If any of you have been in chat, you know my story. I'm supposed to be getting a 360 from my uncle. Long story short, he isn't getting a new one until they release the 'new one'...
So here's my question. My uncle has supposedly heard there is a new version of the elite coming out, and that there is going to be a price cut... Supposedly in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Have any of you heard about this, or is he just crazy? I've heard of a new "Arcade" model... and those new heatshinks... but nothing of a price cut
As far as I know:
The price cut has come. Came ages ago, even. I doubt another cut will come any time soon.
The "new" 360, AFAIK, is the one that includes an HDMI port. In the case of the Elite, that's all of them; in the case of the Core and Premium packages, however, that's a pretty significant difference. However, the HDMI-enabled Core/Premium 360s are, AFAIK, already on the market. Just pay careful attention to the box, making sure HDMI is listed on one of the box's sides. It's important. Yes.
The only other thing that I've found so far is this surprising, but as-of-yet unannounced, all-new model, known as the Xbox 360 Arcade. I don't know much about it, other than it's around as cheap as the Core one. It seems to include a 512MB memory card and has wireless controllers, but it lacks a hard drive. That said, apparently you get 5 XBLA games free or something. Interesting... the Premium is still better, but interesting...
Yeah, that's what I thought too... Gods damn it jim, I want my 360 now, especially since you promised it a month ago =
The Core is being phased out and the Arcade is replacing it.
Hopefully, if it is still in the shop, I should be getting a preowned 360 Elite today. Tis my Christmas present. But I have to make sure all the games I've bought for it works of course. >_>
Gamesmaster Article on what you should be looking out for on the 360 Premium/Core Box:
The closest thing to a 'new' version I can think of is that the new Falcon 65nm processors go into production for the 360 at some point (or have), and will be on the shelves soon (or now?). They're supposed to give off less heat and thus be more reliable. Other than that I don't have a clue what it may be outside of things people have already mentioned.
I've heard that the 65nm is appearing on the special Halo 3 edition units atm... others to follow soon.
Thanks guys... I hadn't heard anything like what he was talking about. I figured I would have heard something on Kotaku about these 'new systems'.
