Microsoft XBOX Surface Console Specs Leaked

Rumored XBOX Surface

Rumored XBOX Surface

Last month, Microsoft confirmed that more than 70 million XBOX 360 consoles had been sold worldwide. Recently a specification document leaked on the Internet and hints an upcoming XBOX console: the XBOX Surface.

Specification document of XBOX Surface

From the photos above, we know there are two parts of hardware for the console: tablet and stationary. The tablet computing device has a 7.0'' multi-touch LED display in 1280*720 pixels resolution. This device supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a regular-sized SD card slot. It's also equipped with a rechargeable battery, supports up to 7hours of usage.

The XBOX Surface's tablet has only 288MB of RAM, which is really low compared to other tablets in the market. So we believe that the tablet may probably be a wireless screen or controller of the console, just like Wii U's GamePad.

As to the stationary device, it has  two IBM POWER7 SCMs with 6 active cores per SCM, 5GB of system memory, a custom GPU from AMD and a 250GB 2.5″ 10K RPM hard disk. Storage expansion via USB drives is also available.

The stationary device supports up to 4 wireless game controllers, 4 USB 3.0 ports, component and HDMI TV-outs, optical S/PDIFF and an Ethernet port.

Moreover, there is another document which was leaked 5 months ago. Specifications in this older file may have some differences from the new one. It also shows the logos of AMD, IBM and Texas Instruments, probably means some of the components or chips are made by these manufacturers.

An older specification document of XBOX Surface

There's no official comment about the XBOX Surface from Microsoft. Perhaps it's still early for Microsoft to announce it. We'll wait for the announcement and bring you more further information. Just stay tuned.

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Rumor: Nintendo Will Release Wii U in November?

Nintendo Wii U

A user from Gamespot recently uploaded a video about Nintendo's next generation game console: the Wii U. We get information that the console has appeared on the pre-order list on Amazon, Blockbuster and Overstock. It's said the release day will be November 11st and 3 different Wii U SKUs ($250,$300 and $350) are available. We have no details currently about what exactly included in the SKUs, but they're believed to be new popular games or extra game controllers.

Wii U GamePad

Wii U Pro Controller

As the successor of Wii, the Wii U owns some special new features. It's equipped with a new controller named Wii U GamePad, looks like a touchscreen tablet. Besides the Wii U GamePad, the second controller named Pro Controller was released at the E3 2012 expo. The Pro Controller has more traditional design than the former one. It's produced to attract "hardcore" users in order to win competition with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's XBox 360. What's more, it's believed that the new console is compatible with games of Wii and NGC.

Nintendo has announced nearly 70 third-party games for Wii U,such as Assassin's Creed III, Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition, FIFA 13, Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth and so on. To know more about the games, please visit the list from wikipedia.

Touchscreen of Wii U GamePad

Nintendo used to release their new products on sundays. GameCube was released on November 18th, 2001; DS was released on November 21st,2004; Wii was released on November 19th,2006. So it's quite reasonable for the Wii U's releasing on the middle 10 days of November.