xbox 720 vs Wii u (Rumors)

Reports are saying that the next Xbox will begin production late in the year and be released in fall 2013.

Production of Microsoft's Xbox 720 is expected to begin by late in 2012 and will have a GPU coming from AMD'S 6000 series. IGN reports that the Xbox 720 is expected to have six times the graphic capability of the Xbox 360 and have 20 percent more power than Nintendo's upcoming Wii U.

According to sources, the new Xbox will be introducing a new version of Kinect, its hands-free sensor system. Kinect 2 would have an on-board processor, which would more effectively detect a users' motion. Also, the Xbox 720 is expected to have a smaller controller.

Kotaku.com reports that Microsoft plans to include an anti-used game system in their Xbox 720, but it was not certain exactly how they had planned to do so. One method would be to link a game with a user's Xbox Live account, but that can be beaten by keeping a system offline

Microsoft's next incarnation of the Xbox console will include yet another AMD graphics chip, a Northern Islands-based one, from the likes of it, when it reaches the market in Late 2013.

According to sources close to manufacturing, IGN has established that the upcoming Xbox '720' will feature an AMD Radeon HD 6670-like chip, or at least something of equivalent performance.

To PC users this will look like a pittance, in particular in that timeframe, but to console gamers, the site says, this will be a six-fold gain in graphics performance. It will also be the first time that Xbox gamers will experience true 1080p gaming performance, 3D viewing and DirectX11.

Xenos, the original Xbox 360 GPU based on AMD's (ATI at the time) R520 architecture, is in its 4th incarnation. After three successful die shrinks it eventually merged with the Xenon CPU in the lastest Xbox 360 S, creating the XCGPU, a single package, dual-die, CPU and GPU combo. Reports make it increasingly likely that Microsoft will merge the PowerPC CPU with the AMD GPU on a 32nm manufacturing process, at least at first, as the first batch of Xbox '720' will go to the game developer community.

Precise details are, to say the least, scarce. AMD has refused to comment on rumours, but politely reminded us that they have also taken the Wii U design. The Xbox GPU, says IGN, will be a further 20 percent more powerful than the upcoming Wii U, which is also another AMD design win

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[blp689]

Even though the 720 will be 6x more powerful than the 360 that still isn't even close to what average PC hardware is at. Kinda sad tbh.

[Y2JArmyofficial]

@blp689 well enouth talking about this whole thing,if u know anything about AMD Radeon HD 6670,and what it can do,then please share,i have abosolutly no idea about this kinds of thing

[Y2JArmyofficial]

@blp689 really?i aways pay attetion every week or so,and i rarely see a pc game on the top charts ,the only one now is star wars game

[blp689]

@Y2JArmyofficial Don't know where you are looking but 2011 had 94% growth of software. Maybe you are looking at 2012? That would make sense though because PC shrunk less than every platform, but the new handhelds. Also, everything is going to drop right after Christmas, it always does.