Trigger Finger

I can’t make any claims for the validity or source of the claims but it’s the time of year for pointless yet wild speculation.So not wanting to be left out, here is an interesting batch regarding the 360 (Yes the English is crap!)

-Xbox 360 Premium Pack price is going to drop $100 in October.
-Xbox 360 Core Pack price is going to drop $80 in October
-Gears of War is going to be released the last week of October with an huge marketing campaign at global scale.
-HD-DVD for the next month of September. Add-on that you can connect to the USB 2.0 port. It is going to be priced for $100
-New HardDisk Drive with 100GB of storage, price and date not specified.
-Webcam “My Eye on you”, for the month of September with a price of $50 without game and $75 with a game.
-Xbox Backward compatibility list is going to be updated in June with 50 new titles
-The capacity of the Xbox Live Servers is going to be 5 times more than the actual servers
-Halo 3 is going to be in the market the next month of March, in E3 we are going to see the first videos.
-Possibility of an “urban game” that could be GTA. Microsoft is working on it and this isn´t a joke.
-A possible price drop in Xbox Live Gold or it is going to be free because they are going to get money with promotional advices.
-From the next month of October we are going to change some records in some games for “MSpoints”.
-Paramount Pictures and Microsoft has anounced an agreement where Paramount is going to provide HD content to Xbox Live.
-NBC has signed with Microsoft for the possibility of see the online tournaments like an sports live retransmisión.
-Aliance between Epic and Microsoft for exclusive content in Xbox Live.
-Creation of a Dashboard for kids.
-A new service in june: Download and play.
-Rare is working in Kameo 2 since before the release of Kameo. Is going to come before than expected.
-MS is working for an upgraded friend list (until 200 contacts)
-Virtual Console with Sega games before the next month of October
-An spectacular upgrade in the number of Xbox Live Arcade games in the next months.
-New look for Dashboard.
I reckon the price drops are a given for the month before the PS3′s latest release date of November. Likewise Gears of War is likely to be the killer-app cum anti-PS3 weapon of choice.

The 100GB Hard Drive would be nice, but I bet the price is insane compared to the actual cost of a bog-standard 100GB PC hard drive (Circa £40 at the moment!). I don’t think anyone really cares about the web-cam as there will be little game support for it and it offers little apart from video-chat without game support.

Lots of Live / Dashboard / Content enhancements are also a given over the months before the launch of the Sony Online service, lets just hope that content is better than a couple of Natasha Doginfield videos!

I’m sure this is just the start of the E3 madness, some of the above are bound to be announced as they are so incredibly obvious, but I will also be dissapointed if this is the limit of the announced 360 plans, I want games galore preferably including Operation Flashpoint 2, some kind of Forza 360, and something new franchises that aren’t rehashes of old games.

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