When is microsoft announces xbox 720

Microsoft has announced Xbox sales figures at a D: Dive into Media conference, where it also spoke of the Xbox and its position at the centre of household entertainment ahead of a reported Xbox launch at E3 With more than 76 million Xbox consoles sold worldwide, the Xbox has now outsold the original Xbox three times over.

Over a third of Xbox consoles now have an Xbox Kinect sensor too, with over 24 million sold to date. The Xbox Live community has increased to 46 million users, a 15 per cent increase from last year, with an average 87 hours a month clocked by Xbox Live members in the US on their Xbox console showing a 10 per cent year-on-year increase. It seems that Mehdi might be right, as over 18 billion hours of entertainment were racked up in on Xbox consoles, with entertainment app usage growing 57 per cent year on year across the world.

This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. And if a publisher walks on stage and shows target footage of what it expects its next-gen game will look like, be proud of that too and note it at the bottom of the screen.

Gamers will appreciate the honesty. Guess what's old news? To everyone who said, "Those damn game consoles that double as entertainment hubs," go ahead and reward yourself with a three-day vacation to beautiful Cabo San Lucas! Or something. Look, the Xbox and PS3 nailed multimedia in the current generation, and for the next generation to truly shine, we're going to need something new. Plus, gamers are nothing if not an entitled bunch, so they're already taking for granted that next-gen will stream Netflix and Hulu, hook up to Facebook, have Web access, and so on.

Dedicating any time beyond a handful of sentences to the Xbox 's non-gaming related features is going to be wasted breath. And given Sony's strong PS4 showing, Microsoft can't afford to waste its words.

So here's an easy one, with a caveat. The best way for Microsoft to steal some momentum from the PS4 announcement is to do what Sony didn't: show off the goods. PS4 mock-ups notwithstanding, we still have no idea what Sony's next console will look like, and Microsoft can easily capitalize on that omission by showing off--or, gasp, letting folks touch--the Xbox Unless, of course, Sony's playing this one clever. Let's say Microsoft announces the Xbox on March 26, giving folks the full monty in terms of console design, controller, and games.

On March 27, all Sony has to do to swing the conversation back to the PS4 is show off its console. Not a bad ace to have up its sleeve. So maybe Microsoft will want to reserve it's own console reveal until after we know what the PS4 looks like Fiscal irresponsibility is a thing that's just going to be happening this holiday.

Between the PS4 and its games and accessories and the Xbox and its games and accessories, that's an absolute fact. However, just because we're resigned to doing dumb things with money doesn't mean we can't start clearing up our credit cards now. And to do that, we really need to know a if the Xbox is indeed hitting in , and b how much the thing will cost.

Sony didn't help us out at all in this regard, offering nary a peep on the cost of what could be a pricey piece of hardware.

It also floated a nebulous holiday , which could mean anything from October 1 to December 31 our money's on early November. For Microsoft to one-up Sony in this regard, all they've got to do is give us hard details--an end point that we can latch onto and really get excited about.

Sony's online efforts were pitiful early this generation, but over the years it has built up the PlayStation Network into a true competitor to Xbox Live--and that's without factoring in the great benefits of PlayStation Plus.

Microsoft has added some new features to its online system, but has spent the last few years revamping the UI and adding advertisements instead of expanding its lead. With Sony doubling-down on streaming and a digital storefront, Microsoft has to respond. If we were to guess, that game will come from Black Tusk Studios. Formed way back in February and staffed largely by EA alums, Black Tusk Studios has explicitly stated that it's working on a new IP that they called "the next Halo.

Sony spent the first half of its presentation demonstrating the power of its system with actual software. Beautiful PS4 games like Knack and Killzone: Shadow Fall were shown off, making a damn good case for the need for a new generation of hardware. But then it got into showing tech demos, and excited old men, and weird Move dance parties, and suddenly it lost focus. Microsoft needs to avoid that. It needs to focus not on speculative demo reels, and technical "what if" displays, but on actual software we'll be able to buy.

Make that the focus, and gamers will see the difference; Xbox will be an upcoming console with games, and PlayStation will be an upcoming console with promises. Tech demos do have a place, though. We wouldn't be against seeing a next-gen reel of what a new Halo could look like, and we certainly wouldn't be opposed to getting a glimpse into the console's future software. Rendered "target footage" is harmless, under one very important condition: it's labeled as such. Sony missed the mark on this, and we're still not sure what was real and what wasn't.

Microsoft needs to be super transparent about this. If it's showing off real-time footage be proud and say it! Be open about it! And if a publisher walks on stage and shows target footage of what it expects its next-gen game will look like, be proud of that too and note it at the bottom of the screen. Gamers will appreciate the honesty. Guess what's old news? To everyone who said, "Those damn game consoles that double as entertainment hubs," go ahead and reward yourself with a three-day vacation to beautiful Cabo San Lucas!

Or something. Look, the Xbox and PS3 nailed multimedia in the current generation, and for the next generation to truly shine, we're going to need something new. Plus, gamers are nothing if not an entitled bunch, so they're already taking for granted that next-gen will stream Netflix and Hulu, hook up to Facebook, have Web access, and so on. Dedicating any time beyond a handful of sentences to the Xbox 's non-gaming related features is going to be wasted breath.

And given Sony's strong PS4 showing, Microsoft can't afford to waste its words. So here's an easy one, with a caveat. The best way for Microsoft to steal some momentum from the PS4 announcement is to do what Sony didn't: show off the goods.