Next Xbox console is a "hot, compelling device", says GameStop boss
“We’ve been spending a lot of time with Microsoft, but we have to let them take the lead on this, but it will be a very hot, compelling device,” he said.
“They are doing some really cool stuff, and I’m eager to hear them start their announcements because I think the world is going to stand up and take notice.”
As online vendors and digital sales eat into the traditional retail market, hardware remains something bricks-and-mortar can rely on. The last two hardware launches – 3DS and Vita – have been somewhat disappointing for retailers, but Raines said next-gen consoles won’t follow this trend, as many naysayers have predicted.
“I was talking to one of our founders, Dan DeMatteo, and he was telling me every console cycle you get people who will say ‘there will never be another console,’ or ‘what else can the consoles do?’ And we just believe it’s a cycle and we just haven’t had a new product in so long,” he said.
“But we certainly don’t believe that the new consoles won’t be as exciting. There’s a lot of demand for PS4, and I think there will be for the next Xbox as well, once it’s announced.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Raines said he doesn’t expect digital to ever fully replace digital, and that GameStop’s in-store digital content sales strategy is working. He wouldn’t committ to the question of whether next-gen games will be priced above the traditional $60 US RRP, but did say he thinks publishers would like it.
Nobody knows when Microsoft will break cover on the next Xbox console, which is codenamed Durango and nicknamed Xbox 720. Rumours put the console down as having similar if slightly less grunty specs to the PlayStation 4, but with dedicated hardware modules for various processing tasks. More wild talk speaks of always-on Internet, mandatory installs, and an obligatory Kinect, but a fairly bogstandard controller. Best guesses put the reveal before E3 2013.
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SODJEPosted:
Bulb I have both the XBOX 360 and PS3 but this time round I think I will be getting the PS4 first for a change, although I will get the XBOX when it comes down in orice.
You parents must be rich
SODJEPosted:
AGR Can't wait for this to come out. Hope it comes out before the PS4
I hope it takes longer to come out, its going to be too much money!
SakePosted:
sweet i cant wait for it to come out! will be a while though till i can actually afford to buy it
XKSR95Posted:
UPPERECHELON1 I thought e3 was in July, but I was happily surprised to find out it was in the beginning of June, about 1 month to go, I hope that once its revealed it quiets down all this hype with the ps4
I think you're forgetting a month, there's 2 months until June dude :P
UPPERECHELON1Posted:
I thought e3 was in July, but I was happily surprised to find out it was in the beginning of June, about 1 month to go, I hope that once its revealed it quiets down all this hype with the ps4
DLTPosted:
IowayXxNovaDragonXx I really hope they call it the 720. Durango and anything else would be stupid. Xbox 720 sounds pretty bad*ss.
I don't mind the name just how it performs
Same they could call it something completely unrelated to Xbox it wouldn't stop me buying it and calling it an Xbox.
Zer0Posted:
It will be a very hot n popular device, o really now cuz i thought people were gona be like : a new xbox ahh no big deal i dont care
Since when did it apper not to be
Since when did it apper not to be
DrRagefacePosted:
SHSXxNovaDragonXx I really hope they call it the 720. Durango and anything else would be stupid. Xbox 720 sounds pretty bad*ss.
They won't, it may be 720 but it won't be durango, just like kinect was called project natal before it was kinect, just code names so they don't 100% confirm its a new console
The next Xbox will be called Xbox:Infinity (Xbox8). Just wait, it'll happen.
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