Rumor: Next Xbox Codenamed ‘Loop’, Running On Windows 9.

I’ve said it before, but I love the lifespan of his console generation. No new hardware to buy! Titles upon titles. It’s been a fruitful five years. Yet, nothing gold can stay. We have ourselves some Next Xbox rumors afoot.

Kotaku:

Insider blog  MS nerd, which has been right on a few things coming out of Microsoft HQ from time to time, reckons it has some info on the next Xbox console.

Currently codenamed “Loop”, the site says the console will have a single main processor that’s joined by “assistive cores” for “graphics, AI, physics, sound, networking, encryption and sensors”.

To be both smaller and cheaper than the Xbox 360 (it’s not specified whether it’ll be cheaper than the 360 is  now  or cheaper than it was at launch), it will also apparently run on a modified version of Windows 9. The console will, according to the site, be designed as a joint venture between Microsoft and “two partners based on the ARM architecture”.

All of which sounds interesting. And, with the next Xbox not due for at least another year or three, completely unverified and liable to change (if it’s true in the first place!).

My (gaming) body is ready.