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The Xbox 360 Unveiled

Posted by Zonk on from the i-have-to-write-xbox-360-for-the-next-five-years dept.

You may or may not have caught the Xbox 360 unveiling on MTV Thursday night, but the internet will provide. A plethora of sites have photos, videos, commentary, specifications, and interviews about the new system. Your fellow readers have pulled together to provide links to: 1up.com, Joystiq, Gamespot, The BBC, CNN, NYT, Gamespy, Team Xbox, Voodoo Extreme, Anandtech, and eToyChest. The official Xbox 360 site opened last night as well for word straight from the source. For more official images Ourcolony.net has been 'solved', and now features an OurColony specific video preview. Finally, for commentary on the event, the Video Game Ombudsman provides an alternative to the press releases. From the post: "Kyle Orland (9:28:42 PM): The future of gaming is a girl in a blue dress? Dan Dormer (9:28:47 PM): The future of gaming is a girl with a bag? Kyle Orland (9:28:57 PM): She's the Xbox! OMG!"

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  1. Who is drivin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bear is Driving!
    How can that be (first post)?

    1. Re:Who is drivin? by ZephyrXero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Car full of midgets!!!

      --
      "A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
  2. Re:For the Trolls by Araxen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahhhhh a new script kiddie term is born.

  3. Not a PS3 fan boy by Dalroth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am not a PS3 fan boy by any stretch of the imagination. Hell, I've owned every console BUT the N64 and Gamecube (I'm a little tired of Nintendo's kid centric approach to their systems).

    That being said, I was, to say the least, very underwhelmed. Ghost Recon 3 looked interesting, and the Sports games looked good (even though I hate sports games). Nothing else looked particularly impressive and some of the games looked worse than existing current generation games.

    Microsoft is pulling the trigger way to early. The current systems have at least another good solid year in them, and a year of additional development can make a helluva difference in quality for the new systems.

    As it is, it looked more like the transition from Sega Genesis to Sega 32x than from Sega Genesis to the PlayStation/2, and that's not a good thing.

    Here's to hoping they can pull off a miracle in 6 months, but I'm skeptical.

    Bryan