The 360 thread!

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:04 pm 0

disciple wrote:Now it seems you can get the HDMI edition from the US already (65nm not yet confirmed) http://shop1.outpost.com/product/5348938 and looking at the price $350 comes to around Â£200 + postage.

It's not 65nm but seems to come with the improved heatsinks so shouldn't be RRoD'ing all over the place.

Personally I'd hold off for a bit though as I suspect we'll see 65nm boxes around the time of the Halo 3 release. Something tells me they're trying to shift their old stocks of chips before going 65nm, hence the decision to ship the Zephyr motherboard (the exact same board used in the elite - 90nm, HDMI enabled) in the Premium SKU.

My bet? A few places are dropping the Core, and I'd expect MS to follow suite - getting the current premium price down to the price that the core sold at. Then possibly introducing a newer "top" model to replace the Elite, maybe even with built in HD DVD if the parts can be sourced cheap enough.

Cheers

Bubba

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:07 am 0

Bioshock Demo - 1.35 Gb.

Bod · Post by **Bod** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:21 am 0

benedictw wrote:Bioshock Demo - 1.35 Gb.

Not gonna waste time downloading this ... just gonna go out & buy it as soon as its released.

Looks excellent & has had favourable reviews.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:22 am 0

Bod wrote:Not gonna waste time downloading this ... just gonna go out & buy it as soon as its released.

Likewise. Although I'll probably have a look if someone downloads it on the demo pod at work.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:27 am 0

Well I'm going give this demo a go later. I always try demos if they're available just to see what all the fuss is about.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:06 am 0

I'm surprised there's no PC demo too.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:12 am 0

HGFB wrote:I'm surprised there's no PC demo too.

Eurogamer says later this month.

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:54 am 0

Ace news - got the day off work so downloading it now - although i'm already 99.9% certain i'll be picking it up on launch day anyway.....

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:58 am 0

WiredWorm wrote:Ace news - got the day off work so downloading it now - although i'm already 99.9% certain i'll be picking it up on launch day anyway.....

If my download speed is anything to go by then you're 99.9% certain to have picked it up at launch before you've grabbed the demo

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:03 am 0

I'm not usually impressed with my download rates i've got a measly 2meg circuit - but I set it downloading about 10 minutes ago and it's already 10% down - so that's not so bad - should be ready for testing just after lunch hopefully......

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:04 am 0

According to Ken Levine on Major Nelsons podcast the demo is slightly different to the beginning of the game. (Slightly different selection of stuff in the area).

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:39 pm 0

I take it back - my download started off well but now some 3 hours (nearly) later i've got 32% downloaded. Damn you Microsoft!!!

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:42 pm 0

WiredWorm wrote:I take it back - my download started off well but now some 3 hours (nearly) later i've got 32% downloaded. Damn you Microsoft!!!

To be fair, it was kind of expected to grind to a halt wasn't it?

xxxxxxxx users downloading x 1.35GB

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:50 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:To be fair, it was kind of expected to grind to a halt wasn't it?

Well yeah, and to be fair i'm not really that upset. Not really in a position to play it much today anyway so hopefully it'll be down and ready to go later this evening.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:51 pm 0

Wow. Previously I was mostly indifferent to this game. The videos didn't fill me with much confidence.

Shit me it's good. Very, very good.