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hey guys this is Austin and today new video going over what to expect on the new Xbox 720 now the current Xbox 360 is actually coming up on 7 years old this year and in videogame terms that's pretty much an eternity so today we're going to take a look at what you expect with the next-generation Xbox as with any major console release there have been leaks and the Xbox has definitely had its share so one of the biggest ones was a couple months ago when a 56 page document leaked which went over the entire road map of the Xbox 720 now of course some of this probably isn't actually going to happen as this was done about two years ago or so so it was leaked just recently but it was probably a little bit of an older roadmap there's definitely some really interesting things in it some of the more important things that were included in this document where the specs so the current Xbox 360 has a triple core processor half a gigabyte of RAM and a DVD Drive fast-forward to the Xbox 720 and we're looking at more like a six or eight core CPU four gigabytes of RAM and a blu-ray drive also slated is backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games as well as a brand new Kinect 2 now all this is fairly straightforward but there's not a lot of details of course this is a couple years ago while they were still in the planning stages however that's not all so a couple weeks ago there was a posting on a forum of someone trying to sell on Xbox 720 dev kit for $10,000 the guy posted a few pictures of it and for the most part it looked pretty generic so of course you can see a few things such as Durango which is the Xbox 720 codename but overall it looks pretty fake but when these pictures were shown to some developers who would have access to the Xbox 720 they all said yes this is actually what we're using right now Don I'm assuming this is real and for the most part it seems pretty legit we can see that Microsoft has made several changes from the planning stages which was the first thing we saw to the actual dev kits they're shipping to developers for starters it has a gigabytes of RAM which lines up perfectly as since this is a debit it's not actually the final hardware and the developers who are making games on it are going to need a little bit of extra room for their various tools it also sports an 8 core Intel CPU as well as an Nvidia graphics card unfortunately we don't have the exact specs here so we don't know if it's going to be based on a next-generation chip maybe the current generation of PC parts or more than likely than the last generation however regardless it definitely should be capable of 1080p gaming overall though the hardware seems very similar to a gaming PC now this isn't all that surprising now the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 both to use totally custom parts if you look at something like the Vita it uses fairly standard stuff and it looks like that the Xbox and the next PlayStation will both do that as well as it's very very expensive to create custom CPUs and graphics cards and all that kind of stuff where they can just buy stuff right off the shelf my best bet would be that the Xbox 720 will be on sale late next year probably around the holidays as far as price one likely around three hundred dollars or so I don't think that we're going to see any more of the you know the $700 and $600 launch prices I think that Microsoft Sony and Nintendo they've all kind of figured out that that really doesn't work anymore actually it never worked anyway I'm curious to know what do you guys think of the Xbox 720 or xbox eight or xbox next or whatever they decide to call it definitely be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below anyway if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos on the new Xbox definitely be sure to subscribe