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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.
I was thinking that it would look more like this
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One of the most important things that has made XBOX a somewhat sucess is the ability to mod it.
Now, if you are a student for example now you need only one machine and you get a DVD player, a computer and a game-console in one box. All for a few hundred american money (inkl. harddrive and modchip)
If they want to continue to grow they must make the XBOX2 "moddable".
The first link already got /.'d for the most part, but here's the Google Cache for the source site.
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Then it certainly looks much smaller than the current rendition of the Xbox. And from the sixe in the pics, it looks like it probably does not have a hard drive in it. Unless of course they went with a laptop drive, or something smaller then the standard desktop drive.
I must say, I don't like the silver too much. I like the black of the current game systems, they blend into the rest of the entertainment center as is.
it will be interesting a couple years from now (or next year?) when the next generation systems start coming out if this is what it really looks like. I don't believe for a second that this would leak out on accident, I would bet if these are real pics they were let out on purpose to see what reaction they get before they start making them for release.
Obviously Microsoft is stopping us from viewing TEH SEKRIT PIKTURS!!1 OMG It's a ploy
Yes, Google does of the second link
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:rSxfAbK0Yu
yet another opportunity for me to point out that i think slashdot should mirror a site for 5 or 6 hours at least immediately as they post the link. or maybe just the images. cachedot.org
you can't have everything, where would you put it?
pics on engadget: http://www.engadget.com/entry/9253838747326816/
They could very well be real.
After all, they're so ugly and tacky they just have Microsoft Design Department written all over. =]
Okay, at the moment the webserver is spitting out 503s, but let's consider the nature of this content. It's what the game console's *case*, a bit of molded plastic, might be made to look like. To be blunt, why does this matter? What gamer is concerned whether or not his game console has a red stripe or a blue stripe on it?
Not only that, but even the technical specs (which haven't, AFAIK, been finalized yet) *still* wouldn't mean that much, even if they're a titch higher than the competitors (especially given the least-common-denominator nature of ports). I've played some awfully good games on low-spec systems (Heck, Tetris and Sobokan can be played on character-based systems, and the two still beat a ton of modern games in terms of fun and hours of enjoyable gameplay.)
Even the previews that you get of games rarely have useful data in terms of informational content. No, it isn't until this beast is out and reviews for games start coming in that there's going to be really useful data about the XB2.
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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.
This is like pointing at a random article of concept art in a car manufacturer's library and saying "Introducing the new 2006 Chevy."
Could it be? Yes, but so are the other 1000 art pieces. Would it be? Highly unlikely.
A chance snapshot of a working Xbox2 prototype would be news, but this is Concept Art! Heck, I could go fireup LightWave and make you a new Xbox2 as well.
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I think that this is just normal MS marketing practice to "leak" out information of an upcoming product to keep it in the headlines. Makes it more interesting when it finally ships. Just look at Longhorn, XP, 2000 (NT5 anyone?) and the rest.
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Some Other Xbox 2 Concepts here
Slashdot has taken to posting the fake Xbox2 pic of the week now?
Xbox FS could be a genuine name, a few months back I had an email from a GameSpot affiliated company asking if I wanted to participate in a questionnaire about "next generation consoles" (I guess I forgot opt out of emails from GameSpot affiliates).
It didn't specify which next gen consoles in the email but most of the questions were about the next Xbox and what I thought of potential names, it also offered a potential logo which was like the current X logo but wrapped around a sphere.
The other names that I can recall were Xbox HD, Xbox 360 and Xbox 247. Xbox 2 and Xbox Next weren't offered as options.
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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One free chance to be innovative for once for MS ;)
then again, IIRC, they weren't going for a harddisk in there this time around (don't know for sure if this still stands) ; and this would make custom content (defenitely at the sizes mods come these days) nearly impossible.
How's that for a desgin concept? I love the xbox because for ~$200 I can get a reburbed unit, a mod chip and a cheap 100+GB HD. Now I have the ability to view my family pics, my ripped CDs, camcorder pics on any tv I have the xbox connected to...many thanks to the developers of XMBC. I just started adding Linksys NSLU2 devices as file servers and the whole setup is getting that much more smaller (footprint wise) and quieter. Now is MS wasn't so anal about the "Not Invented Here" cause we control the world and its $$$, they could have really made some major market share in TV/PC convergence.
I'm sure the xbox2 will be more locked down than so until espn 2k7 or Madden 2k8 really rocks over the current offers, its great to have the xbox.
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This is fake.
The XBox2 has a new connector for controller. This photo features traditional XBox controller connectors.
pictures of an external box? i want specs, internal pictures, no one cares about how it looks.
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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
Obviously you don't get out much. Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance? It's the experience of having a damn sexy car that feels damn good to drive. We, as a society, like pretty things (iPods, IKEA, Jaguar). Even *gasp* hardcore gamers love to make their PC pretty--in their own way--with neon lights and other mods.
If we didn't like pretty things so much, our economy would collapse pretty darn quickly. The presentation of the new X-Box is not necessarily a deciding factor, but it's definitely a persuasive one.
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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.
You can play a console game while running on the treadmill. Try doing that with a game that requires mouse & keyboard...
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Here,Knock yourselves out.
Cost, no force feedback, batteries (unless you integrate rechargeable batteries, which costs even more), and the opportunity to sell you their own wireless controller a couple months down the road.
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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.
Situation for ya. Not even hypothetical:
I am an American citizen. Good ol' USA. Or something. I have a job that has me living in South Korea right now. So I either have to own 2 of every hardware that reads region-encoded media to deal with all of my perfectly legally purchased DVDs and games, both here and back in the states, or I can just buy one hardware and force it to read all regions. A nice byproduct being that I can get this one hardware to also read more types of media, but that's neither here nor there.
In the near future my job could easily have me working in Europe. That's another region. So I'd either have to buy more hardware to deal with that region, or just use my regionless hardware that I already had.
Doesn't sound plausible? Just ask any US Soldier.
Eh, next we'll have the XBox - Revolutions
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We, as a society, like pretty things (iPods, IKEA, Jaguar).
IKEA is good design value-for-money, but it is definitely world class design. They are simply not in the game of groundbreaking nor exclusive design.
Why do you think people buy BMWs when they could simply mod a Honda Civic and get the same performance?
Indeed this is what you get when you buy IKEA. Modded second-class furniture that almost looks like first-class furniture. But it's good price-performance, so people buy it.