RUMOR: Next-gen Xbox is in manufacturing stage

[garyopa]

Work has started at Flextronics (Austin, Texas)



According to a IGN source, the next Xbox may be in production right now.

Video games website IGN is reporting that one of their fonts suggested them that the next-Xbox has started its production at Flextronics in Austin, Texas.

The same place where the Xbox 360 is being made and also the original one.

According to IGN:

The next Xbox console is apparently in the manufacturing stages. According to an IGN source, assembly of the next-generation Xbox hardware started recently at the Austin, Texas branch of Flextronics. This is the same electronics company currently assembling Xbox 360 hardware, and is the manufacturer of the original Xbox.

Prior to reaching the manufacturing stage, Flextronics created a new testing group separate from the rest of the company. This team was solely dedicated to comprehensive marketing, software, and hardware tests of the next Xbox. With that activity concluded, Flextronics started building the hardware -- but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll see the Durango soon.

Microsoft and Flextronics have refused to comment so it's better to stay skeptical about this.

NEWS SOURCE: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/05/0...-the-next-xbox

Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!

[WoIverine]

Meh, I saw some rumored specs of the Xbox 720, and PS4, they're using severly underpowered GPU's compared to what is available now ALREADY in the PC market. By the time the consoles debut, gpu's for pcs will be at least 2-3 generations more advanced.

[DEDDOA]

Meh, I saw some rumored specs of the Xbox 720, and PS4, they're using severly underpowered GPU's compared to what is available now ALREADY in the PC market. By the time the consoles debut, gpu's for pcs will be at least 2-3 generations more advanced.

Given the more powerfull PC GPU's will set you back £400+ before even factoring in the rest of the hardware (I know this to well as the cost for one Radeon 7970 was enough to make me just buy another 2 6970's instead for the same price), I doubt they are going to be wanting to use them anyway, they would make the £425 PS3 look comparatively cheap. Thats said, PC GPU's are are always under used given that it's hard to optimise for so many configurations, the likes of the AMD/NVIDIA tech demo's that are not matched in games untill a generation or 2 later kind of highlights this. A mid range GPU coupled with a mid range CPU etc, will perform as well as high end PC configurations of the same generation or similar simply due to them being fully optimised, and what you see in tech demo's is what you get in games as they are not in need of neutering to take into account that the hardware and feature set may not be available in all the possible configurations.