More rumors revealed about Xbox 360 Ultimate

Heard about the Xbox 360 Ultimate and its neat accoutrements? While it’s too bad that it’s still just an unconfirmed rumor, it seems that we won’t have to wait long before Microsoft gets official word out, as Bill Gate himself could be the one to do the job come the opening of 2008 Consumer Consumer Electronics Show this January 7.

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Gunpei Yokoi‘s Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology may be working out all well and good for Nintendo, but the other competitors in this next-gen war – that is, Sony and Microsoft – seem to be sticking to their guns, coming out with bigger and better machines of gaming joy. Microsoft in particular seems to be getting ready to pull out one of its biggest guns, with more rumors surfacing about the Xbox 360 Ultimate SKU.

While we already know that this alleged new version of the Xbox 360 will sport an HDMI port as well as an HD-DVD drive, it seems that it will also come with other improvements to make more than just the graphics connoisseurs contented: built-in Wi-Fi, high definition audio output, cooler 65nm hardware and a near-silent fan. It will also have an enormous hard drive capacity, weighing in at around 320 GBs heavy, and will be able to take advantage of the Xbox 360 IPTV service that should be up at the time the Ultimate hits stores.

Of course, until we get official word from Microsoft (the rumor mill also suggests that Bill Gates himself will be revealing the Ultimate in his keynote speech next week at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show), we’ll have to file this one under the rumor category. But at least we won’t have to wait long for its existence to be confirmed, won’t we? Updates as we get them.