Next Gen xbox - 2015-2016

[orderoftheflame]

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Don't get me wrong, I agree with most your points. The sooner we can move on and completely drop all use of DX9 the better.

However, it's clearly not happening. Despite any modern game requiring the grunt of a modern DX10+ card, DX9 is still being supported in games now, I can only see that trend continuing, regardless of how small the remaining number of people using DX9 is, or how simple it would be for them to upgrade.

You've summed up the point I'm trying to get across pretty well in this sentence:

There are only a handful of titles that are Dx10/11 only and will be a few more in the coming year.

There's no reason for developers to drop DX9 when they're already using engines that support it, when the next iteration of big engines comes round. I'm sure that developers will be ditching DX9, but not until then.

 

[Mr Krugga]

I'm thinking now, it's quite easy to deduce that the new Xbox will be coming out shortly after Windows 8 or with the release of the new API.

There hasn't been too many changes to the hardware to warrant the upgrade just yet so I imagine 2013-2015 is the possible timeframe for the release of the new consoles.

I'm pretty sure both Microsoft and Sony are working hard on them at the moment and neither of them will want to be late to the party so we can expect both consoles to come out around the same time.

If Windows 8 doesn't feature DirectX 12 when it comes out, say Q4 of 2012, it will either be introduced in a Service Pack some time in Q4 '13/Q2 '14, or with the new Windows in 2015.

The latter assumption would suggest that the new consoles could be coming out that late although a 10 years old development cycle seems a bit odd in this dynamic industry. I think new consoles should be timed for a release within the next year and a half or they might start to struggle against their largest rival, Nintendo.

I'm trying to find out if there are any rumours of the next generation graphics cards to implement DirectX 12. If they don't, it's possible that the new DirectX won't be implemented until 2013/14.

 

[opethdisciple]

I dont see the use of DX9 as a problem. Look at the Witcher 2, looks great.

The problem is the fact that lots of games are being designed with the consoles are the primary and pc as a secondary market.

Which means us with our 2500k's and GTX 580's are not seeing our hardware getting utilised, tested and getting our money's worth!