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Live Picture of the Next Xbox
n0ethics writes "A live picture of the Xbox 360 was leaked from Microsoft's Xbox 360 launch party held last night. The culprit appears to be a privately-owned cameraphone. Engadget Reports... Also included in the leak was the new Xbox Live headset, a new Xbox 360 controller and the new Eye-toy-ish Xbox 360 peripheral. Now the question is: was this intentional, or should we fear Bill?"
Looks like a standard Micro-ATX case. Can't really tell if it's much smaller than the current Xbox either.
My guess is they were trying to go iPod with the white, but gosh, it's hopelessly not sexy.
Microsoft has gone batshit crazy with astroturfing the Xbox 360 so far. (Ourcolony?) If the leak wasn't planned by them, I'd bet they at least don't really care.
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at least it's less bulky and ugly than the first one.
What was that? It's from Microsoft? Well, that is the ugliest piece of crap I have ever seen!!!
At least its a moderately original design, they realised their original Xbox model was too bulky, and have redesigned to make it smaller.
We all have to remember, it's not how it looks, it's how it plays that counts, and I hope thats what will make people buy it.
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'cos with any luck, that'll mean everyone'll be selling off their old XBoxen, and that means more Linux on the XBox for me. Seriously, can't wait 'til the old ones are $50 a pop...and I also can't wait to see Linux running on the new version.
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Let's see here...
Console: Current Wintel PC technology with Apple's sense of style.
Controllers: Nintendo already showed us that first party wireless is the way to go. Way to be #2 Microsoft!
Camera: Oh Look! It's Sony's Eyetoy in white!
Headset: At last, something borrowed straight from their own previous product. Doesn't look like any innovations were made here though.
And this is supposed to be the NEXT generation of console gaming?!?
At least they got the name right... XBox 360! Bringing gaming full circle to where it is today!
Number of pixels != quality. I've seen terrible photos at 6MP and great ones at 640x480. It's all about the quality of the lens, and there's really no room for a quality lens on a cellular phone.
First of all, it looks fine.
Secondly, who cares what it looks like? How good are the games?
I'm just amazed at the hate for Microsoft. The Xbox is the coolest console at the moment. It does pretty much everything right. Shouldn't we be a little excited by the Xbox 360? Isn't competition GOOD?
it's not like everyone and their dog are releasing white electronics products this year...
white as a product is plain ugly IMO.
reminds me of those godawful 50's 60's style garbage they used to sell.
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I'm guessing that's for the Xbox Live headset.
I call bullshit.
from tfa: Can't tell you how we got our hands on this image, but what you're looking at is a real live shot of the Xbox 360 that someone sneakily snapped with their cameraphone at Microsoft's Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles last night.
several things give it away.
1. the image quality is too good for a camera phone
2. they can't tell us, yet they go on to say where it was got and how.
3. the launch party/reveal was supposed to be live on MTV.
4. this looks really, I mean really, crap.
5. if it wasn't a public reveal, MS would have banned cameras and cellphone cameras.
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Thank you, Zymano, reporter from the future!
Nothing smacks more of fanboysim than crowing about which product is best even before it and its competitors have been released.
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