If you still didn’t believe the claims that the current generation of consoles would last longer than previous ones, new evidence has surfaced that would suggest it’s going to be several more years before we the successor to the Xbox 360. Job postings on LinkedIn seeking candidates for engineering positions have been discovered which refer to Microsoft’s “next generation console.”
The listings, discovered by a poster on the Beyond3D forums, are for positions in the Interactive Entertainment Business division, which the Xbox falls under. More specifically, they are looking to hire new members to the Xbox Console Architecture team. “The team is responsible for defining and delivering next generation console architectures from conception through implementation,” one of the postings reads.
Beyond that, there’s little informatino that’s of interest unless you’re looking to land a new job. What is noteworthy, however, is that it would seem Microsoft is fairly early in the planning stages on its follow-up to the Xbox 360. With pre-production taking place now, it seems unlikely that we’ll be seeing Xbox 3/720/Revolution, or whatever it might be called, prior to late 2013, if it even comes that soon.
