Huh, I have no idea what he's talking about. We haven't announced any successor to the 360, so any employee talking about how awesome this theoretical product is is inviting career repercussions.
I really wish people would stop making this "more Apple-like" comparison. Integration, an ecosystem, etc, that's how Microsoft dominated while everything else kept going fragmented, forked, uncohesive, open. Perhaps the majority is just too young to remember these dark ages and all they know is Apple? But all Microsoft's efforts were broken up with the constant legislation, court rulings, lawyer meanderings, and general public pushback at every turn (and placing blame squarely on Ballmer is also irksome in lieu of this but that's another story). Notice how as soon as the oversight committee vacated, all the other companies have been free to create those intergrated experiences unabated over the years, and now others especially Apple are rolling in money, that Microsoft goes back to creating the ecosystems that put them on the map in the first place.
It's not "apple-like", google-like, or any of that when it's a page out of Microsoft's playbook in the first place.
So yes, expect durango, windows phone, windows 8, etc to all play nice together in 2013. But not too nice or we'll need Durango-N in 2014 to languish amongst the other consoles. With ballot dashboard boot screen, and a Durango Essentials Pack to accept controllers since it ships without physical controllers nor the code to accept such an input device. Meanwhile the press, web, and general public blast it for being what the fragmentation they shouted for, while coveting Pippin 2 which is Durango sans meddling, but more expensive with that logo.
Carry on.
What of Apple's precisely would be out of MS's playbook, today?
So a third of the RAM is reserved for non-gaming OS tasks? Win 8 can run in 512 MBs. MS is expecting the best part of 1.5 GBs of applications running on XB3 in the background of games?
I really wish people would stop making this "more Apple-like" comparison. Integration, an ecosystem, etc, that's how Microsoft dominated while everything else kept going fragmented, forked, uncohesive, open. Perhaps the majority is just too young to remember these dark ages and all they know is Apple? But all Microsoft's efforts were broken up with the constant legislation, court rulings, lawyer meanderings, and general public pushback at every turn (and placing blame squarely on Ballmer is also irksome in lieu of this but that's another story). Notice how as soon as the oversight committee vacated, all the other companies have been free to create those intergrated experiences unabated over the years, and now others especially Apple are rolling in money, that Microsoft goes back to creating the ecosystems that put them on the map in the first place.
It's not "apple-like", google-like, or any of that when it's a page out of Microsoft's playbook in the first place.
So yes, expect durango, windows phone, windows 8, etc to all play nice together in 2013. But not too nice or we'll need Durango-N in 2014 to languish amongst the other consoles. With ballot dashboard boot screen, and a Durango Essentials Pack to accept controllers since it ships without physical controllers nor the code to accept such an input device. Meanwhile the press, web, and general public blast it for being what the fragmentation they shouted for, while coveting Pippin 2 which is Durango sans meddling, but more expensive with that logo.
Carry on.
There are many way to play that games
I'll try based on an "off the radar possibility", a NV only system.
