Here Comes the Xbox 360 - Refreshed!
Published by Sunny on January 7th, 2007 in Gaming, Internet, News - Views
Microsoft’s “Zephyr” was leaked to the press complete with HDMI, 120GB hard drive and 65nm processor.
According to Engadget, the Xbox 360 v2 (codenamed Zephyr) should result in a cooler console as the the 90nm IBM Xenon PowerPC processor was swapped out in favor of a 65nm revision. This has not been officially announced yet.
Xbox-Scene has posted new images and a video of the new HDMI-equipped Xbox 360. The images include a clearer shot of the back of the console along with motherboard shots which show off a new HANA scaler chip. However, when contacted, Microsoft said - “We have seen all types of claimed leaked photos like this show up online and as a standard policy we don’t comment on speculative items.”
There is also a single HDMI port for full 1080p support — no firmware trickery needed. Also on the way is a 120GB hard drive which would double the capacity of Sony’s top-ranging PS3. There’s no word yet if Microsoft has seen fit to quiet the banshee-like DVD drive, but we can only hope that the answer is yes. Report from DailyTech.
Here’s a video -
Edit: Video was removed for sometime cause it was messing up the site template in Firefox. The video has now been moved. Inconvenience regretted.
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January 9th, 2007 at 2:16 am
that would be great. Maybe if the 360 was out for longer then 1 year and 2 months. They need to put their mines into something good and worth it like halo 3. not worried about another system already
January 9th, 2007 at 9:42 am
This is great news! i simply hope i can get the cash to buy it if and when it is released. It sounds solid all around and if all of this is true it will mean much less overheating, no need for extra hard drives or mem cards, and best of all we can finally get a no “trickery needed” 1080i experience which will make gears halo3 and all the other games make the PS3 look even more worthless
January 9th, 2007 at 11:22 am
And for the price, it should be a killer deal!
January 9th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I do pity the people who have already bought the Xbox 360. But then again, they’ve enjoyed more than a year with the Xbox 360.
Since the prices of materials have fallen, Microsoft is expected to keep the price of the Zephyr pretty low, low enough for the PS3 to get a big hit.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
This would piss off a lot of XBox 360 owners; it’d be a great disservice to those who already own the system. If they do pull something off like this then I’d hope MS would have some kind of exchange program where they could replace their current 360 for the new one in addition to whatever additional costs they might set up for the exchange. That would appease those with the older systems.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
@ Ash,
The idea of an exchange program is excellent, but that would have a negative impact on Microsoft’’s profits. Replacing the ‘currect 360 for the new one in addition to whatever additional costs’ would mean they would incurr a loss equivalent to each Xbox 360 sold till date, plus the additional costs. Now that isn’t a very good marketing technique.
Also, where would all those returned 360s go? Waste of material don’t you say?
January 9th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Xbox 360 - New version seems promising…
Video and information pertaining to the yet-to-be-released Xbox 360 gaming console code named “Zephyr”….
January 10th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Man that is homo. Those of us who already bought an xbox 360 are all going to be pissed if it really comes out. Microsoft better have something for us as well as we already spent our money on an ‘obsolete product’ only a year after it came out. Anyways i will probable get a new one anyways
January 14th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Haha, that’s funny…Thats why you never buy systems as soon as they come out. I’m glad that my patience is going to pay off and im gonna have a better system than the rest……hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha!
January 16th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
hahahahahahahahahaha me too i can get a a better version of the 360 as well i bought the first version Xenon or whatever and i was playing ghost recon and it froze every 5-15 mins i was pissed off so i returned it the “Freezing Problem” should be fixed on Zephyr.
January 17th, 2007 at 7:07 am
thts so gay . . i just got a 360 for christmas nd they are aleady makin a new one . . . if they do i will never buy another future xbox console ever becuase tht is bull…what a waste of money!
February 16th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Luckily when this comes out i have a 2 year protection policy on my xbox 360 and im just gonna return it to circuit city sine i was expecting this. sucks for the rest of you guys. lol