New Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ Announced (E3 2010)
Written by Ender on June 15, 2010 · Filed under Games
With E3 2010 now well under way, Microsoft have come out with another ‘shock’ and announced that there will be a new Xbox 360 hitting the shelves this year (as rumoured). So what’s new with Microsoft’s console model? Everything that they should have included in the first place!!
I love my Xbox 360 console and there are some quality games available for it, but my God it’s loud!! Each time I turn it on it’s like it’s about to take off and fly around my living room. Well with the new Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ model, this is no longer an issue as it’s meant to be a hell of a lot quieter even when it’s accessing/reading the DVD – which will be a nice change.
Of course it will still make a noise, but your house won’t shake like it used to. Instead of using two fans, the new version uses one bigger singular fan to keep the noise down. A couple of new vents have been added with one either side and on top so heating shouldn’t be an issue. The buttons on the front have changed slightly with them changing to touch sensitive ones and the disc tray isn’t as clunky when opening/closing.
There’s also the inclusion of built in 802.11n Wi-Fi card, which I think should have been added in the first place, as paying £60 for a Wi-Fi kit is a tad pricey – even the Playstation 3 had that as a built-in feature. The hard drive has been updated from the Elite’s 120GB to more than double to a 250GB hard drive which you can also upgrade if you so wish.
The new Xbox 360 will also be Kinect motion controller (or Natal as we prefer to call it!) ready which means you will be able to plug Kinect directly into the console without having to use a separate power supply for the motion ‘controller’. However existing Xbox 360 users will have to plug Kinect into a power supply as well as the console which goes against what we were told at our Kinect preview event. This is going to be annoying as I’ve got plugs strewn about everywhere. I hate wires! There are now 5 USB ports instead of 3, but I never use mine anyway and the power supply has been scaled down from the breeze block of the first one.
So is it really much smaller? Well it’s apparently 15% smaller than the original but it still looks on the bulky side, but next to the original, you can see a difference. It’s good to see they’ve changed some of the ‘issues’ from the first console, just a shame that I only bought my 360 a few months ago. Perhaps I should have waited just a bit longer for the new ‘slim’ version.
It does look a lot slicker and glossier than the original and the fact that it’s a lot quieter and has built in Wi-Fi is tempting me to trade my current one in for a new one. The Xbox 360 Slim console will be priced around £200 here in the UK on its release date on the 16th July 2010 with the existing Elites and Arcade versions then dropping in price.
What do you think to the new Xbox 360 ‘Slim’ console? Impressed with the changes that they’ve made or is nothing to write home about? Let us know in the comments below.
Via – Wired
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i like the new model but i was just wondering if you can use your original 360 gamer profile on the new one and all of the profile stats etc ?? but overall i will probaly get it and is a lot better than the ps3
So it’s the same as the old one really? Where is the blu ray player then? Or the full 1080p display?? and I’m guessing it will still struggle with high demanding games, so why pay £200 for somthing I already have? You only notice the noise if you mute your telly anyway!! Bring out a better console coz the 360 has been around for 5 years now, it’s out of date!!!
I think it should plug into 2 TVA so you can play split screen properly
yea ps3 wayyyyy better and they just copied the ps3
Shiny surface
Wifi
Touch buttons
no fuss to be made, tbh its still really noisy and looks pretty shit
loads of defects still, brick power thing, flap for usb which is shit,
and batteries for controller unlike ps3 which is plug in and go.
PS3 just mint
Shitbox just fucked
I have , and play ( sometimes) the xbox 360. With elite harddrve (elite broke) and the ps3 … And play the ps a lot more basically because it had all this a two years ago ….. So they’ve gone and copied Sony becaue people got bored of the same shyt for 4 years ?
Bag of crap
Why does Microsoft continue to provide anything less than the best? They had the chance to provide a flawless product here and failed. Positives: Stylish design, whisper quiet (huge improvement), integrated Wi-Fi, Kinect and an increased hard drive capacity. Negatives: No HDMI cable provided in the box like the previous model? A complete oversight not including one. Also there is no mention of Blu-Ray capabilities? These two items being excluded surely take away from the new updated model. Had the HDMI and Blu-Ray capabilities been there is not a console gaming machine that would have come close to it. Too bad Microsoft once again missed the boat.
on this new one will you be able to change the dvd region on it…as say i buy dvd from america i cannot watch them on my old 360 but will this new one be able to play them…..also great price at 200 as just trade in my old one and games get this one so bargin really
So there is no HD cable ? that realy doesnt sound good, unless they intend to sell the hd cable seperate ….
No Blu-Ray?
xbox was sick back in the day, now it’s a failure. unreliable and a waste of money, PS3 is much better. to be fair, PC gaming is the way forward.
I Think This Is Ridiculous Waste Of Money All that’s new is a 250gb hard drive i have a 120gb hard drive currently and i aint used even half of it yet so that’s pointless and who cared if u can hear xbox and it sounds like a car engine when your on cod bashing peoples brains out shouting because uve been shot u don’t think of sound and big woop 2 more usb its ridiculous and a waste of money :(
At the end did I hear right?
He said current 360′s last 5 years??
I’ve had to buy a brand new one every 12 months when the disc drive fails for the last 3 years!
I sure hope this new 360 is far, far more reliable…
still no blu ray player… :(
this new xbox console its bad ass. i had my xbox 360 for 3 years and no problem because i actually take care of it unlike people crying that it brakes every year. im going to buy this one and i know its worth it.
can you use your old hard drive from the XBOX 360 Professional so u get all your saves and info off of it????
i totally agree with jordan singh now cod 6 is out no one ever talks always in game chat its true ps3 is the way forward
it looks pretty good but theyv just tried to copy the ps3 slim with the touch button (on the disk bit, i think its touch xD) and the 250 gig hardrive but the only thing is when the new ps comes out itll be a fair bit more advanced (hopefully :P) but i recon if i had the money id get it (but id get a ps3 first) (:
If you have a Ps3 your obviously going to say it is better, same with Xbox., And Xbox does break a lot but we get it fixed for free if you send it to Microsoft and this new one is worth the money because all you have to do is sell the Xbox, and the hard drive then you get the new one for like £80. Now don’t say that’s not a good idea ?
for all of you that have said the only thing that has changed on this xbox is the hard drive i think you should just go back to you gameboys as that is what you know this xbox is not only cooler (in temp) and looks but the wireless function will better that of the ps3 and the previous wireless kit for the old xbox 360 the cpu and gpu chip i believe are dual chip. And as for the ps3 is far better comment i beg to differ i used to have a ps3 a wii and an xbox now i only have my xbox and i agree with the bloke if you look afer your console there are no problems i have had two one i sold due to my bro inlaw wanting one and the other which i have had for a year now no problems with it. Plus online gaming on the xbox is far superior to the ps3 as i dont know if u will remember cod waw but the servers on that for the ps3 and most other games no matter what connection speed you have is pathetic it usually doesn’t even let u play agaiinst people in the same town as you so dont talk nonsance. please let me know if you agree with this.
p.s plus kinect is far better than anything else on the market today and plus who really needs blu ray all it is is an expesive dvd damn another big money maker and the reason it wont be in this is because it is exclusive to the ps3 i believe so someone mentioned to me
they sould put blue ray
so what is the point of this “new” system? Microsoft=FAIL! what a EPIC disappointment. I’ll just keep my 360 that I have and buy the Kinect when it comes out. Every few years Nintendo would always release a new system, it’s fun and exciting and people expect that! Microsoft seems like they never even tried, they just made a glossy XBOX 360 with a more quite fan and built in wifi, big F**kin deal…
I cannot wait for the xbox to come out all i need to do is trade in my old one which i can get £200 because my xbox has a hardrive and 2 pads and a charging station which i dont use anyway and my wireless adapter which is about £20-£35 so this new Xbox 360 Slim is mine.
I totally agree with Steven Ferrie
I was gritting my teeth reading half the stuff in this thread.
Right, for a start those whinging about wanting a new state of the art consol.
That’s really not going to happen for a good few years yet. The reasons being that both Microsoft and Sony have made massive losses in the first few years of the current consoles being launched, both are only now in positions where they are starting making money from it. secondly developers have made massive losses getting to grips with the new platforms and the huge expense of producing the quality of games we are all getting used to. So you can quit the whining and accept that they are probably doing there ongoing R&D into the next generation of gaming consoles but you and I will not see it for a few years at best.
Secondly the PS3 boys on here condemning the new model xbox for not being all it could be.
Ok the main gripes about the first one, other than the RROD thing with the fist models were: It is too noisy, it lacks built in wireless, the power supply being external , the hard disk size and more USB ports needed, now correct me if I’m wrong here, but haven’t they just addressed each and every one of those things, there not claiming this is a new console only a modification in the right direction, unlike the PS3 which on each revision losses features that were present in the previous incarnations, no longer has hardware support for PS1 and PS2 in fact it can barley run any of the games, unlike the xbox which will run most of the old xbox titles, the loss of the much hyped emotion chip, the cutting back on some of the co processors, with emulation via software replacing them all. The loss of USB ports.
The fact is this new xbox is better than the ones we have now, because it addresses the issues the last one had, lest see if Sony can even step up to the mark and make improvements, and not just cut costs of production. The latest PS3s are half the machine that was the first generation.
As for blu ray. .no thanks, I’d rather they allowed mouse + keyboard interface for the 1st person shooters, even if it meant the servers detecting what you were using and placing you with games using the same interface. I struggle on with the controller for now.
I for one welcome the changes and I will buy one.
oh I forgot to say
“copied the shiny black look of the PS3”. .who cares what it looks like, if it was package in a cornflake box, it would still be worth getting.
And NO HDMI. If this is the case and I’m not sure if that confirmed (after all the elite came with a comprehensive lot of cables), So what?, you can get them for about £3 whats the big deal, it’s hardly the thing that buying one hinges on
This is gonna be way better than the ps3. Many people are saying that it’s just a copy of the ps3, well to be fair ps3 did copy most of xbox 360 traits in the first place. Also others are saying “big woop more memory and less noise” well it’s nice to have less noise but it’d be great that an xbox that shouldn’t break, or get RLoD. This just looks brilliant, not really any need for blueray, I mean it’d be nice but it’s not really an esential.
First of all I don’t see a reason for getting a new DVD player
Just to see minor changes, HD looks pretty good to me.
so I really doesn’t lean over to the ps3 side just cause Xbox doesn’t have blue ray. Plus most games I enjoy come out on Xbox 360. So all Microsoft had to do was fix red rings and cool the system down and with improvements like internet connections and making the Xbox quieter and adding memory at 250gb for the same price yeah I’m going to buy it.
Plus who said it did’nt come with an HD cable the new xbox can play game in 1080 P or 1080I. so it would at least have a HD cable
If my Xbox breaks definitely going for the new model.
Will the disc reading errors be solved though?
I’ve had to buy 4 consoles and i’ve never had The ROD it’s all been disc reading errors.
What happened to the days of sturdy consoles like the original Xbox for instance that could take some abuse before it even stuttered.
xbox is alot better i had ps3 for 2 years and traded it in for an elite im going to get the new 1 but they shud of put full HD in it
Finally upgraded to the slim version. So much better!
Having 5 children 3 boys and 2 girls, all played on the Xbox original, then moved on to the Xbox 360 in 2001, the game have improve a lot, so did the controller with the chargeable battery, now with the new Xbox 360s ( that I recently got for them) provide a wireless networth big improvement,adding 3 xtras USB port for social is in my book “odd”( looking at the face they make when they play, is certainly NOT a good sigth to see),a much needed improvement would have been the use of a keyboard and mouse for old timer like myself and other PC game players , I only play on PC because of the keyboard and mouse.the PC game online mostly are free so when somebody sitting in his high chair decide to really make money ( because someone actually did create a product( not microsoft ) XIM3 to use a keyboard and mouse on the XBOX 360 , more peoples would come to the XBOX 360 , and more people means, more money
my 2 cents worth