The Ian Bell Weblog

I posted yesterday at Digital Trends that Microsoft officially announced the Xbox 360 Elite. For $479 bucks you get a larger hard drive, HDMI connection and everything in black. But I have to wonder, what the heck makes this thing so elite? It still cannot up-convert DVD movies to 1080P and it doesn’t have a next-gen drive built-in. If Microsoft really wanted to make this Elite, they would have incorporated HD DVD, to at least go head-to-head with the PS3 and it’s Blu-Ray support. Heck, maybe partner with Logitech and throw in a fancy Xbox 360 remote control! The Elite is a disappointment to me.