and the next xbox is called

[old man]

I've got an xbox one I'll sell you guys. It even comes with Halo.

[MrSega]

Xbox One's new used game policy is REALLY bizzare.

http://kotaku.com/you-will-be-able-t...cros-509140825

[tz101]

MS' naming conventions have never made sense.

Win3.1
Win95
Win98
WinME
WinXP
WinVista
Win7
Win8

See a pattern there? Neither do I.

[bgpjr]

95 through ME is windows 4, then so on....

[TmEE]

Vista and 7 are 6.0 and 6.1...

[Segadream]

Don't see anything wrong there they just started counting better I guess. their up to 8 and I counted 8 on your list.

[Thierry Henry]

The voice commands on the new Xbox could be handy..

"Xbox, turn on PS4"

[sheath]

I recall a big deal being made when the AMD Phenom 6 cores were released, and tech sites talked about getting 1 billion transistors for a decent price. I would guess that because this thing's probably using an APU that it is a combination of CPU/GPU to get that number.

Also, I buy too many used games... account locking games are a deal breaker here.

Generally speaking the more the transistors the better I'm sure, I just don't know how to compare it to my budget PC. The PS4 compares rather poorly. Yeah, account locked games is a deal breaker for me but I was going to be done with new consoles anyway I'm going to try to finish archiving a bunch of videos from older consoles as I can and sell my stuff off before it all starts rotting. I hate doing cap replacements.

Way back when Sony first entered the market everybody said they didn't want a game console they wanted a set top box that ruled the living room. Well, here we are and everybody's doing it. I expect to have a game in my hand that I put in a console that I can play whenever or wherever I want. But just like when the industry transitioned over from Action-Arcade centric gaming to tutorial based story Zelda/Halo/COD clones I am a minority and statistically don't matter.

[gamevet]

5 billion transistors, what the heck does that mean? I have an FX 8150 and have no idea how many transistors it has. I remember counting transistors in the pre-Pentium 4 era but haven't even seen it in the specs of the latest processors. Are they including the GPU and CPU in that "spec"?

The Bulldozer CPU has 1.2 billion transistors, compared to 1.4 billion for an Ivy Bridge CPU. The PS4 and Xbox One supposedly have AMD APUs with the CPU and GPU on one chip.

[Thunderblaze16]

The voice commands on the new Xbox could be handy..

"Xbox, turn on PS4"

"I'm afraid I can't allow that Dave".

[tz101]

Don't see anything wrong there they just started counting better I guess. their up to 8 and I counted 8 on your list.

I forgot a few. The real list looks like this.

Win3.1
Win95
MS Bob
Win98
WinNT
WinME
Win2000
WinXP
WinVista
Win7
Win8

[gamevet]

"I'm afraid I can't allow that Dave".

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Thunderblaze16 again."

[sheath]

The Bulldozer CPU has 1.2 billion transistors, compared to 1.4 billion for an Ivy Bridge CPU. The PS4 and Xbox One supposedly have AMD APUs with the CPU and GPU on one chip.

Yeah, I just found this at engadget. Looks like both Sony and Microsoft basically made the same system with different types of RAM to me. I'm supposing this "Jaguar" design means that it is an Ivy bridge with built in APUs and GPU. Still, these things had better cost no more than $299, they are hardly any kind of leap over current tech aside from the condensed chip designs. It would have been interesting if at lest one of the megacorps took a risk on cutting edge tech.

[gamevet]

Yeah, I just found this at engadget. Looks like both Sony and Microsoft basically made the same system with different types of RAM to me. I'm supposing this "Jaguar" design means that it is an Ivy bridge with built in APUs and GPU. Still, these things had better cost no more than $299, they are hardly any kind of leap over current tech aside from the condensed chip designs. It would have been interesting if at lest one of the megacorps took a risk on cutting edge tech.

Ivy Bridge is part of Intel's 3rd generation i5 and i7 processors. They use a 22 nm architecture, while their second gen chip (Sandy Bridge) was 32 nm. The Bulldozer (8150) uses 32 nm architecture.

Sony and MS are using AMD's APU design for their upcoming consoles.

[sheath]

Ivy Bridge is part of Intel's 3rd generation i5 and i7 processors. They use a 22 nm architecture, while their second gen chip (Sandy Bridge) was 32 nm. The Bulldozer (8150) uses 32 nm architecture.

Sony and MS are using AMD's APU design for their upcoming consoles.

Ah, yeah, I thought Ivy bridge sounded like Intel. Sorry, doing a few things at once here. Sucks that the new processors preclude backward compatibility but I think that was expected with all of the DLC the current gen has been leading for.