Incessant Expressions

Rumours on this only came out weeks ago, Microsoft did a great job of keeping it mostly underwraps. Details were scant until last week when it was announced that the Elite would have HDMI, a 120GB hard drive (a much needed upgrade over the paltry 20GB included with the Premium), and be a svelte black color. I was wowed about this for about 10 minutes and went on back to my job because really, it’s nothing super. Honestly, it’s black and that’s about the greatest thing about it. Oh, and the upgraded hard drive which will also be available separately. Instead of adding things customers really want, MS took an easy way out and only added one NEW feature: HDMI. That’s great and all but not everyone has an HDTV and not everyone has an HDTV with HDMI support. Now, we’re given a new $400 console to replace the Premium that’s not really worth it…or is it?

Major Nelson got his new “shiny” black elite in the post today and decided to take pictures of it. All the press photos showed this thing as a giant shiny black monster of a console but instead, it’s more of a matte dark charcoal color. Aside from the hard drive, the only thing going for it was the fact that it was going to be a glossy black like the PS3. This turns out to obviously not be true but that won’t stop people from buying it. I was a bit excited about the idea of a new 360 because I expected it to have an HD-DVD drive and integrated wireless like most people did but no, we were all let down.

This new console will replace the existing Premium console in the coming months but it’ll be plain white instead.

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