Black Xbox 360 w/ HDMI, 120GB HDD @$479.99US Confirmed  

Via Kotaku:



Great news overall, I'm glad all that rumormilling turned out to be true. I may actually try to sell my 360 to get the new one, mainly because I'd like the HDMI for Dolby TrueHD for my (white... damnit!) HD-DVD add-on. (and no I don't have a TrueHD capable receiver YET, but I will once the price drops).

I will probably try to make good on my BestBuy replacement plan, being my 360 has had issues (it almost ALWAYS fails to boot the first try, sometimes with an E-74 error), but I doubt they'll let me pay the difference for a different SKU.

Also, I honestly don't know if this includes the die shrink or not. No one has mentioned it yet, but hopefully it does.

I hear you... overall I'm more intrigued by the prospect of a bigger HDD than the HDMI itself, although it doesn't interest me for getting the most out of my HD-DVD add-on (once I pick up an HDMI capable TrueHD receiver anyway )

But for new buyers this is a nice option, especially with strong rumors that a premium price drop is in the works as well. Additionally, HDMI on the unit would enable DVD upscaling for people who don't have/want VGA.

Finally, as I mentioned in the OP, we don't know one way or the other if this includes the die shrink, but if it does... that's a big plus as well.

Personally though, I'm kind of mad it's black, I really like the white 360.

For once I'm taking an editors comment at face value (which I'm assuming you didn't miss in the OP).

He says they don't post fake stuff in their April issue, and I choose to believe him. Whether or not I come out looking like a moron later is a different story

At worst... you'd have to re-download them.

Live purchases are tied to your gamertag account, just clear the old drive (if you planned on selling it) and re-download everything to your new drive.

The only concern should be saved game files.

ahh... thanks for that rdank, I was unaware of that issue.

Granted, I don't remember a time in recent memory that I was on my 360 when my internet was down, but that's still a big issue.

However let's hope (no matter how futile) that if they're going to come out with a larger HDD add-on separately, that they're seriously looking into/already have a solution to transfer sensitive data. Not that it would surprise me if they didn't, but I'll be optimistic about that one

While I agree Frank... that's really just bordering on silly at this point.

Sure some people store things forever, and go download crazy (Hell I've had a TB of data on local drives at one time already, but I eventually clean them up).

However for most, the 20GB (13GB) is already enough, only those that make extreme use of downloadable media should ever run into a problem, and we'd be talking a LOT of downloads to max that out.

If you want interconnectivity, then you're already using WMP11 to stream audio/video to the 360, so that storage isn't an issue.

120GB is more than sufficient for the majority of users.