Next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft exist, says EA

More and more rumours keep popping up every day about the next generation of consoles. It is a widely agreed upon fact that the current generation of consoles - the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii have run their course, this being well into the generation’s seventh year. Recently, President of EA Labels Frank Gibeau confirmed the existence of Microsoft and Sony’s next consoles.According to Gamespot, Frank Gibeau mentioned in his keynote speech during Gamescom that he has seen both of them. During his speech about the future of the gaming industry as he sees it, Gibeau said, “Ten years ago we used to measure our market in terms of 200 million people. Now we are at a billion people playing games and we have a straight line view on 2 billion.”Even though there is no word on a “PlayStation 4” from Sony so far, Microsoft had mentioned a “new Xbox” in an interview. In the interview, general manager of Windows LIVE in Microsoft, Brian Hall, mentioned the existence of “the new Xbox”. Hall referred to “the new Xbox” as one of the many projects that could be integrated with Windows 8. He said, “We’ve had Hotmail and operated Hotmail for about 16 years. We obviously have Exchange, and Outlook, that people use at work,” said Hall. “We just decided it was time to do something new and bring the best from each of those and put them together and release it right in time for the new wave of products that we could have coming out with Windows 8, with the new version of Office, with the new Windows Phone and the new Xbox.”

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