endimion said: hum one of the fella commenting the news has a good point
"I have a theory: I'm willing to bet they over manufactured their Elite Mobos. I'm also willing to bet that the 65nm chips are still right around the corner. Therefore, the premiums are now getting the HDMI port to reduce the stock of the overmanufactured elite mobos in preparation for moving the entire line over to the falcon mobo."
it could make sens... they want to clear the zephyr config to move on the falson on all system... that would really be the most cost efficient way of dealling with the PB |
Ummm, one flaw is that until recently, Elite's were sold out everywhere. And they're still kind of supply limited. For example, you cant do store pickup on Elites at BestBuy and Circuit City.com. And Gamestop still only sells an Elite bundle on their website I believe (the normal practice with hard to get consoles).
So that doesn't make any sense. There was no "overstock" of Elite motherboards..
It's likely MS will eventually switch to 100% HDMI motherboards anyway, whether they're called Zephyr or something else. It's actually more expensive to produce different motherboard models, it's cheaper to just have one. The sooner MS gets all their products onto HDMI the happier they'll be. That is the transition that is likely happening rigtht now.