However, the notion of dual Kinect cameras to improve field of view seems like a viable, if pricey, solution to some of the tech's current shortcomings. The latter sounds somewhat similar to the Xenos GPU currently found in the Xbox , which could be useful bearing in mind that the spec also plans to incorporate the existing Xenon CPU in its entirety for the purposes of backwards compatibility with current games.
The notion of including what amounts to an entire CPU seems extreme - Sony did it with the launch PS3s of course, but quickly scaled that back owing to the expense. While Xenon would be very, very small at the latest 28nm production process, servicing backwards compatibility would still make more sense by opting for a new PowerPC core designed to support old games and new - the route Nintendo appears to have chosen with Wii U.
The lack of anything approaching concrete specs is a little puzzling - even at the summer stage, we would have expected Microsoft to have locked down the absolute basics like the choice of processing architecture. According to highly respected engineers we have talked to, it typically takes at least two years of engineering work to devise a new CPU or GPU, and typically you'd want to give "close to final" kit to developers at least months ahead of release.
The idea of Microsoft being at the conceptual stage in summer with no firm decisions on the most basic elements of the architecture seems odd to say the least. Credibility starts to be strained still further when we look at actual metrics mooted in the docs. Perhaps we are looking at this with the hindsight of what can actually be achieved at the 28nm process level - something Microsoft's engineers would not have been able to back in summer - but this all sounds supremely optimistic.
If p is being targeted, we'd essentially be looking at current gen titles being rendered at full HD with not much else left over. The document has some interesting ideas on 'transmedia' gaming - the idea being that real-time data from actual events is beamed directly into gameplay. The example mooted sees Tiger Woods at St. Andrews being recreated in-game so you can play against him. App access in-game is also suggested - a basic example being access to game guides while you play.
At this point, the leaked document is looking demonstrably dodgy, and the brevity of coverage on the actual hardware almost zero emphasis, in fact strongly suggests a basic estimate thrown in there without much thought. That said, now we see the specs page in context of the complete page document, it becomes clear that the actual engineering nuts and bolts in putting together the next-gen Xbox are far from the authors' primary concern.
This is a discussion document - and a first draft at that - about where to take the brand next, and how to better integrate gaming with multimedia consumption. If "Yukon" was ever actually a work-in-progress Xbox platform it would be eventually be superseded by other iterations including Project Ten and the current codename, Durango, both of which we have had confirmed from very reliable sources.
Clearly the focus of this document is elsewhere. What lends some kind of authenticity to the document is the focus on transitioning the Xbox away from core games only and furthering the notion of the hardware as a portal for services, more tightly integrated with the gaming experience.
The idea here is to allow for the layering of content - play Gears of War, and run a specific ESPN ticker app, for example. Picture-in-picture would also be possible, in concert with background TV show recording and media streaming along with a new concept being described as "Transmedia Gaming".
Andrews and see his shots inserted in real time in your game experiences," says the presentation - suggesting that actual sporting events could beam data into your video games.
It's an interesting concept, but once again comes across more as a flight of fancy rather than an actual viable experience. Assuming a live broadcast, someone, somewhere would need to be digitising this data in real-time and beaming it over to the Xbox. In theory, Tiger's in-game performance could be extrapolated from raw stats alone, and another option would be to include the player in live sporting events by giving him his own "turn" on the course while the real event occurs concurrently.
Another intriguing concept is the idea of virtual hangouts where players interact with other gamers in basic social games, while the environment plays host to multiple sporting videostreams, which feeds real-time data to a fantasy football simulation.
On a more practical gameplay level there is the suggestion that the new Xbox could also allow for game strategy guides to be run concurrently with the game itself - something we'd imagine people currently do either with guidebooks or via their smartphones or tablets. Adding credibility to the document are conceptual forerunners to Smart Glass - the new technology that sees media playback rolling from Xbox to tablet to phone, along with "companion content" presumably along the lines of what we saw at E3 - though gameplay applications are not covered.
Interestingly this is mooted as a " experience" while the reality is that this was bumped up to be a feature of Xbox This generation is running long in the tooth, so this new hardware is desperately needed to revitalize the market. We still have a lot of unanswered questions from both Microsoft and Sony, so the fate of the industry remains in the air.
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. We like this minimalist approach to the future of Xbox, as well as the option of watching the disc spin. It reminds us of doing laundry. This additional view of the previous concept shows how the clever way the system uses the letter X to balance said system. Even magazines owned by the same corporation as GamesRadar got in on the act of visualizing the future of Xbox. Sadly, Xbox World was closed before it could see how accurate this system might be.
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