Xbox 360 v.2 Photo and Details Leaked
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Tech-blog Engadget made waves this morning by running a picture and details that purportedly reveal the long rumored version 2 of the Xbox 360. According to Engadget's anonymous source, the revised console is codenamed Zephyr and will sport the more efficient 65nm CPU we learned was in the works back in September '06
Even more exciting, the grainy spy photo reveals the addition of an HDMI port to the console. HDMI support will alleviate the headaches currently associated with getting a clean 1080p signal from the console with analog VGA or Component video. Last among the Zephyr upgrades will reportedly be the addition of a 120GB HDD, great news for fans of XBL's new movie download service, and a move we've been expecting for a while after various 360 Dev-Kits arrived in our offices sporting 80GB HDDs.
We contracted Microsoft representatives for comment and their official reply was not much of a surprise: "We have seen all types of claimed leaked photos like this show up online and as a standard policy we don't comment on speculative items." Regardless, the Engadget tipster promised we'd be seeing the upgraded console "soon."
The Engadget spy pic is not the first to purportedly reveal an HDMI equipped Xbox 360. In July '06 Xbox-scene.com ran a rather blurry shot of a supposedly naked 360 PCB (story). Comparing the two pictures, if they are, in fact, both real, reveals that the upgrade has been in the works for quite a while. The differing orientation of the Ethernet jack in relation to the video output can be attributed to the earlier image being mirrored.
