Wedbush Morgan expert Michael Pachter has forecast a brand-new lean-Xbox 360 hardware mod just before the end of 2010. Speaking about the possible sale price reduction to combat loss of marketplace share to the PS3, Pachter informed investors, “It is far more likely that we will see a slim version of the Xbox 360 with a 250 GB hard drive and with Project Natal bundled into the box while maintaining the $299 price point, especially if Sony does not lower the price of the PS3 by the time Natal and Sony’s Move controllers launch in the fall.”
Kate Moss - Slim, But Not as Slim as an XBox 360
This is actually not the very first whisper of a possible 360 component modification in the recent past. Several weeks back, Joystiq obtained pictures from a Far East technical online community which were proposed to show a size-zero variant of the actual 360 system board. Include to this the quotation from Steve Ballmer which referred to “more form factors in the future,” as well as a recent Microsoft employment offer with regard to an Xbox 360 Motherboard Design Engineer, and Pachter’s proposal appears much more than a possibility.
Fresh designs tend to be at the core of the video game sector. Recently, Sony launched a leaner model of the PS3 this together, with a big marketing push, was able to significantly enhance consumer attention for the system. The Xbox 360 has already been on the marketplace for nearly five years and might be looking slightly tired, and it would certainly make good sense for Ms to pursue a corresponding strategy to overlap with the release of Project Natal this ‘holiday’.
We’ve reported this before but this seems more concrete evidence….. Of course what I’d really like to see ia a hardware upgrade along with the sleek new case… this seems less likely…
What do think? Will a slimmed down size zero 360 revive the comsoles reputation? Or are the PS3 fanboys rubbing their hands and saying ‘told you so’?
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Let me know . . . (PS3 fan-boys need not reply 
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Steve
