Microsoft announces Xbox 360 Elite

I don't understand what the problem with this is?

You don't have to buy it.

I know of at least 8 who have been saying for weeks that if the Elite did come to fruition, they'd sell their 360s and buy a PS3 instead.

This is just a ridiculous attitude!

For Xbox fanatics it's great. But I really don't see the point in it all. Sure a big hard drive is nice and roomy, and they can throw in anything else they want... But I fear they will pull a Vista.

I think it's the fact that they've got an Xbox 360, and MS have just come out and said that they've got a much much better version of it that can display HD properly, and looks a damn sight nicer than the beige.

I think it's kinda like "ok guys now that you've all gotten the regular one we're going to put the super-duper one on shelves so you've got no choice but to buy it or stick with your lesser console."

The good news is, I bet Xbox360s will be going mighty cheap on e-bay soon.

Nuts to Ebay, the price of the core at least should fall in shops. The Premium too, if MS are clever.

The thing is, they're slowly losing the price advantage over the PS3. With the "Elite", if you buy the HD-DVD add-on, so you can watch it in proper HD with HDMI, then you're paying more than the price of the 60gb PS3, right? Even as it is, without any add-ons, it's only $20 cheaper than a 20gb PS3, and that's bad. If for $20 more you can buy something with a Blu-Ray drive and free online play, rather than an improved version of something already out there, with extra expense for online and HD-DVD, then which would you go for? That could end up being a problem, especially when the PS3 gets to the point where it has 100+ titles on the shelves.

New cars come out every year, usually with only minor improvements over the previous iteration. Why not consoles? They cost about the same!

im just gonna buy the new harddrive. because right now mine is 100% full with the first season of Jericho and Sarah Silverman and about 15 arcade games. Bigger harddrive is much welcomed here.

I don't even really use my hard drive, so why the hell do I care? I simply use my 360 to play video games, that's all. It comes with plenty of space.

Well I would think the HDTV feature stuff would be the other thing people care about.

LOL $180 for 120GB??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I can get a 250GB for less than that....why did they ahve to make the 360 HDD propritary?


Also wtf is up with M$???? No internal Wifi??? No internal HD-DVD???(this means MS is not so sure of HD-DVD anymore so they only release it as an option, they stated that if HDDVD lost they could still make an eternal blu ray player......it would be funny if sony locked them out of the format tho, but they wouldnt since that would just increase BD sales)

it is an interesting box for those who havent got a 360 yet, but for those who have 1 its just a minor upgrade.....meh


PS3 > 360 (i have both, just wish there were more games for pS3)