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Squilliam on 26 August 2008
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NightDragon83 said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
NightDragon83 said:

 

The unit AFTER jasper will prolly be the successor to the 360. It would be smart to wait a few weeks after the price drop to let the existing inventory cycle through the the OP said. I can't complain, I got an Elite model with the Falcon chipset last X-mas and had no problems or issues whatsoever, and although its still possible, very few people have gotten the RROD with the Falcon models compared to the older ones.

It remains to be seen if Jasper is fully RROD proof, but either way you're covered so there's no reason not to pick one up after the price drops... $199 for the base model is almost a steal considering the severely underpowered Wii will still be at $249 soley due to the ridiculous demand for it.

 

FAIL. MS has been rolling motherboard upgrades yearly, are you implying they releasing the 720 in 2009?.

The guy who leaked every motherboard revision already has leaked next year's 360 revision. They will keep pumping motherboard revisions as long as the 360 sells because each revision means less manufacturing costs.

 

No shit, I'm not talking about minor little itty bitty cost cutting "upgrades" like Sony did with the original PS1/PS2 systems... I'm talking about a major change like the Jasper unit is, with its completely redesigned GPU.

We won't see another major change to the 360 architecture like that unless they go for a "slim" model like Sony did with PS1 and PS2, but that won't happen for sometime, and by the time it is released (if it's released at all) it'll be because Microsoft is on the verge of rolling out its next console.

Talk to me next year... if Microsoft does in fact announce yet another major change in 360 hardware, then an announcement about the 360's successor will follow it pretty much immediately.

Bold 1: The next upgrade is the CPU+GPU combination, with a slim console. It'll come next year.

Bold 2: Not really, Microsoft will probably release their next iteration in 2011 or 6 years after the Xbox360 was released. We haven't even heard rumours or anything about one coming out this year.

Bold 3: As above and releasing hardware updates are not reasons to believe that a new version of the Xbox360 is coming out immediately. Wasn't the PS2 slim on the market for a couple of years before the PS3 for example.

 



Tease.