Live Picture of the Next Xbox 431
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?"
wtf (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:wtf (Score:3, Informative)
TFA says "real live picture". "real live" is an English idiom. The submitter probably didn't understand it.
Hello 1992 (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:5, Insightful)
If you are a Sasquatch. The S-Controller is much much better to the average non-yeti-sized human.
-truth
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:2)
I resemble that remark!
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:2, Funny)
I hate you jackasses, I bet you were the same people that complained about the original xbox controller. That thing was the most comfertable controller
What, the controller police came and took yours away because people complained about it? The last I heard, they were still making both styles, but I don't really follow Xbox news that closely, since I use the better console.
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:2)
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:2)
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:2)
Color better be white and not Beige....
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Hello 1992 (Score:3, Insightful)
Good looking:
20" Cinema Display
12" Powerbooks and iBooks
17" G5 iMac
iPod Shuffle
Not Bad:
Mac Mini
14" Powerbooks and iBooks
Original iPod
G4 Cube
Ugly only because they are too large:
G5 Powermacs
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Re:compared to XBOX 1 (Score:3, Interesting)
No worries (Score:5, Insightful)
Camera phone? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Camera phone? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Camera phone? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Camera phone? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No worries (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No worries (Score:2)
Perhaps the OP made up his mind on whether or not it was, which is definitely his right.
Re:No worries (Score:3, Interesting)
There's no doubt it's connected to Microsoft and the new Xbox, since the site several times have revealed pictures of the new console as rewards for solving the challenges. Also, astroturfing is not the same as viral marketing, which is what Ourcolony actually is.
Re:No worries (Score:3, Interesting)
White?! (Score:4, Funny)
Neko
Re:White?! (Score:2)
Intentional trade-secret trap? (Score:3, Insightful)
Better (Score:5, Insightful)
OMG!! (Score:5, Insightful)
What was that? It's from Microsoft? Well, that is the ugliest piece of crap I have ever seen!!!
This is why some geeks dont get laid. (Score:2)
"Oh, is that a Windows logo eched in your pubes? Damn, I only do Mac pussy. Thanks, but no thanks."
Idiots.
Re:OMG LMAO ur 22222 teh funny!!!11! (Score:3, Informative)
Read the article (the first link) and look at the comments posted to the story.
I guess he is making fun of those idiots.
Re:OMG LMAO ur 22222 teh funny!!!11! (Score:2)
I couldn't tell you if the people are just following the trend , or if they are deliberatly going against it
People with similar views and ideals tend to get together and become freinds , so no wonder alot of folks agree here , Still as they say
Well (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Well (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Well (Score:3, Informative)
Talk about jumping version numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Talk about jumping version numbers (Score:5, Funny)
And this Windows 2000 to Windows XP thing is just too confusing
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Re:Talk about jumping version numbers (Score:2)
Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:3, Insightful)
Which begs the question of what color to make game consoles. Black is 'old and busted', done to death. But it matches most other things on the consumer electronics stack. White is new and shiny, but its almost cliche at this time. Its almost like the Blue LED, an over-done LED color nowadays if ever there was one, just because the technology is available to make something look like it is, does no
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
Personally, custom cases should be made. I believe Microsoft is doing that with the Xbox 360 and the idea worked well for the PS2 Slimline series.
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
I did have an idea for some "assorted shape" based slot designs ( a selection of add-ons with odd shapes and colours that you could use to customise your computer, ) never got around to padding out the idea though (a kind of building blocks type lego idea but with larger
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
Sorry, PCI has already been invented.
I guess the best people can do is make console-case mods like they do with PC-case mods. It might be in Microsoft's and Sony's interest to make a competition for upcoming games, such as Gran Turismo, Halo and Final Fantasy amongst others.
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
If you want to compete you must have the games.
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:2)
I do have alot of respect for the designs of the era. I love some of the stuff i have from back then
Re:Microsoft is Bipolar (Score:3, Interesting)
All the Indigo ones were sold out when I bought my GC, so I had to choose between black and green. I chose the black one, but had there been an orange one, I would not have hesitated in picking that one up instead.
Would look better in black (Score:2)
Can't wait 'til the new XBox comes out... (Score:3, Insightful)
Vertical (Score:3, Funny)
I hope for M$ it doesn't break when knocked over...
Re:Vertical (Score:3, Interesting)
Headphone jack? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Headphone jack? (Score:2)
Re:Headphone jack? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Headphone jack? (Score:2)
Now that shit is ugly (Score:2, Insightful)
I have to say that it will fit in nicer with other electronic equipment that sits on our entertainment center but this seriously lacks a cool factor. Its colors are too passive, and the curves are all way too smooth...replacing the silver finish with a jet-black polished finish alone would make it look ten times be
Screenshots? (Score:2)
A screenshot is a capture of what's on a computer screen...
(One of those web annoyances...)
Controller (Score:5, Funny)
the last controller was a DC copy... (Score:2, Interesting)
See the original Xbox controller (not the later S controller). It is a dead-on copy of the DC, except with no windows for the memory cards to show their displays through.
For that matter, the entire Xbox was a DC offshoot.
Look at a Japanese DC, it says on the front "designed for Microsoft Windows CE". Look at a US (later) DC, it says on the front "compatible with Microsoft Windows CE". Early on, MS had made a Win CE API for DC. The DC browser and Sega Rally used it. Ho
Re:Controller (Score:2)
Ugh... (Score:2)
Ps3 performance against Xbox2 (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Ps3 performance against Xbox2 (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
I just don't know (Score:2)
At least the controller looks smaller this time around. I hated admitting that my hands were too small to u
Comments on that site... (Score:3, Insightful)
Since when did Apple gain ... (Score:2, Insightful)
It looks (Score:2)
man. (Score:2, Insightful)
OMG!!! lOLOLOL my toilette is SO APPLE!
seriously people. Get a grip.
fear bill?? (Score:2)
Alright! More of Microsoft's design "Innovations" (Score:3, Insightful)
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!
Re:Alright! More of Microsoft's design "Innovation (Score:2, Interesting)
Controller (Score:2)
PR scam (Score:5, Interesting)
Gah - fake "leaks" (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm so tired of marketing departments pretending their press releases are "accidental leaks" to generate "buzz" and excitement that people are supposedly seeing something they weren't supposed to be privy to. "Can't tell you how we got our hands on this image"? Oh please, it's a product launch (this was a product launch party), they want everyone to see the new XBOX and talk about it. It's called "advertising", "branding" and "hype". These pictures don't even look like they were taken surreptitiously, some
Looks like a Dell (Score:3, Insightful)
Picture 1 [atmarkit.co.jp]
Picture 2 [tsmartz.com]
Picture 3 [tsmartz.com]
Picture 3 [zdnet.de]
to applease the /. crowd (Score:5, Funny)
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
Let me guess... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Oh, you guys (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
FAKE (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:How is this a 'live picture' (Score:2, Funny)
An old pic?? But this is /. How is this possible..
Re:Thats the ugliest thing I've ever seen (Score:2)
But I can imagine it in black with the big trademark 'X' on it. wouldn't be too bad I think.
Re:Thats the ugliest thing I've ever seen (Score:2)
(Oh, and it needs blue LEDs. Blue LEDs make everything OK...)
Re:Ugly! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Interesting)
reeallly
Re:Ugly! (Score:3, Funny)
"I have seen the new X-Box, and it is ugly. And I mean UGLY. Take it out back and put it out of it's misery ugly. Hit with not only an ugly stick, but an ugly pole and an ugly mace. It's like they tried to steal Apple's iPod white with none of Apple's design taste. Again, it's ugly. "
Re:Ew. (Score:2)
Re:stop flaming just because you don't like micros (Score:5, Funny)
Exaclty, and I congratulate Apple for releasing this awesome Xbox killer into the gaming console market
Re:Microsoft and design (Score:2)
I could see them doing that almost on purpose. For many markets they are the establishment, whether we want them to be or not. For a long time they did understate their position as far as their operating system is concerned. The user was left with, "this is what a computer is like," rather than, "this is what Windows is like." That has helped ingrain to the userbase what they should expect, which makes any challenger to that (be they Apple, Gnome,
Re:i-box (Score:2)
Apple has a definite style for it's consumer design and has begun to get pretty predictable, but that console isn't really Apple-ish by any stretch of the imagination.
although,I'm sure M$ said "we gotta make this thing pretty. Flamboyant Design Engineer Michael, design us something that's apple-esque, but don't get us sued."
Re:Silver "button" (Score:2)
I thought it was like a floating compass or some such thing, for those people who move their hands (while holding the controller) when they play driving games. A form of accelerometer if you will.
I think your idea sounds more reasonable.
Re:Silver "button" (Score:2)
Re:Silver "button" (Score:2)
If it were a trackball, you would be straining the tendons of your thumb trying to get past the other two buttons. The best place for a trackball would be beside the handgrips of the controller, so you could make adjustments without stretching your thumb too much.
Re:Silver "button" (Score:2)
Check it out.
Re:Only two controller ports? (Score:2)
Zero controller ports! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:MS copies Apple AGAIN... (Score:3, Insightful)
white as a product is plain ugly IMO.
reminds me of those godawful 50's 60's style garbage they used to sell.