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XBox 360 MTV Ad and Possible Images

Posted by Zonk on from the so-tired-of-speculation dept.

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.

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  1. Madden by BoomerSooner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd rather see the Madden commercial than the XBox360 commercial. If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive. The console could look like a turd for all I care (hell it may keep it from getting stolen).

    1. Re:Madden by Jorkapp · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive.

      This is what is wrong with the whole gaming/computing industry as a whole. Specifications are always put out before anything else, thus further perpetuating the "Megahertz Myth".

      We've all seen the XBox2/360 specs. Sure, dual Power 970 processors is nice, but dual processors mean nothing if nothing decent is being done with them. I would rather see gameplay videos, screenshots, etc showing the console in action before I see specs. Much the same as I would rather test-drive a car before I look under the hood.

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    2. Re:Madden by MBCook · · Score: 3, Informative
      IT'S UP

      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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  2. removable hard drive? by flawedgeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That image doesn't look like a hard drive carrier, it looks like a pull-out handle.

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  3. Shameless copying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    This is a blatant example of how Microsoft copies everything from Apple and the open source community.

    As everyone knows, Apple came out with the Apple Pippin in the mid-nineties, which, like the XBOX360, was a games console running a stripped down desktop OS.

    Worse still, they're also copying IBM, who everyone knows, is one of Linux's biggest contributors. They're including IBM's processor technologies in their hardware, just like IBM did in the mid-sixties when they came out with their own, giant, garage-sized, games console. Think it's co-incidence?

    Well, get this: IBM's huge, EBCDIC-spouting, multiuser games console was called the System/360. Microsoft couldn't even hide how unoriginal they're being by at least calling their pathetic attempt something different.

    1. Re:Shameless copying by mister_slim · · Score: 2, Informative
      No, MS is copying Nintendo. Have you seen the DS or maybe the platinum GC?

      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.

  4. Better pics... by kajoob · · Score: 4, Informative

    Engadget has pics of the entire console here

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  5. Odd... by rmarll · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone in the ad is outside.

  6. better pics by DietFluffy · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/36059/Xbox- 360/

    http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/36060/Xbox- 360/

    http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/36061/Xbox- 360/

  7. In the future, all information will be s l o w l y by superultra · · Score: 4, Insightful

    released.

    I can't believe how well this is working for Microsoft. They (or whomever they chose as their PR company for Xbox2) are genius. Nintendo's strategy has always been to say absolutely nothing about anything, and then just show it. Sony has been a little more forthcoming, but it's in a more matter-of-fact PR release.

    But Microsoft has been using ourcolony to v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y release information, literrally droplets of information. Instead of getting one big bang where they unveil the console on May whatever, they're getting 20 big bangs, one almost every day up to that date, where all the game news sites are reporting (no exaggeration), "We think we might have seen the Xbox360 power button!"

    Need proof? Go look at the number of headlines in games.slashdot that discuss the Xbox. And isn't it interesting how many of these end in a question mark? Really and truly, we don't know a damn confirmed thing about the new xbox, and yet Microsoft is getting at least one Xbox "major" news item circulated on the gaming sites every day.

    I'm not complaining. I'm as excited about the Xbox2 as anyone else. But I think what's more newsworthy is that Nintendo is still stuck in the Nintendo Power days of releasing information, Sony somewhere in the middle, and Microsoft is really using the 86400second internet news cycle to their advantage.

    Milk away Microsoft, milk away.

  8. Xbox wins! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it absolutely amazing how Microsoft has the gaming world captivated with titbits about the Xbox 2 - whereas nobody cares about the Playstation 3 or Nintendo Revolution.

    I wonder how much this has to do with Sony's PSP - they're still advertising it and probably don't want the PS3 to tread on it's coattails. It would be ironic if the success of the PSP is what kills the PS3 - just like the Gameboy became Nintendo's focus and contributed to the downfall of the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube (because Nintendo's best console was the Gameboy, anything else they made was 2nd best).

    A company can only have one flagship product in a market space - and the PSP is definitely it for Sony.

  9. Mock up by dfj225 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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. Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox? Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.

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    1. Re:Mock up by badasscat · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

  10. This conversation will happen one day by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Uh, yes, I'd like to return this unit."

    "Why?"

    "Because somebody sat on it!"

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  11. the power button by bbkingadrock · · Score: 3, Interesting

    does anyone think that huge power button looks even remotely real? look at the edges of it where it would sit in the unit, there does not appear to be any bevel or seam of any sort.... looks to me like it was simply enhanced with Adobe Photoshop(R) photo editing software

  12. Wait a minute... by Taulin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see the marks where the Phantom stickers were taken off...what's going on here?!?

  13. xbox360games by Sludge · · Score: 2, Informative

    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?)

  14. Re:Will The Xbox 360 Make You A 3 Time Loser? by Fred+Or+Alive · · Score: 2, Informative

    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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