I wonder if Microsoft will approach AMD for the next processor in the next Xbox would be interesting.

This is pathetic. it never was Sony's Cell, it was completely IBM's, Sony PAID their way into having their name attached to it, and a year after the ps3's release have pulled all funding from it altogether, they are no longer aloud to put their name to it. But of course the "damage" is done, and everybody, like this article, refers to it as their own.
Sony are LIARS. Money grubbing LIARS who will do and say anything to their investors to hide the fact that they are very quickly loosing everything they ever had. This includes manufacturing their own reviews and fan sites, and saying they are from independent reviewers, and twisting sales figures and publishing them without saying what they actually mean.

In contrast, since the release of the first Xbox, Microsoft have bought endless hardware firms with the future aim of making the console 100% themselves.
They are working on a hardware version of Direct X, (Direct XBox), and this will allow their games to be playable on both their console and PC, 1 disc, any machine.
This will ultimately lead to Microsoft doing very well in the gaming world.

Nintendo, of course, will always be around. They are on their own safe track.

To Da_ALC.

Your a 360 fanboy, goodluck with the rrod and disc scratching.

Microsoft hasn't done anything to further gaming, the best thing it came up with was live, which isn't bad.

As for Calling Sony being liars, your incorrect.

Sony does partly own the cell, with toshiba and ibm. Sony spent 400million on it.

Meanwhile, Microsoft from the beginning kept on releasing 360's with defective disc drives, defective cooling, defective gpu, and last but not least, didn't have the brains to even fix it, and it still isn't fixed today nearly 3 years on.

They sell it lower and lower because it's not worth anything, you don't even get wifi with it, rofl.

You have backed a dead horse. Microsoft will finish 3rd again and will not re-enter the console business again.

SONY have built tech that lasts, you have games coming out not even possible on the 360, processor just does not cut it.

360 is utter fail. Congrats on your purchase.

Becouse of fanboys like U I am starting to hate my self. How can U say that Sony is a liar if everything that M$, Bill Gates, owns is acquired becouse of old lies. Just think of Steve Jobs, Gates robbed him. If U want to play only 360, fine, that's your thing, but don't make other people feal bad about likeing other consols. Happy New Year BTW:-)

3rd-gen Xbox features what's known as "forward compatibility". It's fully backward compatible with Xbox 360 yet runs its code much faster, allowing Xbox 360 games to run enhanced on it.

Accordingly, 3rd-gen Xbox is expected to be powered by a Power7-derived CPU and ATI R1000 DX12-class GPU, due out in November 2011.