{"id":52637,"date":"2013-04-09T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52637"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T09:50:28","slug":"next-xbox-not-backwards-compatible-with-360-discs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52637-next-xbox-not-backwards-compatible-with-360-discs-report","title":{"rendered":"Next Xbox not backwards compatible with 360 discs: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52623-microsoft-rescheduling-xbox-reveal.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rumours surrounding the next-generation Xbox<\/a> are becoming more and more prevalent, and the latest hints towards the forthcoming console\u2019s chipset.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on Bloomberg, the system will utilise a chip based on the AMD Jaguar APU architecture.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the console will move away from the Power PC technology to an x86 system, which means that Xbox 360 discs won\u2019t work on the console.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional disc-based backwards compatibility will then likely not be an option \u2013 something that Sony has also excluded from its Playstation 4.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now been speculated that Microsoft will unveil its new console on 21 May 2013, according to The Verge.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-08\/microsoft-said-to-adopt-amd-chips-for-next-xbox-console.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on next-gen:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52623-microsoft-rescheduling-xbox-reveal.html\">Microsoft rescheduling next Xbox reveal?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52602-microsoft-employee-tweets-about-next-gen-xbox-cause-uproar.html\">Microsoft employee tweets about next-gen Xbox cause uproar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/52500-5-next-gen-engines-and-tech.html\">5 next-gen engines and tech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources claim AMD chips will feature in Xbox 720, rendering Xbox 360 discs incompatible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52638,"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],"tags":[21,791,1239,1853,9008,789],"class_list":["post-52637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-next-gen","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-ps4-vs-xbox-720","tag-xbox-720"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52639,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637\/revisions\/52639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}