{"id":26989,"date":"2011-11-22T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26989"},"modified":"2011-11-22T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:58:35","slug":"michael-pachter-next-gen-xbox-rumours-are-%e2%80%9csilly%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26989-michael-pachter-next-gen-xbox-rumours-are-%e2%80%9csilly%e2%80%9d","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pachter: next-gen Xbox rumours are &#8220;silly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours of a new <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox<\/a> coming out next year have been circling the toilet for several weeks now, and just refusing to flush down.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> isn\u2019t saying anything one way or the other, but gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter has taken the opportunity to tell everybody they\u2019re mad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose rumors are silly. Microsoft is still selling a ton of Xbox 360s, and they won\u2019t replace the existing one until sales begin to slow,\u201d he told IndustryGamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the rumors are based upon leaks about modifying the current Xbox 360 to allow it to operate Windows 8. I fully expect a new model of Xbox 360 by holiday 2012, but don\u2019t think we see a new console altogether from Microsoft until 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which, when you stop and think about it a moment, does kind of make more sense than launching a brand new console while the old one is still doing just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, Windows.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"IndustryGamers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\/news\/xbox-720-wont-launch-until-2014-rumors-for-2012-are-just-plain-silly\/\">IndustryGamers<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won&#8217;t be coming in 2012 &#8211; reckons Microsoft won\u2019t be putting out a Nextbox until 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":26991,"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":[2,4],"tags":[793,91,791,789],"class_list":["post-26989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-analyst","tag-microsoft","tag-next-gen","tag-xbox-720"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26993,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26989\/revisions\/26993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}