Rumor: Microsoft Becomes The “Ultimate” With Yet Another 360 SKU
by Dan Landis on January 3, 2008 at 6:58 am
It will even cook your breakfast!
If the people over at Stuff.tv are to be believed (and why wouldn’t they be?), Microsoft is planning on beating themselves in the next-gen console war with the introduction of the Xbox 360 Ultimate.
With a scheduled release of Fall ‘08, the Ultimate will come packed with a 320GB harddrive, full 1080p support through HDMI, hi-def audio, built-in wi-fi, and perhaps most importantly: a delicious 65nm chip and a cooler, quieter fan.
To top off this already ultimate Ultimate, they’re throwing in a fully integrated HD-DVD drive.
There is no mention of a price tag other than “TBA”, but I assume it will be less expensive than a horse, so that’s good.
At this point, we’re going to have to call this a rumor. Stuff.tv provides no source, but links to Xbox.com as a contact for more info. The site, however, has no mention of the Ultimate.
If this is true, I certainly hope this is the last 360 “upgrade”. I can only think of one thing better than “ultimate”, but I doubt Microsoft would accept the Xbox 360 Fellatio. They just may need to invent a new word…
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on January 3, 2008 9:18 am
Wow. This is definitely cool if true but did they need to do this? This is definitely going to be as expensive as the PS3, which is obviously what they are trying to pit it against, and that’s why I think it’s a stretch. I think they should be concentrating on developing features, functionality, and games further. Maybe attack the Wii’s user base instead. They definitely shouldn’t be making consoles more and more expensive.
on January 3, 2008 4:18 pm
If this happens I am going to be enormously hacked off. I ponied up for the Elite for some RRoD insurance and a little futureproofing, and I am sure as h*ll not going to horse up any more…this would simply be punishing early (3 years early!) adopters.
on January 4, 2008 8:31 am
I’m very close to buying an Elite, if I do that and then hear about ANOTHER verison… uhg….
on January 5, 2008 12:41 am
They all play the same games!
on January 5, 2008 1:10 am
Indeed they do, but enough is enough already.