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Xbox360 Name Confirmed
63N1U5 writes "GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that British sources have confirmed that the next generation Xbox will be named Xbox360. Also included are details of the design features of the console, including a concave shape and platinum white finish."
It actually reminds me of the old sidewinders, which isn't too bad of a thing. AND (YES!) they finally got the idea that all those half-hazzardly placed buttons were soooooo annoying. I might be able to FIND these without having to look down all the time.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
So amidst no doubt a flurry of comments that will assume that Apple owns the copyright on white round design, I'm going to suggest that Microsoft is innovating at least in the way they are slowly unvieling the xbox whatever. Some of the the most successful game-based viral marketing campaigns have been Microsoft's (cloudmakers, I love bees), and they are doing it yet again with ourcolony. My prediction is that between now and May 12, Slashdot will have no less than a dozen news posts that hang on every new development revealed by ourcolony.net. Other game sites will probably have even more than that.
Brilliant.
Apple could learn a thing or two, as opposed to suing people for slowly releasing information.
"huge controllers" - Rectified with the Controller S, which has long been the standard controller. In fact, every game now only references this version, and the original has been long forgotten.
"superlarge system that doesn't really fit anywhere" - Sure, if your home entertainment system has no space for your average DVD player, then the Xbox will have nowhere to go. It's unlikely you'll have somewhere for a PS2 to go that wouldn't also accomodate an Xbox, except if you were planning to put the PS2 vertically.
"horribly buggy games" - Wah? KoToR? I guess you mean KoToR2, which was an awful game on any platform because of the decision to stop developing about halfway through the process. I know that there were problems with Xbox live and a few games (SC:PT I think had a serious lobby bug) but Live allows developers to patch games in serious circumstances, despite MS's wishes for it to not be used in this way. They'd rather it were used for expanded content and, you know, decent console multiplayer gaming.
"power adaptors which start house fires" - There actually haven't been any house fires yet. There have also been numerous notices for all that could possibly be affected by this extremelly rare fault to obtain a cable that may (or admittedly, may not) fix it.
"incessasnt cooling issues" - I keep my Xbox in an enclosed, wooden cabinet that sits in front of a radiator. I leave XBMC on auto temp control, and I can't hear it at all once I start playing video/music.
"DVD support" - Version 1 Xbox, from the evening after they started selling them here in the UK. It's played all media I've put in it - CD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R. Certainly no disc read errors for me.
"projector support" - Wasn't there actually a third party selling an Xbox themed projector? How could they be doing that if it wasn't possible to hook up a projector to the system, and surely projectors use the same hookups as regular display devices, or their usage would be incredibly limited.
I know, you put a disclaimer at the top of your post. But a disclaimer doesn't obviate the need to present truth in your argument.
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If the name is true, it looks like someone will be hearing from Microsoft shortly......
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Damn.... 2 pi radians = 360 degrees (character map pi didn't show up)
The controller images were gathered from ourcolony.net, the microsoft marketing for Xbox360 similar to ilovebees.com. So they probably real but of a prototype. And notice the lack of the back+start buttons where they normally are.