First Xbox 360 pic?

whitetrash

Seen on Engadget

Giblet

Seen on boards.ie 5 hours before

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=248647

whitetrash

Whoops

Giblet

Ah don't worry, I always get ze scoops.

Giblet

po0k

It looks like a bastardised Mac.

Stormfox1020

Is that the confirmed one?

TerrorFirmer

It looks like a mutant iPod

Ciaran500

Zapp Brannigan

1 controller port? wtf are they playing at?

quarryman

wireless innit?

grimloch

great, battery related trouble im sure

i assume the port allows a good few controllers to be used?

petes

/me likes. Although I will buy Revolution if its out first. And yes Im basing that on absolutely nothing apart from Nintendos track history.

Zapp Brannigan

i think the Xbox is gettin the jump on every other console, by being out 1st. im not a 100% on that though.

petes

Well they will be madly overpriced at release with usually feck all games so Ill be giving them a couple of months each to see haow they pan out. Its going to be exciting to see what Nintendo come up with.

Zapp Brannigan

i hear ninty are gonna support online play with the revolution, so thats good news.

Kazaanova

Sexy.

Combined with:

From Ourclony.net, it has to be real.

Kristok

looks better than the first xbox but not great,

Kazaanova

Ciaran500, where did you get your picture? It looks like a 3D rendering of it.

Kazaanova

Also I don't think people realise how amazing this it, look how small it is. The disc tray takes up nearly half of it, so its not going to be much bigger than 2 CD's.

Tusky

I think it looks great but I dont really like the concaveness.

Ciaran500

Kazaanova wrote:

Ciaran500, where did you get your picture? It looks like a 3D rendering of it.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8112/Xbox-360-Exposed/

It looks like a picture to me.

I think the renders (like the one Giblet posted) of it make it look smaller than it is.

Kazaanova

Yeah I think it might be a picture too. It looks more like the Ourcolony one than the other one, and the Ourcolony one is definitely a picture.

Praetorian

Well I think it's the prettiest looking console ever, but in all honesty who gives a **** what it looks like. It's whats under the hood that counts.

KTRIC

They should have just cutted to the chase and called it the "SEXBOX"

You know it makes sense

monkeyfudge

It looks a bit like a Sky+ box that's been left out in the sun and melted a bit.

daveirl

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Ciaran500

Cause the Xbox failed in Japan cause it was ugly :rolleyes:

Kazaanova

Anyone have any guesses about what the big power button could be used for?

KTRIC

Kazaanova wrote:

Anyone have any guesses about what the big power button could be used for?

This is just a wild wild guess, but I'm thinking it may be, just maybe, a POWER BUTTON !!!! :eek:

dceire

Slurms wrote:

i think the Xbox is gettin the jump on every other console, by being out 1st. im not a 100% on that though.

Any indication as to when it’ll be released?

Kazaanova

I think its around Christmas.

You might wonder why is that power button so big? Well, because it will do much more than just indicate the console's power status...

BloodBath

/me likes. Although I will buy Revolution if its out first. And yes Im basing that on absolutely nothing apart from Nintendos track history.

I dunno. I think Nintendo are pretty screwed in this console war. I seriously doubt they have the technology to challenge sony or microsoft. Look at the DS. Sure it's a nice handheld but it's clearly inferior to the psp. Nintendo used to be about inovation. Now they just constantly rehash old styles and come up with nothing new. They aren't the groundbreakers or technology leaders like they used to be. Another rehash of mario and zelda will only attract the same loyal Nintendo fans.


BloodBath

Kazaanova

Unless Nintendo do something really special I cant see them doing any better than they did with the Gamecube.

The PS3, is going to be on top, no questions there. The 360 will be second again, but will probably do a lot better than the Xbox did. And where does that leave the Revolution? Last.

However, if the Revolution is cheaper than the 360 and PS3, and is backwards compatible I'll be getting it.

Just wondering, where pictures of the Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube leaked on the net before they came out?

Retr0gamer

they look kind of rendered to me. If it is the new console then I think it looks very nice. It's also nice and small so it will appeal to the japanese gamers since the first xbox took up half a typical japanese house. I'll be getting one because Hironobu Sakaguchi will be developing exclusively for it. Still I'd love to see what the hell nintendo are up to.

rabbitinlights

That side shot looks like its says 40GB on the black part?

Thraktor

BloodBath wrote:

Look at the DS. ... [Nintendo] just constantly rehash old styles and come up with nothing new.

Am I the only one who's missing the logic in this post? Of all the console manufacturers I really fail to see how one could single out Nintendo as having a lack of innovation.

rabbitinlights wrote:

That side shot looks like its says 40GB on the black part?

Yep, as far as I know the hard-drve is sold seperately (to cut costs) and that would likely be the place in which you insert it. The fact that the display shows the capacity is a good indicator that they'll be bringing out hard drives in a variety of sizes, or perhaps that they're simply going to allow you to slot in a standard IDE or SATA drive. I wouldn't bet on the latter though, as it may well scare off less technically minded users.

Kazaanova wrote:

However, if the Revolution is cheaper than the 360 and PS3, and is backwards compatible I'll be getting it.

Nintendo consoles are generally realeased at a cheaper price (or at least have been for the past generation or two), and they've already announced backwards compatibility.

Kazaanova wrote:

Just wondering, where pictures of the Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube leaked on the net before they came out?

Nope, but then again each of them were unveiled in the standard E3-press-conference way of doing things, Microsoft is taking a different approach this time using MTV et al to try and spread the hype to the masses directly.

monkeyfudge wrote:

It looks a bit like a Sky+ box that's been left out in the sun and melted a bit.

Just what I thought when I saw it (well, not about it melting in the sun specifically, but being a deformed Sky+ box), I just hope they don't rip off the whole circular-light-movey-thingy (that's a technical term, by the way) as well, that'd knock it just the wrong side of blatant plagarism.

Peteee

Have to say i like it. Must see it in the flesh. Looks pretty small too

Loobz

I like the look of it tbh. Will wait a few months after release to see how it fairs out.

Giblet

Retr0gamer wrote:

they look kind of rendered to me. If it is the new console then I think it looks very nice. It's also nice and small so it will appeal to the japanese gamers since the first xbox took up half a typical japanese house. I'll be getting one because Hironobu Sakaguchi will be developing exclusively for it. Still I'd love to see what the hell nintendo are up to.

They are renders, of the actual xbox2

Ciaran500

Some are renders, some are pictures.

Kazaanova

I'm starting to have my doubts about this. Diddnt it start on a GTA forum?

Where does the HD go?



In that slot on the right hand side, or on the left hand side where it says "40 GB"?

Ciaran500

I've been thinking about this for a while and can't figure out what the 40gb HDD is for. Its to big to be purely for Live content.

Mabye there going for the media centre idea.

Zapp Brannigan

maybe theyre gonna have like a download games feature?
(stupid idea, but its all i could think of)

vishal

didn't they say that you will be able to download demos via live? demos are very big nowadays and most are in the 400-700 mb mark.

also i think it is hard to buy hds that are less than 40 gb now anyway.

Kazaanova

They need at least 40GBs. If they're saying that pretty much every game will have downloadable content, they need to facilitate the people who have a lot of games and download content for each one. If they're gonna make downloadable content a BIG thing, they need a BIG HD.

Although, if they're making such a big deal out of downloadable content, why even sell 360's without HD's? Unless every 360 has a build in HD, and the better ones have external ones too.

sprinkles

BloodBath wrote:

I dunno. I think Nintendo are pretty screwed in this console war. I seriously doubt they have the technology to challenge sony or microsoft. Look at the DS. Sure it's a nice handheld but it's clearly inferior to the psp. Nintendo used to be about inovation. Now they just constantly rehash old styles and come up with nothing new. They aren't the groundbreakers or technology leaders like they used to be. Another rehash of mario and zelda will only attract the same loyal Nintendo fans.


BloodBath

Are you seriously trying to say that there's nothing inovative about the DS? :rolleyes:

Perhaps you haven't seen the TOUCH screen. For me sony just love to take the nice safe option and thus fail to come up with anything that really challenges the way we play games (eye toy the only exception). I mean I wouldn't be surprised if they stick with their (IMO) inferior controllers for their 3rd console. Ninty constantly challenge the market with new means of interacting with the consol. Conga's anyone? And their controllers have always been a step ahead of the pack because they aren't afraid of change. Who introduced the rumble pack? The analogue stick? The touch screen?


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Rew

Kazaanova wrote:

I'm starting to have my doubts about this. Diddnt it start on a GTA forum?

Where does the HD go?

In that slot on the right hand side, or on the left hand side where it says "40 GB"?

Clips on the end AFAIK:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000913041045/

That is a real pic. What you see is the hard drive mounted on the end of the Xbox 360. Remember it stands up right, this is the top, when standing up right. The picture is shot from the same angle as if you were reading the side of a cereal box but looking at the top.

Makaveli

monkeyfudge wrote:

It looks a bit like a Sky+ box

First thing I thought when I saw it.
Far more aesthetically pleasing than the Xbox anyway.

rainbow kirby

All it needs is go-faster stripes.

po0k

Ciaran500 wrote:

I've been thinking about this for a while and can't figure out what the 40gb HDD is for. Its to big to be purely for Live content.

Mabye there going for the media centre idea.

40Gig is nothing. It's piddle.

There was an 8-10Gig hdd in the XBox, save games, cached game data and MP3s etc. was kept on it. Optical media is only so fast, some larger games will benefit from having a nice chunk of disk space onto which to dump data during play. The game disc will probably be regularly accessed in the background, copying data to the hard-drive for upcoming scenes, levels etc. to speed loading.

And as mentioned above, downloadable content is going to feature majorly in this generation of consoles.