Maybe integrated power supply so it loses the external power brick.

Just found a pretty useful page here

I can only assume that my newest one is a Jasper… Haven’t checked though, so it could be a Falcon too. Can’t be 100%, but as it’s only 2-3 months old I’d guess at Jasper…

@ Blerk:
It’s only a couple of monthe old…

I have two. I also have another Elite sitting in a drawer that stopped working, giving me 2 red lights after a couple of minutes use (over heating) even after I turn it on from stone cold. I only meant to get my current one while the old one was getting fixed and then sell one of them, but I haven’t gotten around to doing it yet.

It really doesn’t come down to something as simple as overheating, it’s the constant hot / cold cycles causing thermal expansion / contraction that kill it. Ironically you’d be more likely to keep it alive if you kept it on 24×7.

tbh, at the moment, the temperature in my living room is dictated by my 360.

I have to keep it as cool as possible, because I’m convinced that the thing could ‘melt’ at any moment, with the recent hot weather.

I’d love to be able to not have to care about that like I can with most other tech hardware I’ve ever had…

By that I mean, if the Wii is waning next fall, there will be space in the market for a new ‘innovator’ as the correct business term goes. It may also work as a penetratively, as it’s cheaper than the Wii.

But the questions are, whether people are willing to adopt the Xbox brand – on this new casual basis, whether the Wii is still popular, and the rest if luck, down to word of mouth.

That I can see happening, a Xbox Natal like before but without hardware changes, just to the look of it really.

Bundle a 360, Natal plus 1 or 2 Natal compatable games and the warranty and your set.

“People who wouldn’t have considered buying a regular 360.

They are going to have a 360 (in a different form factor/case) alongside the Natal, as it’s own package with it’s own (console) name. They’ll advertise it as if it were a new console aimed at attracting the casual market the Wii is making so much money out of. The mums and dads will think it’s a new console, it’ll look much better than the Wii, it’ll be really cheap due to it being based on ’360 tech which costs Microsoft very little thesedays, and everybody wins.

At the same time they’ll release the Natal add-on for the regular 360 for people who already own the system. They can play the same games etc. The same way anybody with the natal console could go out and buy a ’360 pad and play all the other games. I suspect they’ll subsidized the cost of the natal itself with the casual hardware bundle, and probably rip off the people buying it as a standalone for the ’360.

The existing dashboard will change depending on if you have a natal plugged in or not, so again, if they unplug it and whack in a ’360 pad it’ll be exactly the same as a ’360 other than the form factor and (maybe) the media format it uses.”

/Joeys 1up

It’s so incredibly bloody obvious that fracturing the market with an incremental upgrade to the bast hardware specs would be a VERY bad idea.

Re-design and bundled Natal at a good price puts them in a good place for next year though if the software delivers.

Oh wait, it’s exactly what everyone with half a brain cell was saying rather than what 1up were making out to be the case.