RUMOR: Next Xbox to be “Forward Compatible”
- Scribbled on October 15th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Hardware Peripherals, Microsoft Xbox 360, Rumor Mill
Xbox Evolved is reporting that the Xbox 720 (or whatever Microsoft ends up calling it) will be not only be backward compatible, but “forward compatible”. That is, software released now for the Xbox 360 will not only look even better on the Xbox 720, but will take advantage of the new specs, sort of like what Crysis does when you upgrade your PC.
This isn’t a side effect of textures being cleaner and upscaled resolution, this is a new animal completely. Imagine playing Gears of War 3 on your Xbox 360 it looks and plays good right? Well imagine that the year after it comes out you go out to buy the next Xbox and it looks even better, it plays even better. Features in the new controller are utilized with the game, the graphics do not only look sharper, but the draw distance is better, the speed is better, framerate, and there are even new features, perhaps even levels via DLC for the game on the third-generation Xbox. GoW3 is of course an example of what this could mean, past the forward-compatibility information, Xbox Evolved has not been given any other information about the next generation of Xbox.
Xbox Evolved says that the specs of the next Xbox are being finalized, so that Microsoft can send the new specs to developers so they can make their 360 games to be better when popped into a 720.
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