space and power we’ll be needing to make our lives fun, game and download friendly, something such as an intel processor should be on the cards.

If all these speculations are correct, then 2011 roll on up … I need my new console baby!

[source]