Microsoft has filed a patent application that suggests the company “may be looking to release its next Xbox in multiple configurations, each with varying hardware power and capabilities,” according to Ars Technica.
The patent is for “Scalable Multimedia Computer System Architecture With QOS [Quality Of Service] Guarantees,” and describes a design for a system capable of “allowing platform services to scale over time.”
“Those ‘platform services’ include pretty much everything the hardware does besides directly running games — everything from maintaining the basic operating system, handling network traffic, and interpreting inputs to potentially streaming content to nearby tablets or recording TV shows,” explains the article.
The company is calling this a new “communication fabric” framework that “would let the system allocate computing resources more flexibly between platform and application tasks concurrently, while also ensuring that the game-playing portion doesn’t dip below a certain quality threshold,” notes Ars Technica.
This would allow Microsoft to develop multiple hardware configurations of the same basic system, that allow for additional platform features.
Additional platform services might help convert the game console into a general purpose computer capable of running an operating system like Windows, accessing the Internet via a browser, and offering audiovisual applications, word processing and more.
Microsoft has filed a patent application that suggests the company “may be looking to release its next Xbox in multiple configurations, each with varying hardware power and capabilities,” according to Ars Technica.
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