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Xbox 360 Ultimate

So they say there is a new Xbox 360 Ultimate coming soon, reported by Stuff Magazine to have Wi-Fi, HDMI, 320GB Hard Drive and HD DVD player. Rumor is that Bill Gates will announce it in his last ever speech at the CES Convention in Las Vegas. So do i predict Bill to make this announcement? Is it just rumors gone out of control or is it a real possibility?

I expect you have heard about the PS3 and complaints about how unaffordable it was at $599. If a new Xbox 360 would have a whopping 320GB hard drive and HD DVD player, i would expect it to cost at least that. I wouldn't see that price range to go down well at all with consumers. Not only that but throw pies into the faces of new 360 owners. And that brings me to my next point...

Would it sell. Is it really possible that many people would buy a 360 at that price when there are a lot of cheaper options available and clearly the Wii is so successful because its affordable. And does anyone really need that much storage on a console? Is HD DVD nearly dead anyway?. Maybe but don't forget if Microsoft really did release games on HD DVD as well as using it as a movie player, after saying DVD 9 was good enough for games anyway, all the other 360 owners would have nothing to play them on. Plus Microsoft would be putting their foot in their mouths and Sony has done enough of that over the past year or two. If HD DVDs only use was to play movies its best to leave it up to the consumer to purchase the add-on.

Now of course i don't want to go too deep with specs taken from a rumor in a magazine. That could all be false but there still could be another 360 on the way, just not with as high specs as 'Stuff' reports. But 4 SKUs on sale at the same time is a bit too much to handle for the average consumer if all they want is to play High Definition games. So will Gates announce a new higher-spec 360? Unlikely. Normally when this happens we would have more evidence of a new model as the 40GB PS3 did. We no doubt will find out though on Sunday when he gives his last ever speech... so-long!

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Account deleted6678d ago (Edited 6678d ago )

if they were going to announce the 360 ultimate, they would have canceled it now,
and they already working on the 360 ultimatum(aka the xbox 720) maybe it will be released in 2009,
and now back to the ultimate, m$ may not release the ultimate, but maybe they will license the 360 for toshiba(for a price of course) because it seems to me that toshiba doesn't know that its format is dead yet, maybe this would turn out for the good of the bots, m$ couldn't make a good hardware, maybe toshiba can get rid of the hardware problems, i would be happy for the bots if they get a non-rrod-able ultimate rrod machine, oops i contradicted myself a rrod-able ultimate xbox, damn the words won't come out... but you get what i mean..

prone to game anytime anywhere

WilliamRLBaker6668d ago

all ready proven fake and rumor microsoft broke their usual answer and said simply they aren't producing one.

whoelse6666d ago

Yes, well this is over 14 days old so...

WINZLOW6647d ago

How is the 360 graphics better than ps3. 360s graphics are on a compressed disc compared to the ps3 which is on a bluray disc that is uncompressed. I wonder if microsoft will adoopt sony's bluray disc. if so they will probably force them to pay a fee. Sony is the future and starting from here on out, sony's games will be noticeably better. Any arguements ?????????????????????????????? ????????? dont post anything up if your too fanboyish please!!! give me facts about the new 360 and its future abilities.

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