{"id":15411,"date":"2011-11-08T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-xbox-720-smaller-cheaper-to-use-windows-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/15411-rumour-xbox-720-smaller-cheaper-to-use-windows-9","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Xbox 720 &#8211; smaller, cheaper, to use Windows 9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the internet&#8217;s most trusted sources when it comes to anything <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Microsoft<\/a> related, MSNerd, has spilled some tasty morsels regarding the company&#8217;s next generation console.<\/p>\n<p>MSNerd is a well respected Microsoft leak blogger, so we&#8217;re taking note of this one.<\/p>\n<p>Refered to as the Xbox 720 in the public domain, Microsoft&#8217;s next generation console has apparently been given the codename &#8220;Loop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The leak claims it will be much smaller than the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\" target=\"_self\" title=\"System Information\">Xbox 360<\/a>, and that it will also be a lot cheaper to manufacture. Furthermore, the new console will be based on a modified version of Windows 9.<\/p>\n<p>According to MSNerd, &#8220;It will use a Zune HD-like hardware platform&mdash;a&nbsp; &#8216;main&#8217; processor with multiple dedicated assistive cores for graphics, AI, physics, sound, networking, encryption and sensors. It will be custom designed by Microsoft and two partners based on the ARM architecture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course Microsoft has not announced or even made mention of its next generation console in any official capacity, but many are expecting a reveal during next year&#8217;s E3.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/msnerd.tumblr.com\/post\/12233928364\/clarity\" target=\"_blank\">MSNerd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20377-Xbox-720-rumour-smaller-cheaper-and-to-use-Windows-9\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rumour: Xbox 720 - smaller, cheaper, to use Windows 9?\"><strong>Rumour: Xbox 720 &#8211; smaller, cheaper, to use Windows 9?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft leak blogger reveals juicy details regarding next generation console <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}