MS: There will not be an Xbox360 Slim
Microsoft has put an end to rumours of a new Xbox 360 Slim model by stating that the current console editions have plenty of life left in their current form. However, there has been a new price cut for the system and possible evidence of a new ‘Super Xbox360′ with a whopping 250GB HDD
As soon as Sony revealed the PS3 Slim, Microsoft came back with a coincidental Xbox 360 price cut which had apparently been planned for some time (yeah right!). Rumours across various game sites were spread about a new smaller, slimmer version of the 360, but Microsoft have confirmed via Kotaku that a slim console is not in development because current models have a lot more life in them yet.
“We feel like our system has done very well for us in the current form,” 360 product management director Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku.com. “We have no plans for a slim.”
“We feel that we’re not even at the halfway point,” said Greenberg, “People have invested in these consoles, and we have massively connected communities and we have storage. I think what we did with the New Xbox Experience is a sign of what we want to do with the console.”
This week also brought a so called “Xbox Elite Price Drop Shock” (Microsoft’s words not ours!) are you shocked?
Taken from Xbox.com UK:
The Xbox 360 Elite you buy now will be fully compatible with Project Natal when it launches too.
Well, we guess that’s all the information you need to make one of your wisest ever purchasing decisions. But just to reiterate, the new low-price Elite launches on August 28th at ERP £199.99. Make note of those details as necessary – we’re using a big chisel and a monolithic slab of granite. Oh, and do try to keep an orderly queue outside your local games shop!
But if current rumours are true which have been passed to us from GameStooge we could be looking at one hell of a super console package soon to feature a 250GB HDD, 2 Wireless Controllers and Forza 3. It has not yet been confirmed by Microsoft, so it is unclear if a 250GB HDD would also be available to buy separately.
Regardless of the Xbox360 price cut, the PS3 Slim still feels like the better deal this holiday season and it would come as no surprise if it won this years Christmas console wars - it has always undoubtedly been the best budget Blu Ray Player available.
Sources: Kotaku, Xbox, Gamestooge
But who wants a crappy Blue Ray player anyway? It feels outdated already, considering that streaming HD movies from the home network is so much more convenient.
go suck a dick. Blue Ray is better then having sex with ur mum
One year later and no more worthwile.
Your point is moot anyway since you are clearly a virgin and wouldn’t know what sex is like with anyone, never mind somebody’s mum so you have no valid comparison.
Go back to your basement, wipe your cock with butter and wank yourself off into oblivion over your blu-ray you sad little twat.
I’m not sure the answer on this… but do the streaming movies from Live come in
1. 1080p
2. Dolby TrueHD audio?
I know it will be 1080p if your net connection permits it otherwise it will be downed a little to reflect quality of connection without streaming interuption.
I think that comes into effect fully when Video Marketplace becomes ‘Zune’
yep, 1080p but that said the bit-rate is still lower (you’ll need a pretty good TV to notice though, and have a blu-ray running side by side)
nope to HD sound formats.
But… HD stream quality can always be improved =]
I want a blu-ray player simply because no download service will offer you the quality of BR for a long time, plus, this is a big plus, have you any idea how few people have the required bandwidth (speed and usage limit) to make those services viable, it would take me about 10 days to download a 1080p with HD audio film at my speed and that isn’t going to change for about 10yrs according to BT.
Don’t write of Disc films for a very long time, whatever the format (Dvd or BR) as downloading them is not even a option for a vast amount of people.
I have all my Blu-ray and HD films on Hard Drives and I do stream them around the house in full 1080p with all HD audio codecs.
I use a “Popcorn Hour” though not my 360 or PS3.
You either illegally downloaded the movies, or you own the blu ray discs. Neither back up Kid2007’s claim that “It feels outdated already, considering that streaming HD movies from the home network is so much more convenient.”
Blu ray discs are amazing, offering things that HD streams can’t currently offer and probably won’t for some time to come.
With both at $299, the choice this holiday season is obvious.
AugustusBot… the choice is obvious to everyone but you!
BlueRay is a long long way from replacing DVD - simply look for the lack of variety of BlueRay content (I have hundreds of live rock gigs on DVD, you can count the number available on BlueRay on the fingers of one hand).
Plus - I bought a console for its ability to do three things really well, play games online (Sony remains a joke in this department) , link to my MediaCentre to house-wide streaming and to act as a nice DVD/video-file upscaler.
The PS3 (however fat or skinny) only really tackles the final of these requirements - so it’s not the system for me even after all these years of owning a (reliable) XBox 360.
Also - don’t you have to be a child or a midget to be able to grip the PS3 controller properly?
The 360 only upconverts dvd’s from their native 480p if you use a HD DVD add-on. And I’m pretty sure it will only upconvert if you use HDMI or VGA. So if you’re an early adopter of the 360, have no HDMI like me, and had an HD DVD add on… it would only play HD DVDs at 1080i, and regular DVDs at 480p.
As far as playing games online… don’t knock it til you’ve tried it. All this hearsay and put downs of PSN is a joke. It functions the same as Live. If I want to play an online game, it works the same.
Oh, and PS3 also connects to media centers in your house…
If you have the hardware in your house to support it, the Dolby True HD receiver, the 1080p tv… then it’s not even a question when you go to Blockbuster to rent a movie … you’ll go directly to the Blu Ray section and skip dvd’s altogether. Isn’t that replacing dvds? There’s been numerous times when if it’s not there to rent on blu ray, i wait. doesn’t make a big as deal w/ comedies to me, but any action movie is worth the wait.
Oh for the record, there’s some industry standard something or other that prevents any dvd player from upconverting over component. something about analog signals. duno.
you have to use HDMI (or apparently vga?)…
which PS3 has by default, on ALL versions of the console.
Why is the Ps3 slim a better deal? Maybe a good deal for a blu ray player, but if you want to play games, you’ll want a system that has great games. That’s why I’m sticking with the 360.
AugustusBot - my VGA-equipped launch 360 upscales DVD beautifully to 720p and 1080p without breaking a sweat - and without the HD-DVD upgrade you incorrectly mention as being required. And this goes for all my media-center recordings too, plus home videos in various SD and HD formats - depending on age of footage.
DVD upscaling over VGA was introduced in the first Spring dashboard update - many months before Sony started to manufacture the very first PS3’s… and long before 360’s came equipped with HDMI (but hey - the 360 was out so much earlier than the PS3 - back before HDMI was quite so ubiquitous).
Despite all the hype, and all the extra time before it arrived on the market, the PS3 really under-delivers as a games console - with arguably the weakest original/exclusive games line-up of any console that’s survived this long. The crappy inability to communicate and interact properly with friends on the PS3 when in different games is too much of a show-stopper for any gamer with social skills.
I’m willing to set this all aside if you can convince me of one thing though… In a household with all 3 current gen consoles, can you name even one reason why someone would choose the PS3 version of any of the COD games over the 360 edition?
It’s got me baffled - a great game, needs a great console, so talk me through the argument for making the PS3 that console for me, in time for ‘COD: Modern Warfare 2′ this Autumn.
any game available on both consoles… i get for PS3. not sure why. stronger faith that my system wont die halfway thru the game (i have a release 360, refurbished once)… i like the controller better, as it’s not as bulky. the system isn’t as loud. i duno. i just like it better.
the whole “Live has more players than PSN” is irrelevant, because at any given time… you WILL be able to find a game on both systems… and on either system, you’ll still be limited to a 12vs12 match or whatever the game has… it’s not as if you’ll be playing with the thousands more who own 360s all at once…
Why play on PS3? Because in 2 months when your live subscription runs out you won’t have to waste 40$ more in order to play an online match.
oh and i’ve owned 3 hdtvs now, one projection and 2 lcd’s, and not one of those has had a vga connection. i imagine a good majority of hdtvs do not have vga, so those who didn’t search around for a tv with that who were early adopters of the 360 are still out of luck w/ the upconversion. that’s another reason i use ps3 more frequently, i watch all my movies on it.
Uncharted 2: gamescom’s Best Console Game!
I have to agree with Smitty there only because GamesCom for anything Xbox360 was shit… and I am tired of the constant crap videos and screenshots IW throw out for MW2…just release the fucking thing…
@augustusbot
That’s strange, all of the HDTV’s that have been bought by somebody i know have VGA.
Couldn’t agree more augustusbot on the whole ‘will the system actually start up’ thing, that’s why i would always go ps3 on multiplat games.
Plus don’t even get me started on the noise and live subscription thing (which i will not renew come next march for the first time) i think of what i could of done with ÂŁ160 quid it makes me shudder.
Why is it i can’t reply anymore, i hit reply to augustusbot’s comment 5 above and my comment end’s up down here, this is not first time this has happened.
Any thought’s moderator’s ?!?! using firefox 3.0.13
@Lotus 111s
We all have this problem, not sure how to fix it.
@Lotus 111
Yeah makes for a rather messy read trying to work out who is talking to who.
On the bright side though it’s like a little treasure hunt when I call someone a cunt for you to work out who I mean.
Shut up you slavering cunt.
I came for an Xbox Site news, I honestly don’t give a flaming flying shit for the PS3. You think it has a better remote, and better whatever, good for you, I don’t fucking care.
I honestly don’t know why PS3 fanboys are wasting their time coming to this site and saying the PS3 is superior. It’s annoying, their opinion at best is as relevant to me as tits on a board and no matter what, I’m not going to be buying a PS3. I played it on more than a few occasions and I hated the remote, the games weren’t all that great, and time and time again it’s always at the bottom of the three consoles in sales FOR A REASON.
And there are multiple reasons. Bring up the RROD, your comment is a waste of space because MS has fixed that problem. Bring up PS3 has better games, true, they finally have some good games coming out whereas the 360 has had great games coming for some time. Can’t afford a PS3 as an excuse for why I don’t have it? No, more like I like the options of having multiple titles to play instead of just blu-ray movies.
The PS3 slim came out and for not even a week, it’s been dethroned on Amazon’s top seller list by a 360 game that’s a year old, the Force Unleashed. the 3.0 firmware download has freezing issues, and their console updates come out years in between and they still don’t have Cross Title Party chat.
For all the goodies that the 360 comes out with in terms of updates and exclusives, I’m more than happy to pay for XBLive to keep up the superior online service. And yes, it is superior by most non-fanboi standards.
Wow… Angry much?
I come here because I’m a GAMER. I own all 3 consoles. I play games on all 3 consoles. Clearly… one console is superior to all others: the PS3.
Why has the 360 sold more? Being out a year earlier, due to it not being as technologically advanced, and pricing point, by selling a crapped out version like the Arcade console. When all is said and done, when you pay for your online, your wireless network adapter, your play and charge kits, your hard drive… you end up paying more than the PS3 costed, but because of that ninja version of the craptacular 360 Arcade, many families got it for their children as they couldn’t afford the god-system: PS3.
I bet if you could see the ratio of number of 360s owned that don’t use online connections vs. number of PS3s owned that don’t use online connections, the difference would be immense. With PS3 including everything you need to be online except the internet connection, right out of the box, i’d wager more than 90% of consoles owned are online.
360’s… i’d wager 50% or so. How many people who got the Arcade edition pay 100$ for the wifi adapter and 50$ more for live…? I’d say a bigger priority for them is the 100$ hard drive they have to buy in order to save their games…
Again, there you go rattling on ‘poor people.’ That the 360 is out a year early is clearly an indicator that after two-three years on the market, it’s STILL beating the PS3? Fine, there you go, I’d MUCH rather buy a cheaper console with the MOST games, a BETTER online experience, and having FREE updates that only make the system better.
Before you sound like an idiot assuming I’m poor, I could buy the PS3 several times over, but I’d much rather spend it on the peripherals as I’d probably use those slightly more than I would a PS3. Oh and the peripherals? A battery recharging tower, vision cam which I also use to video chat on my computer with, my memory card which I treat as my insurance policy (in case my current ever crashes) and a headset. All that I’d still come up short of covering the costs of the regular PS3.
As far as how many people are online and not, I don’t care for your clearly biased estimate, show me proof, real numbers.
You like the PS3, fine, good for you. But because you like it does not make the PS3 better than the 360 because you and some fanboi’s say so when time and time again, more people buy the 360 not only because it’s cheaper, but it’s better all around minus the Blu-Ray player. It’s simply a smart economic choice of the two consoles.
Lol augustusbot is a ps3 fanboy, i mean like you don’t need a wireless adapter to play online, i don’t have one, why do people always so you do?!
by FREE updates do you mean the COST of a 1 year live subscription?
I’ll assume you do.
Yes, I do, and as I mentioned before, I’m more than happy for to pay for Exclusive content (GTA4 episodes come to mind), Game Demos, Netflix, Fixes and updates and all those other things that the PS3 can’t deliver on every six months for a mere 50 dollars, oh and most importantly, for the multiplayer.
I duno how accurate these are:
“Microsoft said today that it had sold more than 28 million Xbox 360s since introducing the game console in November 2005. That compares with more than 20 million PlayStation 3 consoles sold by Sony since it debuted the device in November 2006, according to Microsoft executives.”
http://latimesblogs.latim...09/01/microsoft-xbox.html
“Almost two years after it came out, Bungie’s Halo 3 is still going strong - with an approximate average of one million unique users playing it every day.”
http://www.escapistmagazi...lion-Unique-Users-Per-Day
When you subtract the 1 million people that play halo exclusively day in and day out, as they’re virtually worthless to all other game designers in terms of a playerbase they can sell to… you’re left with 27million people w/ 360s, 20million w/ ps3s.
The gap isn’t nearly as large as some of you make it out to be.
Probably quite accurate up to a point but statistics can easily be interpreted and used in different ways.
And when you subtract all the people that bought a PS3 to use the cell to cure cancer or whatever other world changing purpose that PS3 fanboys try to use to make the PS3 seem worthwile, how many PS3’s are any use to the designers as a playerbase?
The gap clearly isn’t as large as some XBox fanyboys make out, but it also isn’t nearly as small as the PS3 fannyboys would like to think either.
augustusbot don’t waste your breath HRT ATK & A.Stopinski put up the most pathetic argument’s HRT contradicts himself several times in one short comment and Stopinski is arguing against fanboy’s when clearly he is blinded by his loyal faith to M$.
I have all 3 consoles, i never play the 360 or my missus’s Wii for several reasons firstly the Wii is SHIT, same games different names, waste of time.
360 i don’t really play anymore as i always buy M.plat on the PS3 and the 360 has no exclusives apart from Gears of War that I want (note the I fanboys) and i am fearful of it going RROD on me again as i am out of warranty now.
Having said all that though the console i play the most by a long long way at the moment is my Iphone, great dirt cheap games which i can get hours and hours out of, as money is tight at the moment this suits me fine.
augustus we both know what the better console is, but please keep winding the fanboys up i love watching there pathetic attempts to defend the 360.
You say contradictions yet you don’t point any out. You say you know the preferred system and the one I noticed that recieved the most praise from you is a frickin Iphone. Don’t make me laugh, your attempts to take down my arguments have no merit or weight behind it.
The PS3 aint got games!! It aint got games!!!
for some reason, some comments here were marked as waiting to be approved…fixed now all comments visible.
Really, we’re all losers as for the first time a lot of people have bought all 3 consoles, where as in the past most people stuck to one type. So MS, Sony and Nintendo are the winners, not us mere sheep!!!
Yeah I’ve had all 3 consoles, but sold the Wii ages ago and keep my PS3 for movies
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