Monthly XboxNext Archives January 2013

Hollywood (TheNextXbox) – Microsoft has been working towards the official announcement to the follow-up to the successful Xbox 360.  The expectation is that the successor to the Xbox 360 is going to be announced at some point on or before E3 2013 this coming June.  New reports though state that Microsoft may be taking a page out of the Apple playbook with the name of the next Xbox.

The next Xbox is going to be a beast of a console in terms of hardware specifications.  Though nothing has been confirmed as of yet, there are a lot of rumors in terms of what the console is going to feature.

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Boston (TheNextXbox) – When the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect released not too long ago, Microsoft was all aboard to try and get as many exclusives for the platform to show off the technology as possible.  During E3 2011, Crytek unveiled an Xbox 360 exclusive in Ryse that would take full advantage of the Kinect.  Now a few years later, it appears Crytek is gearing it up for a release on the next-generation Xbox, the successor to the Xbox 360.

Ryse was announced back at E3 2011 as a first-party title from Microsoft Studios.  Crytek was said to be the developer, with Microsoft the publisher.  The game, which was originaly known as Codename Kingdoms, was said to fully feature the Kinect functionality that the Xbox 360 brought to the table.

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Boston (TheNextXbox) – Microsoft is starting to make a major impact in terms of developing its own consumer electronics.  With the next-generation Xbox 360 successor the Xbox 720 just around the corner, will Microsoft leverage its popularity to help push Microsoft Surface sales?

They really made a mark with the original Xbox and the Xbox 360, and since then they have launched their own Apple iPad killer the Microsoft Surface, and are rumored to be close to buying a significant piece of the computer manufacturer Dell, which they could turn into their own computer manufacturing business.  

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Boston (TheNextXbox) – When you are getting to the point where you really want to move foward to the next-generation of video games, you want to make sure that the money you are spending is going towards true futuristic technology.  Well the specs have begun to leak out about just how powerful the next Xbox will be, so let us see what you think.

The specs for the next-generation successor to the Xbox 360, the Xbox 720, have begun to pop out thanks to a new set of leaks from VGLeaks.com

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Boston (TheNextXbox) – The successor to the Xbox 360 is right around the corner, as the Major Nelson countdown has the entire gaming world on alert. One thing that is almost a given with the successor to the Xbox 360, for the sake of this article we will call it the Xbox Next, is that it will include a Blu-ray optical drive. This is due to the fact that next-generation games are going to require a lot more space than is currently available on a DVD. This type of optical format has been utilized by Sony throughout the life of the PlayStation 3 and will continue forward to the upcoming PlayStation 4 in all likelihood as well. What many gamers are missing though, is that there is a real chance that Microsoft may opt against allowing Blu-ray movie playback on the Xbox Next.

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Las Vegas (TheNextXbox) – The successor to the Xbox 360, the Microsoft Xbox 720 or Xbox Next, is getting set for a release at some point this year.  There are many rumors and opinions as to when the follow-up to the Xbox 360 will actually release.  We wanted to talk about five likely hits though that are almost surefire guarantees to headline the launch of the next-generation Xbox 720.  let us look at five likely games for the Xbox 720 launch games line-up.

As of right now it is looking more and more like the next-generation Xbox or the Xbox 720 is going to release on one of two dates.  The likely scenarios are for it to either release in June 2013 when Major Nelson’s countdown hits zero, or it is going to release in November 2013.

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Atlanta (TheNextXbox) – When the original Microsoft Xbox released, it was the first video game console from Microsoft.  They were going up against the big guns Sony and Nintendo, who had ruled gaming for well over a decade at that point.  Microsoft needed a killer app to compete with the Sony PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube, and they found that in Halo.  Can Bungie strike magic in a bottle twice with Destiny on the successor to the Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360?

Bungie is hard at work on the upcoming next-generation video game Destiny.  This is the project name for the major franchise from one of the most popular developers in the world.

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Los Angeles (TheNextXbox) – Microsoft is clearly hard at work on the follow-up to the Xbox 360, the Xbox 720.  There are many questions though surrounding just when exactly Microsoft is going to actually release the next-generation console.

What we have done is we have targeted three different timeframes in which Microsoft could release the successor to the Xbox 360.  We are going to analyze each of the potential release dates, as they all have plusses as well as minuses to them.  Microsoft has some major strategy at play here with the Nintendo Wii U already on the market, and the Sony PlayStation 4 getting ready to release in 2013 as well.

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Boston (TheNextXbox) – The successor to the Microsoft Xbox 360, the Xbox 720 or Xbox Next, will support both optical discs as well as digital downloads over Xbox Live.

With the release of the Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo has made a move where all of the retail games that are released in retail stores on discs are also released day and date online in digital form through the Nintendo E Shop.

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