October launch for Xbox 360 elite in Japan
06 Jul 2007 15:30
Brace yourselves, enthusiastic gamers, a new product may well be on the horizon.Yesterday (Thursday), Microsoft announced that the advanced version of the Xbox 360 is to make its way onto the Japanese market this autumn, Reuters news agency reports.
The Xbox 360 Elite, which was first showcased in March this year, will be released in Japan on October 11th, priced at 47,800 yen (£192).
While the super-swish console - which comes complete with a 120-gigabyte hard disk drive, DDMI port and HDMI cable and has a black finish - was released in the US in April, no date for a European release has been announced, although it is surely more of a question of 'when', rather than 'if'.
A review of the updated Xbox 360 on Eurogamer describes the console thus: "The Elite [provides] a brilliant quality digital output that works beautifully on any screen you plug it into, be it a low budget £100 Chinese LCD monitor or a £3,000 Panasonic 1080p plasma. Microsoft has stripped away the copy protection nonsense that plagues PS3's digital output and made exceptional picture quality available to gamers no matter what kind of equipment they use.
"It's hard not to like the 360 Elite. Microsoft's 360 offering is simply a great console, and the fact that the Elite is undoubtedly the best version makes it hard to resist."
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