Analyst Predicts Slim Xbox 360 to Bundle Natal

[Marcus Yam]

A new Xbox 360 with a whole new way to play? That's the way Pachter sees it.

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[idisarmu]

Does that mean that Natal is not coming out??

 

[Guest]

Now I'm just wondering if it will RROD at the same rate...

 

[idisarmu]

[citation][nom]Demonslay[/nom]Now I'm just wondering if it will RROD at the same rate...[/citation]

Less space = less cooling. It will certainly RROD again.... unless it is made with a 28nm process.

 

[duckmanx88]

"At a minimum, we anticipate the introduction of a more feature-packed Xbox 360 "

one can wish. MS wouldn't give up the opportunity to charge $90 for wifi adapters.

 

[babybeluga]

Yay, no basis for a prediction!

 

[Guest]

Actually It WILL RROD less often. Probably statistically almost never. The problem was a bad cooling heatsink connection that didnt make good connection causing the system to go into a protection mode. The new slimmer system will be less complicated because they are putting both the cpu and gpu into one die with a less complicated and better seeting cooling system, AND it will run cooler as i'm pretty sure that it will be a smaller process

 

[matt87_50]

atleast they didn't give the whole bundle a brand new name... like Nintendo did...

 

[Zingam]

I don't trust in that Natal thing. It looks like a nice idea but people are used to using tools with their hands and not waving like Jedi knights or Wizzards 😀

 

[captaincharisma]

with natal if your 360 red rings then natal will display a red ring too. so when your xbox fails with natal you get the RROD in stereo

 

[pojih]

rrod is really an issue of motherboards before jasper.

but I can still say my gf will want the updated xbox, just like she wanted the wii and macbook

 

[welshmousepk]

you guys realize the 'slim 360' was a hoax right?

the 'leaked' motherboard pics (that you have in this article) are of the HDdvd player addon for the 360.

 

[miloo]

hopefully it come out on june ~ my xbox almost done ~

 

[ulysses35]

The best thing MS can do with the slim or any future Xbox360 upgrade is get a decent HSF to install as standard. No poing having a decent gaming platform if the RROD still pops up from time to time.

 

[uncfan_2563]

welshmousepk, i don't think they would have a heatsink that big for a dvd player. The hoax was the picture claiming to be the external casing which was actually the HD DVD player. You're getting them confused

 

[aethm]

I think it makes a certain kind of sense to bundle natal with an Xbox slim IF microsoft wants it to become the new standard in game controllers. IF natal works as well as expected microsoft could potentially monopolize that aspect of of the game industry. That's a lot of IF's though.

 

[cptnjarhead]

could this be bundled with the slim because they needed to do some hardware tweaks for better performance? Just wondering if natal will still be a standard excessory or only for xbox slim?
I do not keep up on console news very much so don't be a hater 😉

 

[fanscale]

And just in time for Christmas. I'll be spending my money on an FPGA Amiga for retro gaming, however.

 

[jkflipflop98]

It's fake. There's no ram modules and not nearly enough traces running to and from the main cpu/gpu socket.

 

[mauller07]

[citation][nom]jkflipflop98[/nom]It's fake. There's no ram modules and not nearly enough traces running to and from the main cpu/gpu socket.[/citation]

you know there's such thing as an underside to the PCB and multilayer PCB's 😛 in one layer there's not nearly enough space for all the traces on any kind of electronics but the simplest

Natal does look interesting but i dont see how it will perform with precision pointing like other precision input devices like the wii mote