Next Xbox Coming in November, Standalone Version to Cost $499

<p>Despite Microsoft confirming their Xbox Event for a date of May 21st&comma; we had already heard of the event&&num;8217&semi;s new date thanks to one <a title&equals;"Microsoft Has Moved Their Xbox Event to May" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-moved-xbox-event&sol;">Paul Thurrott back in April<&sol;a>&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;windowsitpro&period;com&sol;paul-thurrotts-wininfo&sol;here-comes-next-xbox">Thurrott is back once again with more information<&sol;a> regarding the next Xbox&comma; including the price&comma; launch window and more&comma; but nothing if ever official until Microsoft says it themselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For starters&comma; the next Xbox will release in early November with two versions&semi; one at &dollar;499 and another at &dollar;299&comma; but requires a two-year subscription to Xbox Live Gold and an additional payment of &dollar;10 a month&period; The next Xbox will also need to be connected to the Internet in order to be used at all&semi; which Thurrott states &&num;8216&semi;isn’t as Draconian as many seem to believe&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; the Xbox software is based on the Core version of Windows 8 and will also come equipped with a Blu-Ray player&period; Microsoft will go into further detail about the Xbox at E3&comma; with their May 21st event being more of an early reveal that Microsoft will use to &&num;8216&semi;better position the device against the PlayStation 4&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Microsoft is also said to be releasing a third version of the current Xbox 360 hardware that will be a lot cheaper than current models&period; Thurrott notes that the reasoning behind this move in unclear&period; Is it because the next Xbox isn&&num;8217&semi;t backwards compatible or does Microsoft simply want another Xbox 360 in the market&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>None of this may be official&comma; but Thurrott appears to know a thing or two about Microsoft and the next Xbox&period; If anything&comma; use this information to begin making plans and we&&num;8217&semi;ll continue to look forward to the <a title&equals;"Next Xbox Reveal Officially Confirmed for May 21st" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;next-xbox-reveal-officially-confirmed-for-may-21st&sol;">Xbox Event on May 21st<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;