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Designing the Look of the 360

Posted by Zonk on from the where-are-the-fins? dept.

Gamasutra has a piece up where they talk to the folks that designed the look of the Xbox 360. From the article: "We are responsible for the whole look and feel, the outward aesthetic. This includes the features, how it looks as overall design language, how it works with the controller and peripherals - working on the camera, the charging systems for wireless remotes - and then the box itself, obviously."

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  1. Re:Desiging? by kryogen1x · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, they mean De-Siging. As in removing your sig. Take off every sig.

  2. Reason for the concavity by snorklewacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lovelady: (what a name!) We talk about it in terms of the inhale - it's like the console is breathing in, pulling in all of this energy before you release it again.

    So basically ... it sucks?

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  3. Re:Why White? by senocular · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple.

  4. How it looks by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Funny
    Well here we are reviewing another console design So here's a quick poll
    What do you consider the The ascetics of the Xbox 360 to be akin to
    [ ] I bent my wookie
    [ ] The Chewbacca defence
    [ ] What happens when you roll play-do and forget that your not meant to keep rolling just at the middle when making snakes
    [ ] Now i know why they don't work for apple
    [ ] Burma shave
    [ ] An eloquent design improving greatly on the concept seen in the previous console
    [ ] Its a DVD player Jim , but not as we know it
    [ ] hey who spray painted my sound blaster extigy and punched it in the stomach
    [ ] It suxors
    [ ] It r teh Rox
    [ ] An Audi [TT] in console form
    [ ] I always give stupid answers in polls so I'm going to say a rotund pillar
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  5. not the mainframe by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 3, Funny

    am I the only one wwho saw that title and thought about the ibm 360, from many years ago?

    xbox? what's that? is that some kind of crossover patch box or something?

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  6. end game by macshit · · Score: 3, Funny
    Man, those clumsy slashdot editors seem to have chopped off the end of the story! Here, I'll fill it in:
    "... and then, to celebrate our triumph of design, our mastery of every nuance of the gaming console's form, we all got completely smashed on champagne the night before the deadline, and fell into a deep sleep.

    Unable to wake us, but knowing the deadline had come, my teenage nephew "buzz" panicked and submitted some random photo he found on the website of a Taiwanese PC-maker.

    A shame, I suppose, but ... maybe the world just wasn't ready for what we had done. Someday, though, someday..."
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  7. Re:Forgot the NES, Playstation, SNES, and Dreamcas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    big?