UPDATE: Ah. It turns out that when Microsoft says the Xbox 360 slim is going on sale this week to an international audience in a keynote being broadcast live across the world, it actually means that’s only the case in the US. Microsoft UK has just confirmed that it goes on sale on 16 July in the UK, priced £199. Set your schedule back a month, folks!
The Xbox 360 slim we heard rumours about is official. It’s got Wi-Fi, a bigger hard drive, a smaller shell, and yes, it’s out this week.
Speaking at Microsoft’s E3 keynote, senior vice president of interactive entertainment Don Matrick revealed the new Xbox 360 slim by pulling it out of the case of a chunkier, older Xbox 360.
The new Xbox 360 is black, smaller, supposedly quieter (Not that that’d be hard), packing a 250GB hard drive, and perhaps the biggest selling point of all, comes with built in N standard Wi-Fi, so you don’t have to fork out for an extra peripheral if your hours isn’t made of CAT-5 cables. Microsoft says it’s “Kinect ready” but we wouldn’t take that to mean it’s got the new motion sensing kit built in, since it didn’t say so explicitly.
Matrick says the new Xbox 360 slim is shipping to retailers today for the same price as older models, and will be available this week. Hooray! Stay tuned, we’re hunting down UK specifics for the Xbox 360 slim now.
Out this week | £TBC | Microsoft
