XBox 360 overhaul come August

[In$anity]

BD player, new graphics chip

By Paul Taylor: Monday, 05 May 2008, 10:47 AM



ACCORDING TO KNOW-IT-ALL EDN newspaper in China, Pegatron Technology (bastard offspring of Asustek, in case you’re wondering), has managed to grab the highly-denied “Blu-Ray for Xbox360” deal of the year.

We imagine Microsoft denied the existence of such unit, not to shield its upcoming launch from the competition’s prying marketeers, but rather because its staff were responding in default “mirror” mode whereby hacks that asked the Vole if they had plans for a BD add-on, they received a 100% flat/honest “No”. True. All things considered, it won’t be an add-on.

The newspaper adds that Pegatron will assemble Microsoft’s console with the in-built BD player, with units hitting the market in Q3/2008 – Mid-summer, as it were.

This goes head-on with Dean Takahashi’s info on the Xbox 360 “Jasper” platform that is scheduled for August of this year. We'd already mentioned this platform over here, btw. The Jasper will feature a shrunken 65nm ATI graphics core and “smaller memory chips”. This does make more sense if you’re using the new GPU core to aid you in decoding HD on Blu-ray, too.

So that’s about it, major Xbox 360 platform overhaul coming this summer, with some time to spare for Christmas - Blu-ray, faster graphics and what is likely to be an all-round cooler console – and the thing is assembled by Pegatron Technology.

This Xbox 360 "Ultra" (our word, not the Vole's) should be able to do a bit more than trail the PS3. Should make for an interesting holiday season this year.

source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...ul-come-august

[chuck67]

I call BS...

[In$anity]

its a legit source

[Dj Narcotics]

it is possible if HDDVD woulda won i believe sony woulda done the same so it could happen but only time will tell

[maniak]

will this mean the 360's now will be trash, if the new format will be BD then I'm pretty sure they will be making the upcoming games in BD and not Dual Layer, meaning some of the newer games won't be able to be played on the old 360's unless they either keep the Dual layer format, which would be retarded with all that BD space available or they will produce 2 versions of those current games, a 1 disc BD and then like a 3 dual layer set like blue Dragon or whatever that game was all in all they should just wait and make a whole new system out of it, but let's see what happens

[capnchronic]

the inquirer is pretty much a bullshit source

[williamb47960]

MS has no interest in BluRay this gen, they have said that and stand by it as of today.

[kharmon]

Even if it is true its pointless, they cant use it for games so its basically just an really expensive add-on, plus MS is so focused on Digital downloads why would they waste there resources like this.

360 + Bluray add-on = expensive, the person with th most common sense would look at that then go and get a ps3.