Microsoft - Xbox 360 Elite
The enhanced version of Microsoft’s successful gaming console has to realistically be marked down as a missed opportunity. On one hand it’s undoubtedly a powerful beast, and better equipped to go toe-to-toe with Sony’s Playstation 3 machine. But on the other, there was a real chance to seize the initiative here, one that Microsoft appears to have squandered.
The machine itself, to all intents and purposes, is an Xbox 360 with some welcome additions. Over the Premium version of the console, the Elite sports a 120GB hard drive compared with a 20GB device (comparing favourably to the PS3’s 60GB), and there’s an HDMI port on the back of the machine to allow easy and proper support of 1080p output (a connection that was picked up and optimised immediately when we hooked it up to our 52-inch 1080p test screen). Finished off in smart black, the list of enhancements stops right about there. (more…)
