The first video game consoles of the next generation to arrive, reportedly, at the end of 2012. Including Ubisoft and Electronic Arts would work on hardware with similar specifications as that of the alleged new Xbox.
The British gameswebsite Edge writes that Ubisoft Montreal has for some time been working on so-called ‘target boxes’. Even before the end of 2011 would be the first dev kits to be delivered to the developers. Edge writes that the AMD graphics chip delivers for the final console. The concerned publishers would not respond to the rumors.
The rumors about a possible introduction or announcement of a new Xbox have been going for some time. This week it claimed the French website Xboxygen, Microsoft the hardware specifications of the new Xbox at the Consumer Electronics Show, early January in Las Vegas, will release. Also Xboxygen expected that the AMD gpu.
Except Microsoft would also Sony is already busy with a new console. Edge says in the same article, that at least one ontwikkelstudio of Sony’s focus has shifted from the PlayStation 3 to its successor. That studio would also play an important role in the development of the graphics technology of the device. When the new PlayStation is announced, it will be is not yet known.
According to Edge like Microsoft and Sony both first console on the market. The Xbox 360 came a year earlier than the PlayStation 3, and as a result, the console of Microsoft worldwide still have a small edge over the PS3. Of the console of Microsoft, according to Edge 57.6 million copies sold, while the PS3 55.5 million times over the counter is gone.
Furthermore, Microsoft and Sony, by in 2012 for a new console to present, the wind out of the sails of the Wii U can take. Edge expects that Nintendo’s new console during the E3 in its final form will be shown, and what computing power concerns, in particular, will be suitable for games that run on the hardware of the current Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. By al in 2012 to move to new hardware, would Microsoft and Sony the third-party support for the Wii U down.