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XBox 360 MTV Ad and Possible Images
hollismb writes "A teaser commercial for the upcoming unveiling of the XBOX 360 on MTV had been released on the internet, and you can watch it here. In addition, an image was released on OurColony yesterday, that many feel my be a partial image of what the new console will look like. If true, this seems to go against the white console report from a couple weeks ago." There are even more possible photos available via a Voodoo Extreme post.
Engadget has pics of the entire console here
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If MS was copying Apple I would expect better design. People likened the PSP to the iPod. Shiny does not mean well designed. Now people are comparing the Xbox 360 to the Power Mac. Apple design doesn't start and end with covering everything with brushed metal.
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I just watched the commercial, go to here on the Madden site and you can choose low or hi bandwidth. Looks pretty impressive.
As for the console issue, the VE pics look more realistic to me (as to what it may end up looking like). But we'll just have to wait and see.
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I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released.
Nobody "unveils" a mock-up at E3 (or as an infomercial on MTV). Think about what you're saying - it doesn't make any sense. The whole point of an unveiling is to show people what to look for when the product starts appearing on shelves.
Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox?
Yes, when they first started talking about it. Not when they finally had the unveiling. MS has been talking about the 360 for a while, and quite a few potential mock-up shots have been floating around the net since then.
They never had the big metal X at E3 that I recall. I believe they had it at GDC, but that was when they first announced that they were developing a console, not when they unveiled it to the masses.
Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.
The Xbox 360's controllers will be wireless. The one port that there appears to be is for backward compatibility with any original Xbox controllers you might have. (My guess is it's so that you won't have to buy a second controller for two player games - I'm hoping it's not suggesting that they're doing away with the controller pack-in altogether.)
Note that I'm not saying these pics are definitely the final design - although I am convinced that they are (OurColony is definitely affiliated with MS - that's known - and they're not going to be releasing pics of an unfinished console). But what MS does finally unveil on MTV and then at E3 will definitely, positively be the final design you will see on store shelves at the end of the year. E3 is not the time to be showing mockups.
Xbox360games wrote a good analysis of what the different components could mean. It looks like the left side of the box is meant to stand upright, which means it's engineered to allow the heat to come out the right side. (Ever used one of those rotating lcd monitors?)
Games that used Windows CE have a Windows CE logo on the back of the box, and they display a Windows CE logo on the "Produced by or under licence..." screen. At least, I've seen games with one or both of those things.
But very few games actually used Windows CE, it was mostly a couple of Windows ports, most stuff used Sega's own libraries instead.
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