After posting a forum informing gamers of a couple of articles I had found recently whilst surfing the net; I came to the conclusion that if certain "Know It All" gamers haven't read about something; or heard about something; it's just not happening or it's to be verbally abused !
One of the articles read.. "A more dramatic and perhaps visible change will appear: T.S.M.C plans to begin producing the 'Valhalla Chip' which will be the foundation of the midcycle refresh of the Xbox360, thus called Xbox 2.5; or simply the Xbox 540 (360+180) in fall of 2009. We have learned that this new chip is apparently much more than a 'die shrink' and will end up as a 'system-on-a-chip design'. This change is likely to enable a redesign of the Xbox 360 casing and go towards a slimmer design. Much like what SONY did with the 'Gen 1' and the 'Gen 2' P.S.2.. There is also some interesting pieces of infomation that MICROSOFT is shopping for a more effective cooling solution. Several people close to the cooling industry told us that MICROSOFT approched them and asked for a better and cheaper way of cooling than what is being used in the 360 right now. Some may claim that the current 'Xbox 360' cooler is already as cheap as it gets, but we have no doubts that MICROSOFT will find a way to drop the cost price once again."
Another article reads.. "In the follow up to the news that the 360's internal hardware update will be changed to the 'Jasper' set up. There is now news that the Valhalla update mentioned is more than just a CPU and GPU on the same chip. 'T.G Daily' thinks that the Valhalla Chip will be at the heart of a complete hardware revision fall 2009. All that we know for sure is that the Valhalla chip will indeed be used in the 'mid cycle refresh' of the hardware, and that it is in fact an 'all in one chip'. Whether or not MICROSOFT will actually change the outer shell or not is unknown; the Valhalla hardware update could come and go without changing the outer look of the console at all.
Another article also insists that the 360 will be slimmed down and shipped as the Xbox 540 including the Valhalla chip fall 2009. A release marking the anniversary of the 360.
If this is true; this does NOT mean that the Xbox 540 will be MICROSOFTS successor to the 360. The Xbox 540 will just be a slimmer version of the Xbox 360.
It seems these articles were posted a few months ago ; but I thought they may be of interest to gamers (like myself) who are interested in MICROSOFTS consoles.
I apologise if this is old news.
Decades Of Gaming.
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