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Shrinking the 360 till it's Wii a little thing.

black doom | 5 days 10 hours ago | News | XBOX 360 Company Misc 
In this article they talk about the future of the Xbox 360, and how technological advancements could eventually shrink the Xbox 360 down to Wii size. In August, Microsoft will be releasing a new 65nm GPU, called Jasper, which will apparently put an end to the "Red Ring of Death." You might want to hold off a little longer on purchasing your 360 if you can.
Meet Jasper. He's a 65nm GPU, coming this August to a 360 near you. His name means "treasurer" in Persian, which -- let's be honest -- squares a little weirdly when you figure the codename for the new version of the 360 in which he'll ship is "Valhalla," i.e. Odin's crib, i.e. the battle hall "for those slain gloriously in battle." Slain gloriously in battle? I dunno about you, but considering the 360's engaged in the holy-holy of console fracas, is it really smart to be naming your baby-bet-the-farm-on after a mythic version of the afterlife? I'm just sayin'...

Back to Jasper. In conjunction with Falcon, the theory goes that we'll not only put the red-ring-o'-death to bed in totem, we'll finally get a version of the 360 that doesn't chug like an air compressor. Great to hear, if true.

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    Stainless | 5 days 10 hours ago | reply
    Wii is credited much for it's size, and now Xbox is going to take that idea? Great :/
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      Cdemon | 5 days 9 hours ago | reply
      Wow. Good job forming a stupid opinion from the title alone. They're talking about the GPU shrinking.

      Not much of a surprise, though.
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    Killdozer | 5 days 6 hours ago | reply
    Oh great. Another Wii following stratagy. When will Sony and Microsoft learn that they can't win.
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      slumpy monkey | 5 days 5 hours ago | reply
      What, making something small is "wii" following?

      Maby if they made all the technology shit and re-hash every game and make it a toy would be wii following. But not this.

      Also there talking about shrinking the GPU not the system....
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    Armed Rebel | 5 days ago | reply
    Lol @ 10 year old wii fantoddlers...
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    Final Blade | 4 days 22 hours ago | reply
    I propose either the title to be changed or people actual read the article.

    Anyway this isn't much of a surprise. I figure if MS does the right and support it for 10 years like sony has with their consoles, it could really help them out.
    Also this sounds great, hopefully it will come down in price again.
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    NastyButler | 4 days 20 hours ago | reply
    How is reducing the size of a console following the "wii" trend.
    I believe both the Playstation and Playstation 2 adopted such ideas before the Wii was released? Am I right? And who did Sony get the idea off.

    Just because the xbox is shrinking the console down to the Wii size, doesnt mean its trying to liken its own console to the Wii. Assumption stinks.
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    StarJet | 4 days 14 hours ago | reply
    I don't get the title at all.
    What has the Wii got to do with the 360 getting smaller? Since when was the Wii "Father of small consoles"?
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    black doom | 4 days 12 hours ago | reply
    It isn't but since the Wii is the smallest and I had to point it was getting smaller anyway, and the comparison seemed harmless at the time. Umm... I overestimate people that is all.

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