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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.
That image doesn't look like a hard drive carrier, it looks like a pull-out handle.
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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.
Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
Engadget has pics of the entire console here
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http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/36059/Xbox- 360/
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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.
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.
I can see the marks where the Phantom stickers were taken off...what's going on here?!?