Publisher rebuffs our report that it's making content for next-generation games hardware
Yesterday Develop broke news that a new Xbox dev kit has rolled out to developers.
Our source, as well as pinpointing key details of the kits' content, said that the unit had been seen at EA and could even be talked up at E3 to 'steal Wii 2's thunder'.
EA, despite originally declining to comment, has since distanced itself from the claim report.
"This story is a total fabrication – 100 percent not true," EA vice president of communications Jeff Brown has this evening told other sites.
But just because EA is denying it has devkits (which of course the company is duty bound to do anyway if it has taken receipt of cutting edge prototypes under licensee NDA), doesn't mean they aren't real.
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Our source is insistent that, regardless of whoever has possession of it, the prototype unit is real.
So who does have a next-gen Xbox devkit?
Do you think Microsoft will announce "Xbox Next" at E3 this year?
Poll: http://www.wepolls.com/r/182286/Will-Microsoft-announce-Xbox-360-successor-at-E3-2011?tag=58073
I really doubt it considering that it's not supposed to come out until 2014 or something.
so if your source is such a well trusted one tell him to inform us i.e. the gamers about the complete hardware specs of the prototype unit
@Paul.
Under NDA licensing they cannot reveal any information about it. So if this trusted source did then it will be a breach of the license and will cause legal problems.
Here you go Paul, I suggest you read this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement
The games industry doesn't just disclose information because "the gamers say so"... that's not how it works. You i.e. the gamers, get to know something, when it is deemed the right time for you to know it, and not before.
If you want to retain a position of trust in this industry, then you do the right thing, by honouring the NDA that you have signed.
And you wonder why there is such a distinction between you i.e. the gamers, and us, i.e. the industry members.
@Matt, @LeeC22
Any NDA should have also forbidden the "trusted source" to reveal even the existence of such devkits. So, IF the story is true, the NDA is already breached.
And, IMO, that is a big IF - why would Microsoft announce a new platform less than a year after releasing Kinect.
