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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.
Looks like it'll go really well next to an iMac :)
Neko
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!!!
where are the Xboxen 3 to 359?
And like a long list of celebrities including Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, Microsoft today decided to make the move from Black to White.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Check out the middle inner edge of the controller. Is that a headphone jack? I remember thinking how much of a badass addition that would have been to the original Xbox to have headphone ports on the controller in that same place.
Can you say "Dreamcast Copy"?
It doesn't look so bad. Of course its not a masterpiece of engineering, but Microsoft probably chose that safe white case to make it more appealing to an audience other than hardcore teenage gamers. My concern is that those paperwhite controlers are going to turn a disgusting brown as dirt and skin acids build up over a couple of months. Grey would have been a better choice, cause nobody is gonna want to touch the thing after a year of use.
Yeah, it's original if you've never seen a dell optiplex desktop case before. Otherwise this case design is pathetic.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Maybe I'm behind on the times, but that seems like one hell of a good picture to be taken from a camera phone.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
Exaclty, and I congratulate Apple for releasing this awesome Xbox killer into the gaming console market
one better than mcleodeight
Those aren't controller ports... those are memory card slots. There are no controller ports, because the controllers are wireless.
this smells like a planned PR scam to me. the pics are to hi-res and well-lit to be taken with some crappy mobile phone cam.
/* it's never to late to give up */
PR guy 1: "how can we promote our console to the /. crowd?" /.ers' days by painting our console white like apple" :-P
PR guy 2: "we could tell them that it is absolutely impossible to install linux on it."
PR guy 1: "good idea but we haven't released the console yet."
PR guy 2: "maybe we could brighten up
PR guy 1: "yeah that's great they'll be flaming us for days and talking about every aspect of our product and how it rips off this company and that company."
PR guy 2: "that and they'll be trying install install linux onto the system"
- - -
well it could happen
Some people believe 1-1=3 and for the sake of being politically correct, we should respect their differences
There's no subscription fee.
You get 2 games a month free.
The console itself is undersold.
But the wireless controllers run on proprietary Microsoft batteries which run out of power after 10h of use and you can obtain a new set for $30 from your local Microsoft Golden Partner dealer.
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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?
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.
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
Ps3 outperforms Xbox2
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.
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die