Xbox 360 v2... time to junk the 1st version!

[Rhodes]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5591

120gig hd, hdmi and more than likely hd-drive built in.

[Chacranajxy]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5591

120gig hd, hdmi and more than likely hd-drive built in.

I'll use the warranty on my current 360 at Best Buy and swap it for this one since... it's clearly superior. Kind of a bastard tactic to release a system that's leaps and bounds better than what everyone already bought though.

[Rhodes]

well now that i think about it... i think it'll come in 2 flavors. 1 with the HD-Drive built in and 1 without. so folks that bought the hd-drive add-on can use it with the plain version.

this release was a given since the original never had hdmi, giving it 120 gigs of hd space would make it "better" than the ps3. thou you can mod the ps3 up to 200 gigs yourself.

pricing thou will be interesting, will it be the same or more... thinking it'll be more for the version with a hd-drive built in.

[indigo0086]

Rumor until proven by Microsoft. Any hobbyist can accomplish that. Not that I wouldn't want one, but it's still a rumor.

[Swordfish_II]

Good thing I waited.

[Chris Beveridge]

Yeah, just lovely. FU MS. Truly. So this comes out, probably late summer, almost two years after the previous one.

When they get around to their third console, probably in 2008 just after they squeeze a few more people this way, they'll release it in a few variations so they can price it all over the map with different features and configurations.

It doesn't diminish my current 360 at all, but it pisses me off to no end. The point of consoles were that if you buy one, you're set for that generation of it. You don't put out new major revisions like this. And it IS a major revision; they can't just add HDMI functionality to the existing model because the internals cannot support it.

[Invisible Crane]

I guess this means people are going to be hating on MS just as bad as Sony now

[indigo0086]

It's a rumor people, show me where this was announced and we'll talk.

Originally Posted by Chris Beveridge

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How long do you think until sony starts releasing consoles with internal scalers, of course without telling anyone.

[Rhodes]

sony already has plans for an a/v centric version of the ps3... 2 hdmi ports and bigger hd... price point 1.5k to 2k

rumor or not... fact is they can NOT add a hdmi port to the existing 360. only way is for a new version to come out. ms is backing the hd-dvd... their console has hd-dvd support but lets face it... its an add on and it cant play movies at 1080p.

ms will do this sooner or later and most folks think its late this summer.

[indigo0086]

It actually does play 1080p through component.