Xbox 360 XBOX 360 Elite (Zephyr confirmada!!!)

Following months of speculation, Microsoft has officially unveiled a new version of the Xbox 360. Called the Xbox 360 Elite (pictured), the console will go on sale in North America April 29, with European and Japanese launches later in the year. In the US, the console will retail for $479.
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As previously hinted at on many forums and blogs, the new console will feature a variety of different features than the traditional Xbox 360. It will indeed feature a 120GB hard drive to better accommodate game downloads from Xbox Live Arcade and video content from Xbox Live Marketplace. The news coincides with the announcement of a new batch of television and movie partners who will offer content on the service.

The Xbox 360 Elite has a "premium black finish" which matches the wireless controller it comes with. (Controllers and rechargeable battery kits with the same hue will be sold separately.) The console will also sport a matching black wired headset and, as widely rumored, an HDMI output port. The console will come bundled with an HDMI cable as well as a component video cable.

One thing the console will not come with is a data transfer cable, as had been rumored. However, a standalone, $179 120GB drive for the console will be released alongside the Xbox 360 Elite bundled with a data-transfer cable. The cable will allow for the transfer of all Marketplace downloads and game saves from an existing 360 hard drive to the new hard drive.

According to Albert Penello, Microsoft's director of global platform marketing, the old hard drive will be blanked following the data transfer and can then be attached to any other 360. "The standalone drive is the main solution we're suggesting to existing Xbox 360 owners," he told GameSpot.

So what about HDMI-craving HDTV owners who want to get an Xbox 360 Elite and transfer their current XBLM content to it? In one word: wait. Penello said that Microsoft is "working on a solution" for transferring data from current 360s to Elites, but would not elaborate.
Hardware-wise, Penello said the Xbox 360 Elite has the same disc drive and processors as "current models." He also confirmed it would not have an internal HD-DVD drive, as some had suspected. "We don't want to segment the user base," he told GameSpot. He also confirmed that the external Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive would not be available in the Elite's black finish for the foreseeable future.

Another thing the new console won't have is Internet Protocol TV functionality, which Microsoft announced it was bringing to the 360 platform at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. "[IPTV] Trials will start this summer," said Penello, who didn't have a start date for the service.
As for the fate of the current hard drive-less $299 Core Xbox 360 and 360-equipped Pro Xbox 360 models, Pennello said they would continue to be offered. He also confirmed the new model will be a permanent addition to the 360 product line, and not a limited edition.

The fact the Elite is only $20 less than the 20GB PlayStation 3 and does not have next-generation video format playback did not go unnoticed by Sony. “We think every PlayStation 3 owner should have an 'elite' experience, which is why we include an internal hard drive and HDMI output in every PS3 we sell, along with the 50 GB of storage capacity on a high definition Blu-ray disc," said Peter Dille, Sony Computer Entertainment's senior vice president of marketing. Sony also issued a series of talking points asserting that the release of the 360 Elite " further validates the PS3 business model, which [Microsoft] criticized at launch."
For more details on the Xbox 360 Elite, check out GameSpot Hardware's complete examination of the console.
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Vamos lá ver, a elite vai ser mais cara que a premium dai que começo a questionar a noticia do price drop da premium para 300€... depois o artigo tambem diz que não é uma edição limitada, quanto as diferenças é 120gb, HDMI e ser preta...
 
Kursk_crash disse:
e porta HDMI

e possivelmente xenon a 65nm..

mais silenciosa..com a nova drive de dvd's..

etc..
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Eu estava apena a referir-me ao HDD mesmo. 175$ é abusado...
O preço 479$ pela Elite não acho caro, tendo em conta o que foi adicionado e modificado, agora o preço do HDD sózinho é que é abusado...

Abraço
 
jjmaia disse:
A consola traz cabo HDMI :P
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Sim eu sei que a consola traz o cabo HDMI....
O que eu estava a tentar dizer e que o cabo custa bastante, ok o cabo fornecido com a X360 nao sera um topo de gama mas tambem nao sera um dos fracos, digamos que fica na media...
E que o preço da consola 479€ ja inclui o cabo, contrariamente a sua adversaria que custa bem mais e nem tao pouco tras um cabo HDMI, logo o preço final da adversaria sera o PVP somado com um cabo HDMI (de gama media)!!!
 
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menmau disse:
Sim eu sei que a consola traz o cabo HDMI....
O que eu estava a tentar dizer e que o cabo custa bastante, ok o cabo fornecido com a X360 nao sera um topo de gama mas tambem nao sera um dos fracos, digamos que fica na media...
E que o preço da consola 479€ ja inclui o cabo, contrariamente a sua adversaria que custa bem mais e nem tao pouco tras um cabo HDMI, logo o preço final da adversaria sera o PVP somado com um cabo HDMI (de gama media)!!!
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E se não usares HDMI, ficas ai com um cabo HDMI a mais em casa. A mesma situação não acontece com a Sony.
 
so para avisar q a microsoft esta a planear por ca p fora um adaptador de componentes p hdmi para as consolas actuais. ;)

assim tbm vai existir hdmi para quem comprou antes. :D
 
Tens alguma fonte?

Isso é simpático mas tenho algumas dúvidas. É preciso ter acesso digital aos dados "dentro" da consola. De som deve ser simples (visto que a consola tem uma saída digital) agora para a imagem é preciso que exista imagem em digital acessível no conector multimedia da consola.
 
Eu tenho a noitica agora fonte nopes :\

Friendly Engadget.com tipster Evan M wasn't too stoked to see an Xbox 360 Elite headed for store shelves after he'd just purchased a Premium 360, especially considering the fact that his TV has a whole HDMI port twiddling its thumbs, just waiting to get its game on. After informing Microsoft of his displeasure through a politely worded email, Evan claims to have received a slightly encouraging response from a Microsoft support person, promising an upcoming HDMI to component adapter for the 'box to make his situation perhaps a bit more bearable. Unfortunately, the support person also mentioned that "we do not have information as of the moment if the cable will be sold separately," which might mean such an adapter is only destined for sales with some sort of updated Premium SKU, at least for the immediate future.
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Mas como é logico um adaptador destes deve ser quase inutil já que quanto muito mantem a qualidade da imagem ou poderá é piorar...
 
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