InGames: New Xbox release date of 2015 sort-of confirmed by designer

A designer who has worked with Microsoft has implied that the next generation Xbox 720 is slated for a 2015 release.

In his online portfolio, Ben Peterson posted scant details of a collaboration with Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business design group.

Alongside an angled image that doesn't give much away, he wrote:

"Microsoft Xbox. Confidential / Collaboration with Microsoft's IEB design group investigating future user experiences and hardware for 2015. *Work samples only permissible in person.* (March 2011)."

The mysterious Ben Peterson

Question marks hang over such information; who is Ben Peterson? Didn't he sign an NDA when working with Microsoft? Why is there no contact information on his online portfolio? Will he be allowed to live after such a faux-pas? Or is this all a traffic-mongering lie?

It's not the first time that 2015 has been mooted as the year of the new Xbox ? Microsoft has already said that it sees the Kinect peripheral extending the life of the already-aged Xbox 360 through to 2015.

Perhaps ? just perhaps ? the company is putting those four years to good use and working on something incredible that will blow us out of the water in 2015 ? after all, it islooking for hardware engineers for the Xbox platform and Ben Peterson certainly makes it sound as though R&D is underway.

We guess we'll find out for sure in 2015.