Has the Cell peaked? If no, would it work for next gen? - More questions inside

[VGKing]

Soleron said:

VGKing said:

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Sounds totally credible.(If this sounds sarcastic, it's not.)
So where would the next Xbox be against the PS4 right now? We're expect final dev kits to be delivered by summer 2013.

From what I understand from that last article, they were having trouble creating dev kits right? So it looks like they'l miss their intended September 2013 plans.
Could they still make holidays though? Or does that push it into 2014?

There's been no update to that article. I don't know.

Lack of dev kits wouldn't necessarily stop a launch. I do think the actual availability of next-gen games will take longer than expected though. Also MS can afford to eat big losses or risk mass hardware failures to gain time against the competition, since they care about supporting the Windows ecosystem rather than Xboxes being profitable in themselves.

I don't trust this guy's knowledge 100% but I do trust that he has actual sources and he's telling the truth as to the information he gets from them. Which is all one can ask from a rumour journalist.

1. You need dev kits to make next-gen games. Would be pretty stupid to launch a console with no games.
2. No, they can't. Well...technically they can but its not something they would do on purpose. It would hurt the Xbox brand and cost them loads of money.