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Elite Won't Replace Premium or Core Skus
As the day has progressed, more information about the 'Elite' has become available. GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that the other two 360 skus will still be available. The Elite is not replacing either of them. Interestingly, there's no word on a price drop for them either. Major Nelson's most recent podcast has several interviews and details about the new offering, which you may find informative. There's more analysis available, if you find that interesting: CVG wonders aloud who is going to buy this thing, while a Wedbush Morgan analyst mentioned to GamesIndustry.biz that he thinks this validates the PS3 strategy. "'It appears to me that Microsoft sees the writing on the wall - Blu-ray is going to win the format wars ... Ultimately, Microsoft will likely offer a Blu-ray drive with the 360 Elite, and I think consumers will be able to select based solely upon other drivers.' Pachter also believes that although the Xbox 360 Elite will register with early adopters of hi-def content, the current 20GB model will still be sufficient for many consumers."
The core doesn't have a headset, and comes with composite cables, not the composite/component of the premium & elite. That and... it's black. Once you go black, you never go back.
WTF are they smoking up in Redmond?
At first it seemed to be dope due to the green color. At closer inspect, though, it turns out that it's dollar bills...
where's the value in the Elite SKU?
If you believe in yourself, stay in drugs, drink your sku, and don't do milk, you'll go somewhere.
Sku you!
I don't work in the industry but I have to think that filling 9Gigs of data is a pretty impressive and expensive feet.
Also, 640K ought to be enough for everybody.
Death by sku-sku!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.