It wasn't too long ago when a Microsoft executive was trash-talking Sony. Nay, going so far as to make a bet against their rival gaming manufacturer. Case in point: J. Allard made predicted that Sony's PSP would downright flop. He was wrong, and to honor a bet with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, he donned dreads and updated his Microsoft company profile page, admitting "N'Gai had it right," and that the PSP was not a failure.
Looks like Microsoft is up to the same antics again. This time, Xbox director of technical strategy and attack blogger Andre "Ozymandias" Vrignaud, is the one to take a bet with N'Gai. He states that "My prediction is that you're going to see the creation of a new, low-end SKU this holiday. It'll likely remove integrated WiFi, memory card reader, and most controversially, all backward compatibility. (Remember, there's still some back-compat hardware in even the new "software only" back compat SKUs; removing the remaining CPU is a significant cost savings.) You'll see a new WiFi dongle made available. And finally, this low-end SKU will likely come with a smaller 40 GB hard drive. The low-end price will be set at $399, with the higher-end 80 GB SKU dropping to $499."
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The game looks too clean without it.
i dont. it hurts my eyes. but im fairly ssensitive when it comes to that sort of stuff.
Is internal WiFi really that expensive to add into the machine?
Maybe Sony will just stick to one-sku just to piss M$ off. haha
I would buy a $399 version in a heartbeat, I have a wired connection, And sold all my PS2 games when the 360 launched. I don't really have a use for the memory card reader either. So this would be a great version for me. I would buy it, but I don't see this happening as backwards compatibility seems to be a big deal for a lot of Sony fans. I just personally never play last gen games on a new system. They are old and look crappy most of the time, so I just buy the new games.
Edit - I forgot about the HDD, but of course it is upgradeable unlike the 360 so who the hell cares. My pet monkey could swap a HDD.
BTW $399 and 40 gig is perfect IMO
And I would be the 1st to buy such a SKU. I don't care about Wifi, BC and card reader.