Whether their work sees the light of day is another matter entirely, but several LinkedIn profiles, discovered by Twitter user @supererogatory, show that Microsoft workers are doing new (and exciting?) things.
Here’s the rundown: Microsoft’s Jeff Faulkner is the “Xbox Next Gen Creative Director”; Senior Creative Director for Xbox Jonathan Harris is “designing the next generation of entertainment”; graphic designer Patrick Corrigan worked on “groundwork and integration for branding elements for next-gen XBOX on all forms of media… ranging from print to UI across future releases of the XBOX platform”; Microsoft intern Joe Langevin “designed and simulated high speed data buses to prevent electromagnetic interference in next-gen devices.”
So Microsoft employees are working on next-gen. Surprised? I’m not.
Regardless, Kotaku is following up with Microsoft.
@supererogatory [Twitter via Gematsu via WinRumors]
InformedGamer
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:56 AMI was under the impression they already said this. Not sure if I can find the article but I remember a spokesman from MS coming out and saying they are working on the next generation of console, but it’s only early days and to not expect it for at least another 4-5 years…
InformedGamer
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:01 AMApologies, that may have been Sony…
“For the home console, the PS3 still has a product life, but this is a platform business, so for the future platform – when we will introduce the product I cannot discuss – but development work is underway, so the costs are incurred there.” – Masaru Kato, Sony Executive Vice President and CFO, May 2011
weresmurf
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:09 AMI’d say another 2 years til we get the next xbox. Probably announced next year, most likely.
Lord Bob
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:20 PMIf thats the case I expect they’d probably time it to try and overshadow the Wii-U launch.
James Mac
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 10:55 AMGood thing they updated their cv’s… they’re going to need them.
Also, I look forward to a new generation console. I’d love to see how they plan to respond to the Wii-U, not that I expect it to be much competition.
Letrico
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:48 PMIt’s gonna be xbox 720. Already revealed in the movie Real Steel =D
James Mac
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 1:35 PMI kind of hope it is called the 720… but I don’t know why.
Chaos
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 3:50 PMSame here, but they’ll probably rename it anyway. Personally I preferred Project Natal to Kinect.
Pariah
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:11 PMUnsure if trolling or just stupid.