January 25th, 2012
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The next gen console spec rumors just won’t stop. Only yesterday we saw a new rumor involving the “next Xbox” packing six times the power of the 360. Today, Kotaku is reporting a slew of information on the rumored system.
Games industry sources have told Kotaku the next Xbox will use Blu-Ray, intends to incorporate a type of anti-used game mechanic, and will introduce the Kinect 2. Kotaku states “It’s not clear if that means that the system wouldn’t play used games or how such a set-up would work“.
Kotaku reached out to Microsoft about this report and received the following response;
“As an innovator we’re always thinking about what is next and how we can push the boundaries of technology like we did with Kinect. We believe the key to extending the lifespan of a console is not just about the console hardware, but about the games and entertainment experiences being delivered to consumers. Beyond that we don’t comment on rumors or speculation.”
Although only a rumor, that anti-used game part is an interesting thought indeed. How would such a feature be implemented into a console? How bad or good would such a thing be for gamers? Give us your thoughts on this rumor below.
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If so, it’s definitely PS4 or PC for me, I can’t live without used games.
pc? ok enjoy playing used games on them lol. Though new pc games are as cheap as used games from gamestop so there is a plus and better graphics, and what not so I would recommerd a pc
Yeah, the steam sales are good enough to supplement the used game market for me.
agreed
kinda lame when you have to buy a game overpriced at gamestores
Definitely? Gee I wonder what that word is in the beginning of the headline, rumor? What if Sony does it as well, what excuse will you come up with then? *IF* MS did this, they would shoot themselves in the foot, the used market shouldn’t be ignored.
Lol I can see it already, my new PS fanboy mantra:
“So the next xbork is nothing but an expensive bluray copycat player that doesn’t play used games.”
Levity aside. I don’t have much qualms against online pass. And I hardly buy used games. But employing systems to prevent a hardware from playing used games is a terrible terrible idea. It’s hack bait that’s for sure.
This has got to be Microsoft’s most idiotic idea yet. Pushing the boundaries of technology my ass! The used gaming community is quite large and those people (including myself) will not buy a dictator console. Software producers and brilliant developers will suffer drastically. Seriously, most people don’t have the kind of cash to spend $60 on a game a month, and most hardcore gamers play more than 12 games a year. The poll of the day over at GameFAQs verifies this fact http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4610
I agree although I seriously doubt they will implement something like that, it would be idiotic.
lol Bet you if that Blu Ray rumor, it’ll suddenly be the greatest thing since sliced bread in the minds of Xbots. That’s funny. Just 5 minutes ago, you guys “didn’t need it”. Pathetic.
I still don’t.
For my xBox 360.
Xbots were talking about 360, you’re talking about 720.
For 720 – yeah, can’t go next gen with small DVDs.
Idiot.
i like xbox (and ps3) and xbox 360 doesnt need it, 720 or whatever will. And no bluray wont make the next xbox the best thing ever. Who are these xbots you keep talking about, i mean stop arguing with 12 year old kids.
You must be new here. See fanboys on this website spout crazy, tin-foil non-sense to start internet battles with other food-canister-padlocked-to-keep-nano-machines-out crazies to determine which non-animate object is superior. Good times. Rarely do intelligent debates occur.
To say that the X360 doesn’t need the Blu ray is like to say that the PS3 does’t need more main RAM. Sure, both can have great games with their current specs, but it makes the development job much harder and in the case of the Blu Ray sometimes restricted.
To fit FF XIII in the X360 3 DVDs the game had to come out very linear (ad very compressed in the MD console). To fit FF XIII-2 SE had to take out the FMVs. So this IS what the X360 is doing to the industry.
WHERES BUYING1999!!!!
I HATE ALL FANBOYS IN GENERAL!
(sorry for caps just used them so you can see how i feel about fanboys ( both xbox360 and ps3 ones)
On-topic :
Next-gen must be really close , rumors won’t stop popping up!
Give him time, Elementary School isn’t out yet.
No used games? I’m sorry, but who the hell cares?
Bluray player? Good for videophiles like me when 1080p streaming isn’t quite enough…
Radeon 6670 for the next 7-8 years?
-Goes back to playing BF3 on pc w/ Radeon 6990-
Must suck having to play BF3 without being able to use vehicles…
wow this website has become rumor or truth.
i swear i get sick and tired of seeing rumor this, rumor that, rumor this. please stick to true news
Hmmm… time to start my own rumors. PS4 won’t come out till 2016, in lieu with Sony’s initial 10-year console life cycle projection.
We’r all going to be xbots!
No, sony said they will support the ps3 for 10 years. so if the ps4 comes out in 2013, they will still be supporting the ps3 for at least another 3 years after the ps4 comes out.
“As an innovator “…………….. lol i lmfao when i heard that. hahahahaha god i cant stop lololololololololololololololol
So M$ are finally givng in and supportin blu ray after how long? 7 years i think. Once again they are behind the times. Cant wait to hear the stories on how teh next lamebox scratches disks and rrod
I cant see an anti used games going down well, I think that will be quickly removed onec confirmed.
If the anti-second hand games is true, one less console sold here
I wont apploy this.
Knowing how “innovative” SONY is, with no doubt they will copy the same strategy.
actually sony has a patent on a way of making used games unusable (it involved leaving a writable space on the disc that would get written to the first time a game is played with the console’s mac address and locking the disc to that console. since 2001 they’ve tested it on every console since but have decided thus far that implementing it would cause more consumer backlash than they could afford.
anyways all these rumors are crap. people are just fanning the flames and guessing based on what would currently be viable for a console at a 300-400 dollar price range.
Rumor: “Next Xbox will do what PS3 has done since 2006″
While PS3 was in development there was the same rumor about used games. This was rumored around the same time the system was going to have 2 hdmi outputs and an ethernet switch box built in
Yea i was just thinking about that…
This is just a assessment of my own and I could be just totally wrong or making myself sound like an idiot.
No used games, how? unless the console is mandatory always online. Will the game have a serial key or will the games have unique identifiers similar to a MAC or SID? If so mandatory online would be a must because storing a Hash on you appliance would easily be cracked and people will be able to generate key’s.
A mandatory online console and no used games, say good buy to consoles, good ridden at that!
Guys are you seriously believing this crap.
1) Microsoft will never pay Sony for the right to use Bluray.
2) Microsoft does not lose money on used and new games. The more games out there for their system new or used is better for them because people will need a system to play it on.
Blu ray technology is owned by Blu-ray Disc Association which Sony is only a part of. There are 18 other companies involved so it would take more than just Sony to stand in Microsoft’s way.
“1) Microsoft will never pay Sony for the right to use Bluray.”
Umm.. why not? Sony uses Microsoft Windows on their computers.
^ that is a very good point and possible I suppose. Knowing MS though, I wouldn’t be surprised if they develop thier own specific media, or use the old HD-DVD for thier console games alone. Would work well with anti-piracy anyway.
I don’t beleive any of this to be true, simply because judging by this concept, that means as soon as i put a game into my system and use it once, its a used games. so does that mean i have to go out and buy it again?
No no, I imagine each game to install some kind of file onto the XBox HD that will only recognise the original disk and refuse to play any other copies of the game. Quite stupid really, and I highly doubt it is true.
LOL, where’s buying1999 today?
He changed his Nick to “Android123″
Stupid rumors!
Why even post crap like this?
Any PC gamers in here?
I’ve got $1000, and I want to build a nice PC.
I’ve already picked the CPU:
AMD FX-8150 3.60 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology
I really don’t know what else to put in it.
@REPTILE360666
You have a thousand dollars and you are putting an AMD CPU in your rig:D?
lol
Intel outperforms AMD, but Intel is expensive as hell!
What do you recommend?
reptile an i5-2500k is better than amd at gaming and almost everything else and it costs less and you can bundle it with a motherboard at microcenter as well and get a $50 discount. I recommend a pcie 3.0 sli motherboard. Your mb+cpu combo will set you $300 incl. tax from microcenter
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/55af2b66#/55af2b66/27
here is the microcenter catalogue with the intel deal.
The AMD Octo core CPU is actually faster once applications uses all the 8 cores, but you really can’t feel any difference as long as you have a pretty good CPU, I have a Phenom II X4 @ 3.8GHz 8Gb DDR3, memory, and a HD6950, and there is no game, and no job I can’t run. Personally I stay with AMD because I support competition, and AMD’s products are still very good.
Hmmm. Interesting rumour. Firtly I think the inclusion of Blu-ray is a realistic option. can’t move into next Gen with the smll DVD’s. Either that of MS develop thier own media. It will be odd as Sony owns the rights to Blu-ray as far as I know. Quite humbling for MS to get into bed with the competitior.
As far as the rumour about used game non-compatibility, i think thats balls. That would be console suicide. Firstly, used games are a huge market and would probably back-fire resulting in lower over-all games sales. Secondly, who here borrows games from friends to try? A lot of people do. I know I do, and this feture would render the option defunct. It would also cancel out the rental market. MS are not that stupid…………
Sony doesn’t own the blu-ray tech. If MS wanted to use the blu-ray tech, they would have to pay a royalty fee to the BDA (which Sony is a part of, along with Samsung/LG and a few other companies).
oh ok. I wasn’t too sure.
@DMANK1LLA
Thanks!
For all you dumbass Xbots GROW UP!!! the PS3 is a stronger system than the Xbox it has more potential and it is way more durable. Though it is true the Xbox sold more sytems you have to take in to account how many of the systems are dead at the moment when compared to PS3 that were sold and are still active. The PS3 exclusives beat out the Xbox exclusives bye the ton. When I say exclusive I mean it is not on any other console other than 1 even including PC ex. The Witcher 2 is on PC but now on Xbox not PS3 that is not a XBOX exclusive ok. Microsoft has copied a lot of the features the PS3 has had since day 1 so SONY is more creative. I do not like the Xbox 360 at all also due to the fact i could get new games bootlegged for 5-10 dollars out in south america when i travel. that includes new games so yeah screw DVD format it is extremely old I believe only PC should use DVD due to the fact it would be impossible for every person to ditch there PC and get a new 1 with a new disk format i have a laptop VAIO with a bluray read and write drive but i know nobody with a laptop like that. I do accept 1 thing i will be getting on ship with microsoft when the new Xbox comes out. This is because the tech will finally be something i can accept and won’t fear losing my system to some stupid system fail because the machine can’t handle whats in its guts unlike the PS3 which i have had since 2009 and it has never had problems but my friends have all had 2 xbox already cause 1 always dies =(. So i will get all new platforms except for Nintendo that company i only liked when i was a kid the games like zelda now seem too damn strange to play. Its weird seeing a old ass dude playing kirby and mario jeez it freaks me out that they like kiddie games ewww…
oh and the preventions towards not accepting used games is not that if you use your game once it will be denied later that was the worst comment ive seen today, this concept would be maybe like A 1 time use pass that gives access to the whole game. Meaning if you buy a used disk you will have to go online and buy the copy digitally or something basically like the batman online pass except figure that pass also took away batman not just catwoman ok
Wait so, if MS uses bluray on their next console, wouldn’t Sony be paid for each xbox sold? Lol whut.