{"id":53018,"date":"2013-04-20T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53018"},"modified":"2013-04-20T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T07:19:30","slug":"xbox-720-backwards-compatible-no-always-on-new-source-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/53018-xbox-720-backwards-compatible-no-always-on-new-source-claims","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 720 backwards compatible, no always-on, new source claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new source has debunked many of the rumours about the unannounced Xbox 360 successor, saying that the forthcoming console will feature backwards compatibility, and no always-online feature.<\/p>\n<p>The source added a Pastebin document on NeoGAF, who claims that Microsoft was not happy and his posts were removed.<\/p>\n<p>His new post reveals some other alleged information on the next Microsoft console; check out some of the snippets below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou are not required to be connected to the internet in order to play Durango games and MS were NEVER considering doing such a thing. Now please, just read that last sentence over and over again until it sinks in. Done? Good.<\/li>\n<li>Ok, moving on. Have you read the VGLeaks article about the Durango specs? Yes? Good because everything you read in that article was 100% correct. Except, for one tiny little detail that MS kept guarded from most devs until very recently. That detail being that every Durango ships with a Xbox 360 SOC.<\/li>\n<li>There was a reason why MS hired so many former IBM and AMD employees. I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m not an electrical engineer (I\u2019m in software) so I won\u2019t pretend to know the ins and outs of how the 360 SOC integrates into the Durango motherboard. All I know, and all I need to know about this new change is that I (or a game dev) can use the 360 SOC in parallel with the original Durango hardware.<\/li>\n<li>What does this mean in basic terms? Well, apart from Durango having 100% BC with the 360, it also increases Durango\u2019s processing power a fair amount.<\/li>\n<li>Kinect 2.0: \u2013 Again the specs from VGLeaks are correct, there\u2019s been no change and there won\u2019t be. However, the fact is, is that software can do ANYTHING, and with the quite substantial increase in the hardware over Kinect 1.0, any humanly noticeable lag should be gone.<\/li>\n<li>Controller: \u2013 The controller is pretty much the same. The D-Pad has been improved, but the change will only be noticeable when actually using it, i.e. it looks exactly the same, I haven\u2019t actually touched it, this is just what I\u2019ve been told. AA batteries will make a return, but the new wireless tech MS has created for the controller, improves battery life by 16%. Again, this is just what the doc says.<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Mini\/Xbox TV: Yes, this is happening, although as far as I know, it\u2019s a whole different team over at MS that are handling this. As has been reported its main purpose is to compete with Apple TV, so expect this thing to be small and around $100.<\/li>\n<li>It contains the 360 SOC (similar to the one in the Durango), however no disc drive is included (to decrease size). But of course you can still play any XBLA\/Games on Demand game. That\u2019s all I really know about the xTV so I\u2019ll leave it at that. Thurrott seems to know more than anyone else about this, so go ask him.<\/li>\n<li>OS\/Services: I wish I knew more about this, but I honestly don\u2019t. I have no clue what sort of new ideas MS are going to bring to the table this gen, but I\u2019m certainly expecting them to amaze.<\/li>\n<li>The only thing that I do know for definite is that Durango will be running Windows 8. It will essentially be the full version of the OS, minus the desktop side of things. This means it\u2019ll be running the new WinRT framework, which as a side effect also means that contrary to popular belief MS will be the most indie friendly of all the big 3 next gen,\u00a0but I\u2019m certainly expecting them to amaze.<\/li>\n<li>This is because any app\/game that is created for the Windows app store will (after adding controller support of course) be playable on Durango.<\/li>\n<li>In other words, any random person worldwide can pay Microsoft a $60 license fee (for the Windows Store) and submit their app\/game to the store where millions of people can then download\/buy it. No expensive development kits needed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While this new information contradicts many of the prior details on the console, none of these details have been confirmed, so it\u2019s all speculation for now.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/avbwJc17\" target=\"_blank\">Pastebin\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More next-gen news:<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52777-bleszinkski-defends-always-online-future-of-gaming.html\">Bleszinkski defends \u201calways online\u201d future of gaming<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52764-next-gen-xbox-launch-titles-uncovered.html\">Next-gen Xbox launch titles uncovered<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52718-next-gen-xbox-will-invade-your-tv.html\">Next-gen Xbox will invade your TV<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52637-next-xbox-not-backwards-compatible-with-360-discs-report.html\">Next Xbox not backwards compatible with 360 discs: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details on Microsoft\u2019s new Xbox reportedly leaked through NeoGAF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52638,"comment_status":"closed","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-53018","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\/53018","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=53018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53018\/revisions"}],"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=53018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}