Ok I got this from http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=669585 where the person said "Take these rumors with a very big grain of salt. It was from a Spanish site, so the translations may not be 100% accurate." However, it is fun to dream. Plus a lot of these make sense.
-Xbox 360 Premium Pack price is going to drop $100 in October.
-Xbox 360 Core Pack price is going to drop $80 in October
-Gears of War is going to be released the last week of October with an huge marketing campaign at global scale.
-HD-DVD for the next month of September. Add-on that you can connect to the USB 2.0 port. It is going to be priced for $100
-New HardDisk Drive with 100GB of storage, price and date not specified.
-Webcam "My Eye on you", for the month of September with a price of $50 without game and $75 with a game.
-Xbox Backward compatibility list is going to be updated in June with 50 new titles
-The capacity of the Xbox Live Servers is going to be 5 times more than the actual servers
-Halo 3 is going to be in the market the next month of March, in E3 we are going to see the first videos.
-Possibility of an "urban game" that could be GTA. Microsoft is working on it and this isn´t a joke.
-A possible price drop in Xbox Live Gold or it is going to be free because they are going to get money with promotional advices.
-From the next month of October we are going to change some records in some games for "MSpoints".
-Paramount Pictures and Microsoft has anounced an agreement where Paramount is going to provide HD content to Xbox Live.
-NBC has signed with Microsoft for the possibility of see the online tournaments like an sports live retransmisión.
-Aliance between Epic and Microsoft for exclusive content in Xbox Live.
-Creation of a Dashboard for kids.
-A new service in june: Download and play.
-Rare is working in Kameo 2 since before the release of Kameo. Is going to come before than expected.
-MS is working for an upgraded friend list (until 200 contacts)
-Virtual Console with Sega games before the next month of October
-An spectacular upgrade in the number of Xbox Live Arcade games in the next months.
-New look for Dashboard.
For example, the price drops would be reasonable considering that the original Xbox dropped in price by that much after only 6 months. Also, we know that HD-DVD drives are coming to the 360, we know that halo 3 is most likely coming in spring '07 to compete with a PS3 launch, it makes sense that Kameo 2 would be coming out since the first was very successful, back compatability updates sound pretty obvious, a new dashboard for kids would make sense if they want to compete with the revolution, etc. etc.
Lets face it, Microsoft is probably better than almost everybody out there when it comes to marketing and the timing and the pricing of almost all these rumored things would make complete sense. The only thing that I am not sure about is the download + play rental service.
-Xbox 360 Premium Pack price is going to drop $100 in October.
-Xbox 360 Core Pack price is going to drop $80 in October
-Gears of War is going to be released the last week of October with an huge marketing campaign at global scale.
-HD-DVD for the next month of September. Add-on that you can connect to the USB 2.0 port. It is going to be priced for $100
-New HardDisk Drive with 100GB of storage, price and date not specified.
-Webcam "My Eye on you", for the month of September with a price of $50 without game and $75 with a game.
-Xbox Backward compatibility list is going to be updated in June with 50 new titles
-The capacity of the Xbox Live Servers is going to be 5 times more than the actual servers
-Halo 3 is going to be in the market the next month of March, in E3 we are going to see the first videos.
-Possibility of an "urban game" that could be GTA. Microsoft is working on it and this isn´t a joke.
-A possible price drop in Xbox Live Gold or it is going to be free because they are going to get money with promotional advices.
-From the next month of October we are going to change some records in some games for "MSpoints".
-Paramount Pictures and Microsoft has anounced an agreement where Paramount is going to provide HD content to Xbox Live.
-NBC has signed with Microsoft for the possibility of see the online tournaments like an sports live retransmisión.
-Aliance between Epic and Microsoft for exclusive content in Xbox Live.
-Creation of a Dashboard for kids.
-A new service in june: Download and play.
-Rare is working in Kameo 2 since before the release of Kameo. Is going to come before than expected.
-MS is working for an upgraded friend list (until 200 contacts)
-Virtual Console with Sega games before the next month of October
-An spectacular upgrade in the number of Xbox Live Arcade games in the next months.
-New look for Dashboard.
For example, the price drops would be reasonable considering that the original Xbox dropped in price by that much after only 6 months. Also, we know that HD-DVD drives are coming to the 360, we know that halo 3 is most likely coming in spring '07 to compete with a PS3 launch, it makes sense that Kameo 2 would be coming out since the first was very successful, back compatability updates sound pretty obvious, a new dashboard for kids would make sense if they want to compete with the revolution, etc. etc.
Lets face it, Microsoft is probably better than almost everybody out there when it comes to marketing and the timing and the pricing of almost all these rumored things would make complete sense. The only thing that I am not sure about is the download + play rental service.
