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Xbox 2 Concept Designs Leaked?
An anonymous reader writes "Two new images of what are reported to be Xbox 2 concept designs and logos , have recently been found on the internet. The designs are said to have been released by an anonymous tipster who claims to be part of a focus group for the Xbox 2. The anonymous member reports that he has more concept designs ready to release in the near future." Doesn't look to me like there's much credibility here, but they still look pretty.
The first link already got /.'d for the most part, but here's the Google Cache for the source site.
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Yes, Google does of the second link
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:rSxfAbK0Yu
pics on engadget: http://www.engadget.com/entry/9253838747326816/
Microsoft did hold an XB2 dev group at building 20 recently so maybe these are real.
A Coral mirror of the site that first published these. Couldn't get the article link to load on coral anymore, but this is where they got it.
The supposed Xbox 2 logo looks heavily "inspired" by Sony's recent Walkman logo, plus the Cingular logo, and a bit lile Microsoft's Office:mac logos (and the whole Aqua motif). Unless MS is going for the "me too" look, I don't think that one'll happen.
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The new logo (if it -is- the new logo) looks quite cool ; If this a hoax, still some pretty clever design of the logo there.
I don't like the current logo too much ; it doesn't really 'evoke an emotion' with me [/hippy shit]
you can see images of the "leaked" designs at: http://www.engadget.com/entry/9253838747326816/ they have pretty good bandwidth so will hopefully be less likey to be subject to the /. effect
Rather then mod you down i figured i should mention that i see images in the google cache
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RTF (cached) A. The images are on another server. Thanks to the Google cache we can see them through the site.
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Obviosly this is counter-intellegence being used by M$ instead of the Gov't! Just like when US military intellegence released fake photos of the stealth bomber and fighter in the mid to late 80s to counter a real intellegence movement that was going on! This is great for M$, they genereate buzz without comprimising their new design.
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From what I can gather, the methodology of their survey was to ask how many people modded their Xboxes in an online forum.
I would expect the sampling bias from this methodology to be tremendous beyond all comprehension.
Reader surveys in magazines don't sound much better either.
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There's a few reasons:
a) You don't want people plugging in all sorts of USB devices and then bitching because they don't work. Where are you going to get the drivers?
b) The physical USB plug is not well suited to consoles. It's not always immediately obvious which way up it plugs in - remember young children haveto be able to put these things in and out. Also, they don't tend to 'click' in all that well - you don't want something that comes unplugged easily. Finally, because they are quite small, they're probably not as robust as most console plugs.