One of the alledged Xbox 720 development kits (codenamed Durango) has been sold on eBay for £12,833 (or $20,100).
The machine was sold by a man going under the alias of DaE, who appears to be the same individual that leaked the first images of the dev kit as well as last week's reported pictures of Kinect 2.0.
I sold one of two I own. I still have the one that featured in news, the other one wasn't really necessary to keep as a leg rest.
He announced on Twitter that, "I sold one of two I own. I still have the one that featured in news, the other one wasn't really necessary to keep as a leg rest."
The online auction attracted 43 bids from 18 bidders. The winner, ****x, didn't bid until quite late in proceedings but jumped the price from $16,000 to $20,000 in a single bid.
While DaE's recent tweets suggest that he doesn't foresee any problems with the sale, it'll be interesting to see if Microsoft remains silent or gets involved. Traditionally, dev kits and the like remain property of the console manufacturer but are technically "loaned out" to developers to use under strict guidelines. The legal implications of selling one for profit are presumably pretty hefty.
We first heard about the Durango development kit back in February thanks to a tweet from Crytek, though Microsoft is yet to confirm the existence of the device or its codename.
Luke Karmali is IGN's UK Editorial Assistant and has never really been good with eBay. You too can revel in mediocrity by following him on IGN and on Twitter.
Source : ign[dot]com
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