RUMOR: Microsoft to Dramaticlly Re-Launch Xbox 360 By End of September

This is as big and dramatic as they come…and boy, this maybe Microsoft’s last ace up it’s sleeves.
After it’s recent price cut in the US as well as their new Xbox interface with a new dashboard in the new Xbox Experience and Avatars, you’d think that knowing Microsoft, they’d do something big. Well, you’d be right but even for Microsoft, this is big.
On Wednesday September 25th from 7pm East Coast time in the US (Thats Midnight here), in a deal with G4TV, Microsoft will dramaticlly relaunch the Xbox 360 in a big way.
The rumor is so big, we’ve decided to break into a handy list, after the jump.
- Microsoft have bought up to 5 hour’s TVtime from G4 to relaunch Xbox 360
- Anybody who has Live will be able to download the stream from Live (No, you didnt see things)
- New Xbox Experience to Launch on the Night
- You can run Sirus Radio through your 360 for a monthly fee with no extra hardware
- A new music service will be coming in the shape of either artist’s music (Radiohead etc) for a price or some gaming music (Halo, Gears of War) for free
- A new channel, Lib, will be added to the Xbox Experience but it’s not known what Lib is
- A preview of Grand Theft Auto IV: Episode One, Portal: Still Alive, a free Halo 3 map pack and a new Mass Effect expansion all to be released on Marketplace soon after the re-launch
- Assassins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2, a new shooter franchise from Rare, a new Conker and 2 new Halo games will be unveiled the same night (We assume this is Peter Jackson’s Halo Project and Bungie’s new Halo)
- All the games mentioned though have been given codenames (Apricot, Burden, Conker, Dramatis, Error, Fender, Gargoyle, Hiroshima, Ignorance, Jeremiah, Kyoto, London)
- 6 new Xbox Originals would be on the service exclusive to Gold Members on Xbox Live with Halo being free but it will only stand for memebers who have had their accounts for so long etc etc
Wow…
I will get this checked on throughout the afternoon but if this is true…incredible.
September 25th rumor. [VGChartz]
September 10, 2008 at 10:06 am
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