Microsoft has once again spilled the beans on their upcoming plans for the next Xbox, which is operating under the codename Durango. According to a job posting for Microsoft, the publisher and software creator is looking for a Marketing Manager to help usher in a new age of Microsoft products and software that would include Office, Windows, and the next Xbox. (The listing itself has been altered to no longer include Xbox, but at one point it did mention Microsoft’s console brand)
Obviously this is all information that gamers would expect Microsoft to be planning for, but the most important part of the listing is the time frame. Microsoft lists 18 months as when this next phase should take place and be completed, suggesting that the Xbox 720 will be on store shelves before the end of 2013.
Earlier in the week, Microsoft’s Brian Hall, in talking a little bit about the future of Microsoft, let it slip that not only was the company working on new versions of Surface and the Windows Phone, but Xbox as well. Yet another claim that reiterates Xbox 720 is coming.
In the past, gamers had expected that after an E3 2013 reveal that Microsoft and Sony would announce their console’s launch dates to be Holiday 2014, but apparently Microsoft is hoping to get yet another head start, the same head start that Nintendo could care less about.
As expected Microsoft is vehemently denying Hall’s claims in regards to a new Xbox rolling out, stressing that the comments were made about future Xbox games and experiences being developed for new technology like Smart Glass. It’s almost as if Microsoft refuses to acknowledge the existence of a new console, even though plenty of information has already been released about it, including rumored pictures of the current phase of dev kits.
We’re currently on the precipice of something big – a new console generation – and rather than generate some genuine fan enthusiasm, publisher’s are trying to keep everything as tightly under wraps as possible. Rather than say a new Xbox is in the future, but that they aren’t prepared to reveal more about it, Microsoft is trying to twist comments by their own people into even more convoluted statements.
Will Microsoft be releasing the Xbox 720 by 2013′s end? What will the timeline be for next-gen console announcements?
Source: CVG, Microsoft Careers
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I feel like 2013 is too early. Personally, I’d rather see the PS4 and Xbox 720 release in 2014.
It’s stupid how Microsoft keeps denying that they’re working on the next Xbox. We’re not idiots; we know you guys are working on it. It’s like if Infinity Ward denied that they’re working on the next CoD after BO2.
I agree, I feel that this generation can hold out until 2014 with all the great games they keep pushing out.
Heck i think this generation (except for the wii) could just keep going for a few more years. Im not buying a new console, too many games i havent played as it is. Heck i still want that ps3
Yeah, there are tons of great games coming out this fall and next spring.
I’m thinking these are intentional games of leak and deny.
This is WAY too early. I mean there are so many games coming out this AND next year to even think about next-gen. This wont be a cheap buy either and with the economy the way it is (for USA anyway), the sales probably wont be the best. I’ll get this eventually but probably a year or two after its release.
You shouldn’t be buying any console in any economy before a year or two after its release. Why buy at the highest cost, with the most long term defects and least quantity and quality of games?
Its always nice to see what’s new when the nexts-gens come in. It doesn’t matter if it buggy to me, I just seeing what’s in store.
Why do we do anything we do lol? Because we are die hard fans of which ever console and developers we support and we put our faith (and money) into their products.