I have been really looking into these rumors about a possible black Xbox 360 lately because I am planning on getting a 360 soon and I want to know if I should wait for this new version. If the rumor is true, then the black version will have a 120GB hard drive, 65nm processor, an HDMI port, and will supposedly cost $584. From what I have read, it will be arriving in April. But, it is already March and with no mention of it at this weeks GDC in San Francisco, I am really having my doubts. Would it even be worth the money? Sure, a bigger hard drive would be nice, from what I've been told the 20GB drive is not big enough. But I have no use for HDMI and the 65nm processor will bee faster and cooler, but is it really necessary? As far as confirmation goes, there isn't much. Aside from a few pictures that could have easily been photoshopped. But the piture above is interesting. It is from an ad on Gamespot. I could not confirm that this ad exists because it is no longer running on Gamespot, but I have seen it on several reliable sites including Gizmodo and Endgadget. So keep your eyes open, but don't keep your hopes up.
Image from Gizmodo
This war between consoles has been going on for a while now (read: 4 Months) and many are wondering whether or not a winner has been decided. You could include the Wii in this war but I find that it is in a separate new class of casual gaming and semi-physical gaming. Anyways the Xbox 360 having been out for a much longer time has obviously sold much more consoles but by comparing their numbers at lauch you can somewaht predict a winner. The Xbox 360, launched November 2005, sold 325,902 in the first month of its launch. The PS3 on the other hand only sold 195,000 units in the first onth of launch. That is a huge gap. Also during the PS3 launch the Xbox 360 sold 511,000. You could balme this on the bad production management of the PS3 but the Xbox 360 had the same problem at launch so that claim really is not valid. This would mean we could declare a winner in the first round but the second round is blazing forward with PS3 shortages still rampant to my knowledge and Xbox 360 being bought more and more. The Xbox 3660 being bought more an more could be becuase the people that wnated the PS3 were turned away by the price or by the shortages. We'll have to see how it plays out in the future.With a possible Xbox 360 Version 2 and the Fall 2007 Title Halo 3 coming, Sony had better have something up its sleeve to counteract all of those sales that those options will bring.
This is by far one of the most useless Xbox 360 Mods I have ever seen. from a technical standpoint this is pretty good considering the cooling issues the Xbox 360 has encountered, adding a 5.5" screen to it would not cool it off anymore. But tyring to really play on this little tiny monitor would almost be impossible. It would be good I guess for a travel Xbox 360 but then you could just loook up the Xbox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck. The screen gives you the full capability that any other screen that you hooked the Xbox 360 up to would have.
Original at Engadget.