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Xbox 360 Updates at E3 2006.

Xbox LiveWith all talk of E3 coming closer and closer and people getting all worked up about The Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Revolution are some people forgetting about the wonderful machine called Xbox 360?

Well I certainly am not and some news has come my way which may or not be true but I honestly think that they are.

So take these comments with a small pinch of salt but don't be surprised if we see them come our way later this year.

Source: Meristation.com

- The premium pack will cost $100 less in october.

- The core system will cost $80 less.

- Gears of War will be out in the last week of October with a huge budget for the advertising.

- HD-DVD out in September $100.

- New hard disk (100GB) But no price and date available.

- Webcam "My Eye on You" (September $50-$70 bundled with a game).

- More than 50 new Xbox games in June compatible with Xbox 360.

- The bandwidth of the server will be increased by 5.

- Halo 3 will be in the market in March 2007, first video at the E3.

- Possible exclusive right for an "urban game" think Grand Theft Auto, Microsoft in working on it.

- The price of the Xbox Live Gold will be reduced or even free with commercials on the dashboard for October.

- The production of the Xbox 360 is increasing 2x in all the factories.

- Exclusive agreement with Paramount picture for High definition content for Xbox Live.

- Agreement with NBC, to see all the Xbox Live tournaments as a spectator.

- Agreement with Epic record for exclusive content in Xbox Live.

- New dashboard for kids.

- Kameo 2 is on the way.

- New feature, download and play is coming.

- Before October the Xbox 360 will be virtual console, playing all sega games.

- A lot of Arcade Xbox Live games are coming.

- New dashboard is coming.

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Jmann2k1 Free Xbox Live Gold?? 0 Apr 21 2006, 4:44 PM EDT by Jmann2k1
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Is anyone else skeptical about this? As of right now, Xbox Live is an excellent service, and it doesn't really bother me paying fifty bucks a year for it. However, I wonder if the service would suffer, in terms of quality, at all, if it was funded by advertising and external sources. If Microsoft could maintain the same level of service, and the advertising wouldn't be too intrusive (at least no more so than it is now), then I'd be all for it. I'd also like to know, however, if Microsoft would offer a refund to those of us that have paid for an entire year of service when they start giving it to everyone for free.

If you want to know if this last part is possible for them, it most certainly is. Go to Google, and look up the LG LRM-519. Search for information about it's internal program guide provided by Microsoft and how they were charging something like $250 for a lifetime subscription to it. Well, as it turns out, Microsoft decided to give this service away for free to everyone with the machine, and on top of that, gave full refunds to anyone that had paid for the subscription before that.

I have one of these machines, and it's awesome. It's just like a Tivo machine with a built in DVD Burner. But it just goes to show you that Microsoft is definitely willing to sacrifice a bit to help secure their place in the industry.

Also, the service has not suffered since Microsoft stopped charging for it. This provides me with a gleam of hope that Xbox Live could actually survive as a free service.
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