Xbox 360 Elite: HDMI-enabled black unit with 120GB HDD in late April

[Paranoimia]

Should be getting my PS3 tomorrow! Got my extra controller through today... bloody tease that is!

Not impressed with the 360 so far. Too many hardware failures, and only Gears of War really worth getting from what I've seen. Played it at a mates - great game.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by Tod

Well at least Sony won't be ripping us off with some all doing improved version next year!

it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they did.

these big companies all the same really just interested in the $$$ and nothing else.

Originally Posted by Tod

Well at least Sony won't be ripping us off with some all doing improved version next year!

ermm.. you do realise theres 8 versions of PSone, 12 versions of PS2 and 3 versions of PSP already dont you Tod... so just keep telling yourself that.

I would go as far as to say that with the removal of the emoiton engine, we now have PS3 v2 within a few months. Its norm when they do a new version of the hardware its for the better, and not for the worse. Not so in this case

[awibble]

And how many Operating systems from the people bringing you an Xbox? And how many of those are bug free (lol!!!)

Not sure how you can put Sony down for making minor changes, when i bet most of you complain about windows all day.

Originally Posted by awibble

And how many Operating systems from the people bringing you an Xbox? And how many of those are bug free (lol!!!)

Not sure how you can put Sony down for making minor changes, when i bet most of you complain about windows all day.

The changes remove functionality and the price is higher.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Paranoimia

Should be getting my PS3 tomorrow! Got my extra controller through today... bloody tease that is!

Not impressed with the 360 so far. Too many hardware failures, and only Gears of War really worth getting from what I've seen. Played it at a mates - great game.

Meh, you should be over here then


Only GoW? Far more than that, & certainly more decent games than the PS3 has...


But anyway..........


If this is true, then I'll be trading in my launch Premium 360 for an Elite 360.

Although I'm not sure whether to hold off for the white one or not... surely the black one will be too soon to be 65nm (as I thought that was later in the year), so the white would prob. be needed for that. Plus, my white HD DVD drive prob. wouldn't go well with a black 360.

[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by Paranoimia

Should be getting my PS3 tomorrow! Got my extra controller through today... bloody tease that is!

Not impressed with the 360 so far. Too many hardware failures, and only Gears of War really worth getting from what I've seen. Played it at a mates - great game.

I take it you haven't played many then. One of the main problems with the 360 (apart from the dodgy hardware) is that there are TOO many games worth getting, hence the mountainous pile of green DVD cases sat in front of me.

Originally Posted by Matt D

Meh, you should be over here then


Only GoW? Far more than that, & certainly more decent games than the PS3 has...


But anyway..........


If this is true, then I'll be trading in my launch Premium 360 for an Elite 360.

Although I'm not sure whether to hold off for the white one or not... surely the black one will be too soon to be 65nm (as I thought that was later in the year), so the white would prob. be needed for that. Plus, my white HD DVD drive prob. wouldn't go well with a black 360.

I was wondering about the 65mm chips as well, not to mention that after the elite there may be a price cut (or at least the elite features will go down to the price of the premium)

Anyone know how you would be able to transfer all your saves and paid for content to an 'alledged' Xbox360 Elite machine or for that matter a larger HD?

Its not possible (at present) me thinks.

Found this: http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=8377 which says:

The latest talk suggests Microsoft could be planning on release a data transfer cable, enabling gamers who upgrade from their standard hard drives to transfer their saves and downloads across to the new device.

BUT that would mean having to keep your original xbox360 ??????

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Anyone know how you would be able to transfer all your saves and paid for content to an 'alledged' Xbox360 Elite machine or for that matter a larger HD?

Its not possible (at present) me thinks.

Found this: http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=8377 which says:



BUT that would mean having to keep your original xbox360 ??????

For game saves, I can transfer them between my hard drive and memory unit so you could copy them to the MU and back to the new hard drive. I found DOA and PDZ game saves can not be moved thou

Things like Xbox Live Arcarde games are locked to you Gamertag, not the harddrive, so your free to download them again for nothing assuming there paid for previously.

[dragon]

Originally Posted by NEONKNIGHT

Anyone know how you would be able to transfer all your saves and paid for content to an 'alledged' Xbox360 Elite machine or for that matter a larger HD?

Its not possible (at present) me thinks.

Found this: http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=8377 which says:



BUT that would mean having to keep your original xbox360 ??????

http://www.play.com/Games/Xbox360/GE...a/Product.html

this Might do it although quite a lot of marketplace content is locked down that that if you run it on a different machine to it was downloaded on it will only work whist your signed into xbox live.

I know if your 360 goes faulty you can get them to refund the points so you can rebuy the marketplace content on the new one but whether they'd do that for you just because you bought an elite I don't know.

Looks like they will have the cooler chips! (along with the quiter drive and better fan!)

woo!

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Damien

Looks like they will have the cooler chips! (along with the quiter drive and better fan!)

woo!

Where'd you hear that?

opps!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/more-xb...-up-246901.php

[Tezcatlipoca]

Hmm. I thought the introduction of 65nm was going to be delayed 'till a lot later this year.