When is the next XBOX/PS3 etc due?

[DrR]

Feels like they have been out for ages, xbox 4 years +?

 

[Adam]

Talks of an Xbox Slim....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20000630-1.html

 

[sideways danny]

Feels like they have been out for ages, xbox 4 years +?

nov/dec 05

Still not feeling it's tired though TBH. Be nice to get a slim with blueray maybe

 

[RocketR]

360 is 5/6 years old!!! really. Holy s**t that is along time. There must be a ps4 /xbox 720 due out soon then lol.

 

[McBunny]

they both said 10 years so nowt due out yet

 

[Cookie]

360 is 5/6 years old!!! really. Holy s**t that is along time. There must be a ps4 /xbox 720 due out soon then lol.

360 isn't even 5 yet

 

[Brazo]

Talks of an Xbox Slim....

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20000630-1.html

Sweet baby Jesus, are MS gluttons for punishment, they have a box of a certain size that is guranteed to overheat and die. Making it smaller is even to me not the best idea! Surely this is a windup??

 

[PinkoCommie]

Sweet baby Jesus, are MS gluttons for punishment, they have a box of a certain size that is guranteed to overheat and die. Making it smaller is even to me not the best idea! Surely this is a windup??

By the look of it they've completly re-designed the motherboard and combined the GPU/CPU. The GPU is where a lot of the RROD problems come from. Maybe that'll fix the issues with overheating.

 

[Sym0n]

I doubt it TBH. A single chipset doing twice the amount of work in a smaller enviroment, I'd expect it to get much hotter. The fan looks like a decent size though and wasn't the RROD problem mostly due to them not using solder capable of withstanding the temperature being generated and turning molten, breaking the connection?

 

[ukaskew]

Still not feeling it's tired though TBH.

Agree, new gen of consoles = the same games with updated graphics. I like the longer time scales we've settled into, means we get a bit more creativity coming through as the consoles become established.

 

[RoryW]

I doubt it TBH. A single chipset doing twice the amount of work in a smaller enviroment, I'd expect it to get much hotter. The fan looks like a decent size though and wasn't the RROD problem mostly due to them not using solder capable of withstanding the temperature being generated and turning molten, breaking the connection?

Pretty much. Mostly down to leadfree solder. Can't be helped really since ita illegal for lead solder to be used.

In 2003 I was working for raymarine and our prototype units were failing at an alarming rate due to it. You'd have thought it would be all lovely and sorted by now.