Rumor: Next Xbox to have 16 cores in processor?

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Is the next version of the Xbox game console from Microsoft going to have a CPU with a ton of cores inside? That's the claim from the UK-based print magazine Xbox World. Venture Beat reports that according to the print article, the next Xbox will have a processor based on IBM's PowerPC design that will have a whopping 16 cores inside. By comparison, the Xbox 360 only has three cores in its CPU.

The article also says that the next Xbox will have a GPU from AMD that will be based on the Radeon 7000 series graphics chip. This new rumor claims that development kits for the next Xbox have been sent to some game developers in March.

Unconfirmed reports claim that Microsoft might try to launch the next Xbox by the end of 2013. Sony is reportedly going to try to beat Microsoft to market with its follow-up to the Playstation 3, which one web site, Kotaku, claims has the code-name Orbis. The next Sony game console could have AMD making both the CPU and GPU. Finally, Nintendo has plans to release the Wii U by the end of 2012 but new, unconfirmed, claims have its graphics as powerful as the Xbox 360 or the PS3.

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Source: http://www.neogamr.net/news/rumor-next-xbox-to-have-16-cores-in-processor

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AAmbitionsIsBackPosted:

Umm. Do any of you know how much just a processor like that will effing cost??? Let alone the whole damn xbox! I am sticking with the 360 unless they stop making new games for it!!!

MPAAPosted:

PlatedMeat
MPAA 16 cores! Even a gaming PC doesn't need THAT many, I think this is one of those rumors that will prove false.


Yeah but if next generation XBOX would be a lot powerful than this generation's computer

That would be sick if console hardware would beat PC hardware


It would be ironic if THAT happened, PC has ALWAYS been ahead of the consoles. There even was a time when arcade hardware was ahead of both :P

FPS_TomiPosted:

MPAA 16 cores! Even a gaming PC doesn't need THAT many, I think this is one of those rumors that will prove false.


Yeah but if next generation XBOX would be a lot powerful than this generation's computer

That would be sick if console hardware would beat PC hardware

RosarioVampirePosted:

lol a 16 core processor costs almost 3x more than the current xbox

IntergalacticPosted:

That's going to be one great device. ;-)

Moo_Ima_CowPosted:

Ooo, so now it's gunna be wayy more money..

KnucklesTheEchidnaPosted:

cranKKK
KnucklesTheEchidna Im totally switching to PC gaming when these next gen consoles hit.


wtf are you joking?


no, and you'll probably ask why? well its because the way the next gen consoles have been looking, itll basically be a computer with a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse, taking from some internet rumors, which i know could possibly be fake, says the next gens won't play used games or have a disk tray and everything will be Download only. might as well play PC games, its the same thing, except with PC you'll have a much stronger piece of equipment and you will have much more freedom, and you don't have to pay an extra internet bill (Xbox live for example). so it will be like having the Xbox720(orw/e) with out the extra bill of Xbox live. and the freedom to do other things.

L4DillPosted:

KnucklesTheEchidna Im totally switching to PC gaming when these next gen consoles hit.


wtf are you joking?

MPAAPosted:

Zerkos
MPAA 16 cores! Even a gaming PC doesn't need THAT many, I think this is one of those rumors that will prove false.
It's not all about the cores


Do explain.

B3yondLiF3Posted:

With all the stuff they are putting in to the xbox there are going to be a lot more faults and problems.


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