Xbox Surface – Video Game News, Reviews, Walkthroughs And Guides | GamingBolt https://gamingbolt.com Get a Bolt of Gaming Now! Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:13:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Xbox Surface: Initial Hardware Planning Stage Underway https://gamingbolt.com/xbox-surface-initial-hardware-planning-stage-underway https://gamingbolt.com/xbox-surface-initial-hardware-planning-stage-underway#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:03:28 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=120770 Before you start reading this post, here’s some advice: take this information with a grain of salt. Microsoft has been reportedly working on a mini Xbox, a  7 inch computer tablet known as Xbox Surface, according to a report by The Verge. Xbox Surface has now reached the initial hardware planning stage, says the report.

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According to the reports, the  Xbox Surface is being developed at Microsoft’s offices situated in Silicon Valley. In order to maintain secrecy Microsoft has  limited employee access to its Interactive Entertainment Business division.

The reason behind this is pretty obvious. Microsoft must have ramped up testing of the tablet and hence allowed other members of the team to probably develop games and apps for it.

But the question remains whether Xbox Surface will launch before or after the next generation Xbox console. Considering how Microsoft likes to maintain connectivity between it’s products, I won’t be surprised if the Xbox Surface will have a close compatibility with the Xbox 360 and perhaps with the next generation Xbox.

Let us know what you think in the comments below.

]]> https://gamingbolt.com/xbox-surface-initial-hardware-planning-stage-underway/feed 2 120770 Rumour: Next-Gen Xbox called ‘Surface’ Data Sheet leaked https://gamingbolt.com/rumour-next-gen-xbox-called-surface-data-sheet-leaked https://gamingbolt.com/rumour-next-gen-xbox-called-surface-data-sheet-leaked#respond Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:35:16 +0000 http://gamingbolt.com/?p=93576 Since everything is leaking anyway, fake or real, I figured I’ll post the one that at least makes sense. So apparently this is a leaked next-gen Xbox data sheet. Some of the stuff here is iffy, like 348 bit bus for the GPU (should be 384, but whatever). Take this with a pinch of salt, as usual.

According to the sheet, it will have 4 GB RAM, and a 10k RPM hard drive. It will also feature a tablet controller with 720p resolution supported. The GPU will have 1.4 GB GDDR5 memory along with DirectX 11.1 support.

The Optical media is Blu-Ray but won’t play movies. It’s said to be 50GB capacity. So there you go! Is this real? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

Check out the image below. Image courtesy of a Chinese site – TBUS.

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