Technical specs have been leaked about Xbox 2 or "Xenon" as it is codenamed. Weighing in with 3 3 GHz PowerPC cores, a GPU that is "beyond the ATI X800" and 256mb of RAM (the current Xbox has 64mb) the machine seems to have the necessary hardware to take us to the next generation of gaming.

More capable hardware has come out in the past, but has fallen to the wayside. Machines like Neo-Geo had loads of power for their time, but didn’t have the developer support that the SNES and Sega Genesis had and eventually failed miserably.

Will this be the case for the upcoming system? More than likely not, considering the current developer support they have for their current system, one would expect that support to carry over to the newer system to be released Q4 of '05.

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