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Bitmap Frogs on 14 July 2009
Snake612 said:
Bitmap Frogs said:
Christmas 2010, bundled with Natal.


I think a Xbox 360 slim is pointless and come on bundled with Natal? If anything, it should be bundled with games like Gears of War 2. Besides, if there is any console that should have a slim version, it should be the PS3.

 

LOL.

So any reason why only Sony branded consoles deserve slim editions? Beyond your obvious personal bias, of course.





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Xoj on 14 July 2009
gergroy said:
Xoj said:

only the asians especially japanese can make things small.

have anyone seen their new OLED 40' TV.

crazy!.

slim it's a important factor, it made nokia 6300 sell more then 22 million in a year, psp and DS get the world interested into them.

I think apple would like to have a word with you.

asians are better.

samsung have 6.9mm phones. ;).

and they are strong build.

apple ipod quality it's atrocious the thing it's built to last least than year,  my died, had to buy 8gb card for my phone.

 



C_Hollomon on 14 July 2009

MS is not going to make a slim 360. How can they when the 360 have the RROD problems. Making the 360 smaller would cause more problems to me. They didn't design the 360 to be any smaller.



Garnett on 14 July 2009

Wow C_Hollomon since were STUCK back in 2006 i would have to agree that PS3 is going to own 360 and Wii wont sell at all!



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Lord Flashheart on 14 July 2009

Making the 360 smaller would cause more problems?
And you know they didn't design the 360 to be smaller?

Just wow

 

Was you there when they designed it?

You clearly don't know what you're talking about



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deathgod33 on 14 July 2009

I doubt it, and sadly the reason is just because of the hard drive.



 

 

 

 

hduser on 14 July 2009

I don't care if it's slim, fat or cubed, just find a way to muzzle those tiny high pitched fans.



crumas2 on 14 July 2009

The simplest solution concerning the HD for a slim is to simply provide a USB connector that allows the HD to sit beside the slim. This is assuming slim-360's don't already have a large HD built in that completely negates the need for migrating the older drive.



Slimebeast on 14 July 2009

How about

X360 Slim Pro with 120GB $199
X360 Slim Arcade $149

That'd be a nice counter against Sony Slim $399/$299



slowmo on 15 July 2009
C_Hollomon said:
MS is not going to make a slim 360. How can they when the 360 have the RROD problems. Making the 360 smaller would cause more problems to me. They didn't design the 360 to be any smaller.

By shrinking the size of the console they would have to shrink the motherboard and do a full redesign on the chassis and cooling methods.  At this stage they could probably goto the expense of increasing the motherboard thickness which would allow the GPU and CPU to be mounted during manufacturing at a higher temperature thus getting the solder to flow better and eliminate the issues they have now.  Increasing motherboard thickness at the moment would have been extremely expensive as it changes lots of things based on fine tuned timing, this is not a quick job or cheap.  A smaller 360 would improve reliability dramatically provided they take their time and design and test properly this time.

I do wonder why the main protagonists in this thread saying it will not happen or cannot happen are predominately in the pro Sony camp, it might lead some to think there is a element of fear at the thought of a sexy ultra reliable 360 (if a console floats your boat in that way).