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Its Monday! And what better way to start the week than to reveal some insider report claiming the announcement of the next-gen Xbox (more popularly known as Xbox 720) will be veiled by Microsoft as early as CES 2012?

Next-generation Xbox Announcement on January 2012?

Just to be more specific, this news came from a French-based site in which its source came from “very close”individuals who are linked with the Redmonian company. The bomb? Aside from its expected partial announcement on the upcoming Consumer Electronic show happening on January 10-12, Xboxygen did confirm the new xbox will use a hexa-core type of CPU with 2GB DDR3 Memory and a prototype dual-GPU from AMD.

The interesting part here is, it’s said the company has already been working on this project ever since 2005 which was the same year when Xbox 360 had its first launch. This news is connected with last week’s report that “Loop” division will handle Xbox 720’s software parts while a division called “Infinity” will be tasked for its hardware. As reiterated by the site, MS will only reveal tidbits of the new console this CES and will tackle more about its hardware parts – a move similar with Nintendo’s Wii U announcement earlier this year.

Recap

If you’ve been following the news for Xbox’s next-gen kin, you can see there are two stories behind it. One is this console going to be announced as early as next year but will only have its shipping date by the end of 2012. Its specifications will be high-end claimed to be powered by an ARM CPU (processor commonly used for netbooks and tablets) or a six-core processor along with added support for Windows 9.

The other story was the one we heard earlier this year which claims there’ll be no Xbox hardware upgrade until we hit2015 which is really absurd considering some game developers are already showing their opinions why the old Xbox may not be able to support their future titles soon.

Wrap-up

As the French site hinted, in case Microsoft did really reveal any clues for Xbox’s next hardware update on CES, this will put the pressure on the side of Sony to reveal something soon for its customers. If you’ll analyze Xbox 720′s rumored specs, a six-core CPU may be more powerful than any ARM processor today. Actually, its first models are now out for desktop courtesy of Intel. However, the interesting tidbit was the one given for its GPU which will be branded by AMD along with a “dual” sauce – perhaps, its build will be an upgraded version of AMD Trinity.

Likewise, everything we have for today are still speculations and we expect there’ll be some discrepancy with the specs we’re hearing today with the unit’s actual innards when it gets a proper launch in the near future. Remember what happened to Wii 2 a.k.a Project Cafe?

Now just pack in Kinect or Kinect2 and I'll be a happy gamer.

Interesting. I'd like to see at least one company stepping away from IBM's PowerPC architecture.

If all three use the same architechture (more or less), it will be easier to support multiplatform development though. Which I'm pretty sure is what every company in the gaming space wants right now.

Well, the "dual-GPU" bit is new.

If that's true, I can't wait for the next gen...to get cheap.

One thing I'm fairly certain of is that, unless it is an optional add-on for people who want 3D display or higher resolution (or what not), no console manufacturer will release a system with 2 GPUs. It would (likely) be too expensive, use too much energy (and run too hot), and would (likely) increase the failure rate of the system.

Two GPUs could refer to the model Nvidia and AMD/ATI have used for some time to create some highend cards, where they stick two GPUs on one graphics card for increased performance.

Cant wait to see those dual ADM 6450s burn some rubber :)

I know, and these cards are less reliable, are far more expensive, use far more energy, and run far hotter than their single chip counterparts ...