Xbox 720, Durango announcement delayed a month

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New information concerning when Microsoft will formally announce their next-generation home console – codenamed Durango – surfaced on March 28.

According to a Tweet by Paul Thurrott, an individual who has sources within Microsoft and was one of the first to hint at an April reveal, it appears that the Xbox 720 – or Durango – will not be announced in April as previously expected.

Thurrott shares that Microsoft’s planned reveal of their next-gen home console has been delayed by a month.

His full Tweet reads:

That April Xbox announce? Pushed back a month.

With a delay in place, this points to Microsoft announcing the Xbox 720 just prior to E3 2013 if the company decides to announce it in May.

Currently Microsoft’s Major Nelson has a countdown running on his website that ends at the start of E3; a possible indicator of when Durango will be announced and shown to the public.

Hopefully the wait for Microsoft to announce their next-generation console is not much longer. If it is to take place before E3 2013 at a Xbox 720 exclusive event, invitations should start arriving to media during the latter half of April.

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Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/xbox-720-durango-announcement-delayed-a-month

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OzarPosted:

i dont want new console :(

Zer0Posted:

Mitzz why is it called durango? i wonder how they got that name


its a code name so we might never know
but i have a very good source that tells me they picked it out of a hat..

KixaPosted:

Mitzz why is it called durango? i wonder how they got that name
Its a devkit i beleave

WageringPosted:

This will be worth the wait. :D

XKSR95Posted:

This is what Microsoft does best, the announcement was probably always going to be either just before, or at E3. They are just building up as much hype about the console as they can. I do hope they announce it soon though so we can get all of these crazy rumours out of the way, and I'm sure Microsoft don't like these rumours either because some of them are just ridiculous.

Taker34Posted:

LMS
Hoyt
Medion
Zyme
PX-21
Zyme
Goblin-
Red-Sox-Nation Im sure they feel the pressure with the ps4 coming out soon


It's going to see how competitive sales are.. How many commercials each will have.. How much advertising. Wow this should be funny haha

Xbox will always dominate ps3.


Xbox will always dominate PS3. Is that why Microsoft is putting blu ray into the 720?


Apart from that Xbox dominates you i would rather pay for servers then get it free and get hacked and lose all my money


Lol. That's why Sony always sold more consoles than MS? Xbox never really dominated... the first xbox was slightly more popular than the Gamecube and a overall failure. The 360 sold 1 M. units less than the PS3 which came out a whole year later. :-)

PedanticPosted:

I'm not to sure on the name tbh.

MitzzPosted:

why is it called durango? i wonder how they got that name

123STEjPosted:

from rumors the xbox 720/durango sounds horrible i hope its all false and its actually gunna be good but also with them pushing the announcement back maybe it wont come out this year? maybe early next year idk but it better be good

TTUPosted:

Hoyt
Medion
Zyme
PX-21
Zyme
Goblin-
Red-Sox-Nation Im sure they feel the pressure with the ps4 coming out soon


It's going to see how competitive sales are.. How many commercials each will have.. How much advertising. Wow this should be funny haha

Xbox will always dominate ps3.


Xbox will always dominate PS3. Is that why Microsoft is putting blu ray into the 720?


Apart from that Xbox dominates you i would rather pay for servers then get it free and get hacked and lose all my money



Besides Sony didn't even use Blu-ray well on the PS3... Took ages to load stuff, they didn't even use the disc's advantage which is disc space... PS3 didn't use Blu-ray well at all and that actually made the normal disc that the 360 used better... they didn't need the extra space and the disc's were much faster. But they need it in the next gen as games are getting bigger in size.


I think i would rather an extra 5 second load time than having to change disc's all the time.


But again, Sony didn't use the disc to their advantage. Wasting a Blu-Ray disc on crud, mostly


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