According to sources close to IGN, the manufacturing of the Next Xbox may already be well underway the Austin, Texas plant of Flextronics. For a bit of background information, this is the same company that presently assembles the Xbox 360 hardware, and was also a manufacturer of the original Xbox.
Codenamed Durango, it's speculated that this Next Xbox manufacturing may only be for development kits and not for the final consumer product.
You know what? I was almost starting to worry here. It was nearing the end of the week and we didn't have a new "next generation console" rumor to speculate over! Crisis adverted, eh?
Codenamed Durango, it's speculated that this Next Xbox manufacturing may only be for development kits and not for the final consumer product.
Prior to reaching the manufacturing stage, Flextronics created a new testing group separate from the rest of the company. This team was solely dedicated to comprehensive marketing, software, and hardware tests of the next Xbox. With that activity concluded, Flextronics started building the hardware -- but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll see the Durango soon.
The most likely case here is that new manufactured hardware would be development kits, consoles created specifically so game designers know what they’re working with. Microsoft said flat-out it wasn’t debuting a new console at E3, so rumors regarding new manufactured boxes probably wouldn’t stack up to a reveal.
The most likely case here is that new manufactured hardware would be development kits, consoles created specifically so game designers know what they’re working with. Microsoft said flat-out it wasn’t debuting a new console at E3, so rumors regarding new manufactured boxes probably wouldn’t stack up to a reveal.
You know what? I was almost starting to worry here. It was nearing the end of the week and we didn't have a new "next generation console" rumor to speculate over! Crisis adverted, eh?