UPDATE! vgleaks: Microsoft Xbox Roadmap (2013) - possible bc, online not required, used games allowed

[hinch]

drkohler said:

hinch said:

Xbox mini as a set top box for people who want to stream stuff and play some games on the side and the Next box as a more gaming orientated platform.

Set top boxes need memory.. Lot's of memory. Every set top box in shops here has at least a 500G harddrive and/or a writeable medium.
So basically MS is going to build something that was talked here 1-2 years ago. It was a thread about Sony patenting something along the line of "A hw device that attaches to a console and adds sw compatibility". What makes people think that MS suddenly invented the wheel? I'm pretty sure Sony could build such an addon for the PS4 that contains a PS3 SoC, it they wanted...

Err it won't need a HDD to function as one. Plus, who's to say you can't plug in an external HDD. Also, adding more memory to the Mini will not be much of a problem since GDDR3 RAM is probably quite cheap now.