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Many sites are reporting that Microsoft is going to be upgrading the Xbox 360's CPU early next year, to make it cooler and have it consume less power. It's also going to be "potentially faster." Whoa! I just got a chill up my spine, and not in a good way. Imagine it's 2008, and you pick up an Xbox 360 game. You turn it over and it tells you that while it will run on a first-revision Xbox 360, if you really want the best performance you're going to need a third-revision Xbox 360. For a decent framerate, you're going to have to upgate. Tiered systems, intermittent upgrades: isn't that what you buy a console to avoid?
Microsoft Switching To Cooler & Cheaper Xbox 360 CPU [Voodoo Extreme]
Update: Commenter 'The Wreckard' and others saying this won't split the Xbox 360 product line are totally correct. Presuming this will lead to multiple versions of incompatible Xbox 360s is just silly. It won't—any more than the slim PS2s are a different product than the originals.
