Squilliam on 14 June 2010
| kowenicki said:
if the board is smaller and you throw in a HDD and wifi and maybe lose the external brick wouldnt that make this plausible? Oh... and I was hoping for a slot drive too.... |
Ok
- External power brick probably remains (motherboard leak)
- HDD Wifi don't take up much space, especially internally. Wifi is no bigger than your thumb and a 2.5" HDD is vastly smaller than a 3.5" drive.
- The Xbox 360 pulls around 80W from internal components. Based on the previous shrinks they ought to be using between 45-60W for the shrunk chips. They don't need all that space for 45-60W IMO so IMO it opens up the possibility that they might have pulled a Wii*.
*What I mean by pulling a Wii is a slight hardware update which increases performance 2-3* over the original whilst using the same basic but improved architecture. My reasoning is that its the best window to release new hardware for the next 1-2 years because all they need is "good enough 3D" to keep them going for the next 4-5 years before they do their proper in one update with Natal 2 and the Xbox 3.0 (if they release an Xbox 2.5)
Tease.
