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The rumors are going around saying Microsoft will annonce their Xbox 720 sometime in April. So Far news is vague about when exactly when the console will drop the news right now is that it should drop sometime around the holiday season. Now lets get to the new news surrounding the console. Now according to insiders who had hands on time with protoype said the console may ship without Blu-ray. Now we know the days of Dvd’s maybe over soon and if the console does’nt equiped with Blu Ray is it worth buying, that could be a major drawback in buying the console.Now according to Game radar writer Tom Magrino went so far as to say that “there is a zero percent chance that the next Xbox will ship without a Blu-ray player,” which he described as “the future of physical media.” After the break find out what other rumors are brewing with the Xbox 720.

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While no confirmation on an announcement date, E3 will be “Party Central” in the Xbox booth
The new ‘720′ will have 3x the processing speed of the current 360
No hard release date but it looks like Holiday 2013
2 launch versions. 320 GB Arcade / 500 GB Pro. Exact pricing is unknown
1 TB HDD available as a separate purchase
It will not include Blu-Ray
No picture was available as prototype consoles are packaged in a 360 slim case to “avoid complications” about the design until announcement
Tech Specs: AMD eight-core x64 1.6GHz CPU, Direct3d 11.x 800MHz GPU, and 8GB of DDR3 RAM
Xbox Smartglass is still a feature in use
No word on Kinect 2.0
No word on “Immersive” technology being implemented