Comments on: Improved heat sink found in new HDMI Premium Xbox 360

By: John M. Brandon

John M. Brandon — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:01:09 +0000

Do you want to skip the $200 charge that Sony put on your damaged PS3 and get it back to working condition? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W1R0vwXkdc

By: jason lee

jason lee — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:05:09 +0000

dear Ben

I saw you on T.V. 5 weeks ago on game head at spiketv.com. I dying to know when will your Xbox 360 Portible will be published. I mean It was cool of you making that Portible, I would do anything to get
one. Keep going on your cool gaming designs and inventions, continue rocking ben

Jason Lee

By: crf

crf — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:44:59 +0000

im still new to the xbox 360 and about to get one (elite), but why is it better to have a newer heatsink? does it overheat less?

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:41:10 +0000

Only one bad thing about the new Premium 360′s with HDMI…and I found this out through the purchase of two consoles from different stores, just to verify. The hard drive, vented plastic on the ends of the console, and gray plastic on the bottom side of the controller are all the color of the retail HDD–that cheap looking, dull gray. This in place of the shinier, dark gray color, with silver lining the HDD.

I am not one to void my warranty by taking apart a console and painting it, but the change to making the Premium console look more like the Core is much less aesthetically pleasing. I am wondering if both of the consoles I bought were just a huge fluke or if Microsoft has changed their production for some reason. Either way, I’m disappointed. Obviously the console plays fine, it just looks shittier. Have you heard anything about this?

By: John Brook

John Brook — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:14:56 +0000

I have an elite and had the RED RING go off on me
When I ejected the disk it was extremly HOT
After it cooled down it’s OK since
I did have game boxes stack on either side which likely contributed by reducing air flow.
In the past couple of weeks I canabilized a 12v cooler and made a XBOX air conditioner

By: Laner

Laner — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:06:18 +0000

“This is the same company that made itâ€™s breakthrough revolutionary success after ColecoVision, Atari, Commodore 64, and the entire gaming industry crashed and burned in 1983-84.”

Mild nitpick… the Commodore 64 attained it’s success *after* the 83 videogame crash. If anything, Commodore benefited from the crash more than just about anyone else out there.

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:46:26 +0000

What’s really ironic about Nintendo this generation is the fact that they have made no real progression forward with the Wii, besides a gimmicky controller, which basically amounts to recycled Power Glove/Duckhunt Gun technology. I love Nintendo and their first party games as much as anyone, but it’s getting stale. Now they are just pumping out the same rehashed repackaged games for last few decades now. Do they sell? Absolutely, but eventually the franchise cash machine will run dry as all franchises eventually go stale.

It’s really ironic for the simple fact that Nintendo of all game companies should know the outcome of recycling old crap over and over. This is the same company that made it’s breakthrough revolutionary success after ColecoVision, Atari, Commodore 64, and the entire gaming industry crashed and burned in 1983-84. There was only so much New Pac Man (this time the background is blue) an avid gamer could swallow.

I love Nintendo and they deserve credit for where we are now, but I expect better from them. The NES and SNES were outstanding systems that catered to everyone just like the Wii, except they were the cutting edge systems for their time, unlike the Wii. It just seems like Nintendo has given up and thrown in the towel after the N64 and now they are just milking the “we are the family kid oriented console that doesn’t have to have current technology or games.” What happened to the cutting edge Nintendo that I used to know? Why not make a real next gen system with mature games along side their own first party franchises?

By: TriggerHappy

TriggerHappy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:42:59 +0000

A major point many Wii detractors forget is that if you don’t have an HDTV the graphics gap between the Wii and the 360/PS3 is much more narrow. I wasn’t able to quickly find a number for how many households worldwide or in the US have HDTV, but I found reports that only 8% of European homes have HDTV (http://www.screendigest.com/reports/mini/2007/european_tv_homes_get_hd_ready/07-5-yp2/view.html) and that by 2010 an estimated 22% of homes worldwide will have HDTV (http://www.screendigest.com/reports/06highdeftv/readmore/view.html), so I’m estimating 10-15% or less worldwide right now.

Once HDTV penetration is higher, I would hope that Nintendo adds better HD support to their next console. For now, my biggest gripe with the Wii is the lack of online community support.

By: mick

mick — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:09:42 +0000

@ ChrisS no it is not the ps3′s fault for gta’s delay take 2 was never going to release it this year but they where having financial troubles and yada yada yada. http://playstation3ws.blogspot.com/ i know the blog master verywell and his sources even more

By: bicostp

bicostp — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:26:12 +0000

@Bruce: “Consumers are basically buying the console for the roughly 20 exclusive games each console gets a year, with the rest being third party cross-platform jobs” ? Nintendo’s just as, if not more, guilty. All the top selling and most anticipated games are first party Nintendo franchises. (Zelda, Mario, Metrod, Super Smash Bros…) The rest of the library is shovelware and half-arsed 3rd party titles. It happened on the Gamecube, and it is happening again on the Wii.

“in 5 years time, theyâ€™ll look dated compared to what the best PCs of the age can do.”? Of course, because technology moves forward. The Wii was outdated on its launch day. By the end of this generation Wii owners will be like the kids who still had Atari 2600s in 1992, while their friends had gone to the SNES and Genesis.

“Why would a consumer want to spend $600 on a console which will be outclassed by a PC in about 4 years, when he could buy a gaming PC rig, which he can upgrade over the years to keep it up to date?”
Because gaming PCs are black holes for money. The latest and greatest graphics card comes out only to be outclassed by its sucessor in 6 months. My friend switched to PC gaming a year ago, and has already poured enough money into his computer to buy 3 or 4 top model PS3s and it still can’t run everything he wants it to.

“The wii is adding innovation, and it is clear that the general public want innovation, not just graphical upgrades.” So by that logic they should come up with a new way to drive cars, since that’s barely changed in 50 years? People want innovation, not newer, more efficient, more powerful cars!

I still think the only reason to buy a Wii is for first party Nintendo titles. Other than that you should go with a 360 or PS3. (Especially now that you can take *any* old 360 and get a free replacement if it breaks, and the price of a new one is less than $50 more than a Wii.