First Xbox 360 Hardware Glimpse – Click Here Now

I'm hoping that this image is not of the console but of something else that connects to the console. I mean that looks really tacky so far. I was hoping for white console with a nice smooth look to it. This system looks like one of those cheap cellphones. I don't know what possessed them to make a grey console.



Lets all hope the system looks better than this cause its making me worried.

i liek to thinkt hat when viewed in its entierety it looks good, but i am not initially excited by that shot.

also.. i think this is the first time i have ever seen the entirety of spongs main page be xbox related. some peopel might think you guys actually liek the thing... carefull now, dont want anyone to get the wrong idea... why dont you write a compelling article about the best of the best in ps2 graphics like the geniuses at ign did. *cough*fanboyservice*cough*
oh ign, always good for a laugh!
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well, i was sent this link a couple weeks ago, supposed to be from an x2 dev presentation, so no-doubt strictly NDA, but i'll put it here see what you guys think..

http://upload.cgno.com/Xbox%20Next%20presentation1.jpg

From that shot I can't really envisage the final design? Presumably the shot was taken upright, and if so it looks like the top of a PC tower case.

Not really got anything against it being grey-silver.

Already been discovered, I'm afraid

thats cool, no worries, just ive not seen it anywhere on the net but there,

This coming from the guy with the illegible-text-lens-flare-rainbow-bright-avatar. Forgive me if I call you aesthetic acumen into question.

that was uncalled for... and HI-F**KING-LARIOUS!!

i hate it when i laugh out loaud at work you bastard... someone is goign to figure out that i dont do anythign all day!

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I think that's actually been confirmed as J Allard's lunch box

Well thank God SPONG had it CONFIRMED with their "inside sources."

Oh wait, they didn't. They just stated the obvious.

It's the attached hardrive on the side of the 360.
So what your looking at is the view from top down. (keep in mind the xbox is an upright console)

Well, although the one in the link you were sent doesn't match the one SPOnG has as "official", remember a few things:

1. We were told customisation was part of 360's marketing. Surely, multiple colours of console could be amongst this?
2. That is definately Mr Allard. I had it zoomed in and could identify him from his HAND. He's very distinctive, somehow. So the pic you linked is definately real.
3. It was a dev meeting. The machine in your pic could be a dev housing, and not a fully finished design.

It reminds me of the Panasonic Toughbook notebook PC, and I actually quite like that. Looks portable too, so they're going to encourage more LANage...

Thankfully this console looks like it might have the DS plastic-like looks.

I am still hoping Microsoft flops this generation. Sorry for the blatent anti-Microsoft comments, but I really can't stand the thought that that particular company could be in control of gaming from next gen.

its getting hard chasing you aroudn the forums... cant keep up...

as for M$ succeding.. all i want is for all 3 of them (M$ sony ninty)to do equally well!
if they all have a good 3rd party support.. the average person coudl just by the one whose exclusive match their intrests and the nut jobs liek us coudl by them all guilt free!
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Agreed, however, I believe that Microsoft is doing what it has done in the past. Apple was the first to create a true interactive interface WAY back when (mouse to icon control etc). Microsoft then proceeded to utilize this primarily for their interface. Why not steal a good idea, rather than come up with your own. What is the relation to this. Aside from encasing the dev kits in a G5 case, it seems like they're stealing the sleek Apple-esque design sceme to capitalize on aethetic appeal. The depth of the gaming industry used to be ideal for swimming, now you can barely get your feet wet. Except of course if you dare to wade into Nintendo's end of the pool.