Xbox 360 to Get New Motherboard Next Year - Jasper

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According to Dean Takahashi from San Jose Mercury News, Microsoft plans to outfit the Xbox 360 console with a new motherboard code-named Jasper. Jasper is the successor to the board dubbed Falcon, which is inside Xbox 360s currently hitting the market. Jasper will have a new version of the ATI Technologies graphics chip based on a 65nm manufacturing process. Currently, the graphics chip of the Xbox 360 uses a 90-nanometer process. With the new version, the graphics chip will dissipate less heat, be physically smaller, and cost less to produce. The new Jasper board will also have smaller memory chips. Microsoft declined to comment on the story.

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[newtekie1]

Good, this is what I have been waiting for to buy a 360. Hopefully it will come with price drops as well. I would love to see a nice $100 price drop.

 

[JC316]

Good, this is what I have been waiting for to buy a 360. Hopefully it will come with price drops as well. I would love to see a nice $100 price drop.

TBH, I don't see that happening. There are too many expensive things in there to lower it by that much. You might see $250 and $300, but I doubt it.

As for that, they SHOULD have done that to begin with, that or made the case bigger. Glad to see that they are finally getting around to doing it.

 

[UAExDEVIL]

I just hope they won't make any exclusive Games for it because of the better GPU and CPU

 

[Azn Tr14dZ]

TBH, I don't see that happening. There are too many expensive things in there to lower it by that much. You might see $250 and $300, but I doubt it.

As for that, they SHOULD have done that to begin with, that or made the case bigger. Glad to see that they are finally getting around to doing it.

$250 and $300 is a $100 price drop. The Xbox 360 Pro is $350 w/ HDMI, and the Elite is $450...so when you said $250 and $300, then that's a $100+ price drop.