Microsoft Levels Up Their 360 Product This Fall
- Scribbled on April 30th, 2007 by Derrick Schommer
- Filed in Industry News, Microsoft Xbox 360
You can buy an Xbox 360 Elite now. If you wait until the fall you’ll more than likely get what you thought was going to be part of the Elite system: better hardware.
That’s right, the Xbox 360’s Xenon processor should go 64nm this fall, just shy of the Elite release, and now we’re hearing the 360’s GPU will go 65nm this fall as well. The graphic chips should go into production in May to make a fall release.
What does this mean to you, the consumer? A newer, cooler (less hot) processor that’s cheaper to build. The cost reduction may not help you but it will help support Microsoft’s need for money. Microsoft isn’t exactly reporting positive numbers in their gaming division so cost reduction would help them reduce the pain in producing the Xbox 360.
Now, the question is - buy an Elite for big money? Buy the cheaper console? Or wait until the fall (let’s be honest, December shopping season) to buy this new design?
(Thanks, joystiq)
April 30th, 2007 at 10:14 am
It’s funny, seems like Microsoft is telling potential 360 owners to keep holding off on their purchase.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Sorta like PC purchasing with Vista
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
[...] and black in color means the device has been redesigned to be better. This fall we should see a chip design change, moving to a 64nm chip which should run cooler - perhaps solving the typical “overheat” [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
HellYea so its official then this fall new 64nm chip thats good cause im tired of waiting ive been holding off of buying a 360 for this hardware update and all these great games plus the elite and price drops i want to get a 360 now cant wait nomore if you have the official release date of this new proccessing chip x360 system please email me and let me know thanks
September 1st, 2007 at 10:48 am
The current news we’re hearing is that the CPU will get an update to 65nm on the 360 Elite and Halo editions.
The core and premium SKU’s won’t get it for awhile and it won’t be announced, it will just start trickling into the stock in the stores so you’re chances of getting them are pretty much random until all old stock is sold off.
Secondly, the news is only half good. The CPU will be reduced to 65nm but the GPU will stay 90nm (you know, that thing that gets REALLY HOT). So, the technology may help but it won’t solve world hunger, or massive heating issues.