Microsoft has allegedly brought on board a designer to work with their Interactive Entertainment Business division to work on new user experiences and hardware with a 2015 time horizon. Â Ben Peterson posted a screenshot of a confidential project that he is working on.
While the shots that were posted where something more along the lines of a “guess what this is” puzzle, it is dated for March 2011, so it very well could be the early work ups of a new console design. Â As for the planned date for the new console. Â A 2015 release would put the Xbox 360 at ten years. Â A nice round number to base future generations of consoles around.
A 2015 time frame would go along with what Sony has been claiming as far as next generation consoles are concerned. Â This would give the company’s ample time for research and development, protyping a new system, producing the console, and of course..marketing it. Â Hopefully, they learn their lesson for the next generation and make a console that has more than a two year life span before imploding on itself.
