Rumor: Microsoft to Axe Xbox 360 Elite Edition

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aderoche said:

Cueil said:
Rebranding the Elite may work... relaunching it as the first slim model with a solid state hdd would get many to jump on board... I know running installed games from a solid state hdd would be way faster than the normal hdd.

 

While I would love solid state loading times the price for those drives is exorbitant right now. It will be years before the SSDs are mass market price. 

Plus any HD-caching games such as Halo3 would slash the life expectancy of such a device.