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Microsoft sold 8.2 million Xbox 360 consoles during the last three months of 2011.

Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, which includes its gaming business, posted revenue of $4.24bn (£2.73bn) for its financial second quarter, a 15 per cent increase on $3.69bn (£2.38bn) in the same period the year before. Woo! Jump in!

Overall the company posted net profits of $6.624bn (£4.276bn), which hardly buys you anything these days, compared to $6.634bn (£4.282bn) in its second quarter results in 2010.

Microsoft revealed at CES earlier this month that it has now sold 66 million Xbox 360s worldwide, with 40 million people connecting to Xbox Live since the service launched.

Kam idomu kiek tu su%$%$£iktu konsoliu kompanijos pardave? Kam ta bereikalinga sausa informacija? Atsibodo jau skaityt kiek konsoliu pardave Nintendo kiek konsoliu pardave Microsoft ir t.t. kokia cia naujiena? Cia tik sausa informacija pateiki. Niekam neidomia statistika.

 

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Nesuprantu dar padoriu zaidimu ant kinect neisleido jau nori kinect 2 isleist ...

Rumor: Microsoft Dropping Microsoft Points System

Xbox 360 owners have been confused and annoyed by the Microsoft Points currency setup since the system launched -- or at least I have. If a new rumor is to be believed, though, this frustrating extra bit of calculation for every Xbox Live purchase may be going away very soon.

 

Inside Mobile Apps reports that the Microsoft Points system will cease to exist by the end of 2012 according to "a source with knowledge of the company's decision." Supposedly the system will be replaced with the sane alternative of using actual cash transactions based on the region the console is set to.

 

We'll update this story if we're able to hear anything solid from Microsoft or another source. Personally speaking, though, this is one Xbox Live change I would happily get behind.

 

Microsoft has set up two new Kinect-focused development studios, judging by a set of recruitment ads.

As spotted on NeoGAF, Microsoft's careers page lists an opening at something called LEAP. It wants developers who, ideally, can boast "experience with Kinect or other motion control technologies".

"We're the people that developed Kinect and profoundly changed the way people interact with technology. Now our incubation team is ready to change the world again, but we need your help!" notes the blurb.

Another ad on the site for an HR manager mentions Platform Next Studios, which is apparently responsible for "pioneering experiences on Kinect".

There's no word on exactly what either studio is working on. Both are based in the platform holder's Redmond HQ, outside Seattle.

A Eurogamer report last November suggested that a second, more powerful iteration of Microsoft's motion control tech is currently in the works.

Xbox 720 Chipset "in Production"

The chipset for a next generation Xbox console has been in production since last month, and will go into full production by the end of the year, according to technology news reports.

 

Tech site Fudzilla states, "Recent speculation that the new main System on a Chip (SoC) for the Next Xbox began production is apparently accurate; the SoC did indeed start production in late December of 2011. Sources tell us that the code name for the chip is Oban, and it is being produced by both IBM and Global Foundries for Microsoft."

 

The report goes on to claim that, "the power behind the next Xbox will be a PowerPC CPU that is married to an ATI Southern Islands GPU, or modified 7000 series." It adds that the console is unlikely to ship at the end of 2012, with full production gearing in December of this year.

 

"This first run of these 32nm Oban chips will be destined for developer consoles, so any hope for a holiday console release in 2012 seems unrealistic, according to our sources, but an announcement perhaps before the end of the year might be possible. It would seem Microsoft's strategy of getting it in 2013 is all but assured. We do think that the chips will be in production by the end of the year for consoles destined to be sold in 2013, which seems to agree with what others are saying."

 

Additionally, tech site SemiAccurate offers similar speculation on a production timeline, as well as analysis of the various rumors flying around.

 

We've already wrangled up everything we've heard so far in a recent Xbox 720 round-up, and this new information appears to support Michael Pachter's statement that "2012 launch rumors are silly" for Xbox 720.

 

The graphics card (GPU) inside the next Xbox will be "akin to" the £50 Radeon HD 6670, a new report has suggested.

IGN heard from "sources close to the project" that the GPU will provide performance six times greater than Xbox 360, and 20 per cent greater than Wii U.

A Radeon HD 6670 card supports DirectX 11, multi-display output, 3D and 1080p.

Development kits matching the final system configuration of the next Xbox will be sent out in August, apparently. And mass production of the Radeon HD 6670-based GPU should begin by the end of 2012.

The new console itself will ship to shops in late October or early November, IGN wrote.

The release date and dev kit dates we've heard before. However, this is the most specific a report has been about the graphics card inside the next Xbox.

We heard late last year that Microsoft planned two versions of its next Xbox. Both will bundle Kinect, although one machine will be a cheap, "pared down" set-top box; the other a "more fully featured", typical new console for hardcore gamers.

Will this Radeon HD 6670-like GPU be fitted inside both models?

Siaip manau silpnoka vga, jei tiketi gandais. Siuo metu ji niekuo neypatinga, ka jau kalbeti jei tikrai pasirodys 2013 paskutiniame ketvirtyje. Turint omeny kad visgi tai bus nextgen konsole, skirta tarnauti bent jau ~5 metus.

Kazkaip dar abejoju. Microsoft sako kad HALO 4 (kuris iseis siu metu pabaigoje) but X360 ekskliuzyvas. Kazkaip dar iskart po tokio projekto keista butu tiketis naujo xbox.

Microsoft's next home console will use Blu-ray discs, catching up with Sony's PlayStation 3, according to Kotaku sources.

The Xbox 360 currently has a DVD drive - meaning a 9GB limit per disc, compared to Blu-ray's 50GB capacity.

The site's sources also claimed that Microsoft is planning on including technology in the new machine that will somehow combat used games, though didn't provide specifics on exactly how that will work.

You might like to take that one with a pinch of salt. Retailers would be up in arms if true, as might budget-minded gamers.

As per tradition, Microsoft declined to comment on rumour and speculation.

Kotaku's report also mentioned that the system will ship with a refined version of the Kinect peripheral - as reported by Eurogamer last November.

Earlier this week, a separate report emerged claiming that Microsoft's new console is being built around a Radeon HD 6670-like GPU and will be roughly six times more powerful than the Xbox 360.

Ech kiek daug spekuliaciju... manau dar ju bus daug iki oficialaus announcmento.

Ech kiek daug spekuliaciju... manau dar ju bus daug iki oficialaus announcmento.

 

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