My hope for Bill Gates last CES keynote? Shhhh….

January 3, 2008

In case you didn’t know, this year’s CES will be Bill Gate’s last and the rumor is that one of his announcements  - alongside stuff about Surface and Sideshow  - will be a new Xbox with an internal HD-DVD drive.

If this is true, I’m afraid that new “feature” on its own isn’t going to cause much excitement.

I use my Xbox 360 as a media centre - streaming video, photos and music to it - just as much as I use it as a games console, and there are times when the noise of the console itself drowns out quieter pieces of movie dialogue. I had been thinking about getting at least one other Xbox 360, say, for the bedroom , but the thought of it howling away in the corner while Mrs T is trying to sleep means that idea won’t get off the ground.

No - what Bill needs to show us is an Xbox 360 that runs near-silent, like the PS3.

For that one feature alone, I would replace my existing Xbox 360 and buy another for the bedroom the moment it was released.

So, please Bill, get on stage, fire up that new Xbox and say “Listen to this….”

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