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XBox 360 MTV Ad and Possible Images 75

Posted by Zonk from the so-tired-of-speculation dept.
hollismb writes "A teaser commercial for the upcoming unveiling of the XBOX 360 on MTV had been released on the internet, and you can watch it here. In addition, an image was released on OurColony yesterday, that many feel my be a partial image of what the new console will look like. If true, this seems to go against the white console report from a couple weeks ago." There are even more possible photos available via a Voodoo Extreme post.
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XBox 360 MTV Ad and Possible Images

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  • Madden (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BoomerSooner ( 308737 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @11:38AM (#12329569) Homepage Journal
    I'd rather see the Madden commercial than the XBox360 commercial. If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive. The console could look like a turd for all I care (hell it may keep it from getting stolen).

    • Re:Madden (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Jorkapp ( 684095 ) <jorkapp&hotmail,com> on Sunday April 24, 2005 @11:54AM (#12329697)
      If it shows what it can really do that would be impressive.

      This is what is wrong with the whole gaming/computing industry as a whole. Specifications are always put out before anything else, thus further perpetuating the "Megahertz Myth".

      We've all seen the XBox2/360 specs. Sure, dual Power 970 processors is nice, but dual processors mean nothing if nothing decent is being done with them. I would rather see gameplay videos, screenshots, etc showing the console in action before I see specs. Much the same as I would rather test-drive a car before I look under the hood.

    • Re:Madden (Score:4, Informative)

      by MBCook ( 132727 ) <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com> on Sunday April 24, 2005 @01:25PM (#12330442) Homepage
      IT'S UP

      I just watched the commercial, go to here [easports.com] on the Madden site and you can choose low or hi bandwidth. Looks pretty impressive.

      As for the console issue, the VE pics look more realistic to me (as to what it may end up looking like). But we'll just have to wait and see.

      • Thanks for the link. I thought they said they weren't going to post it or replay it so you had to watch the damn draft.

        Their tag line should be:
        EA, We make great games but are ethically and morally challenged.
    • The Madden commercial doesnt show any real game footage. It's prerendered footage of what the madden game "should" look like. I was very disappointed when I read that. Check out this link http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/25/news_61228 61.html/ [gamespot.com]

  • removable hard drive? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by flawedgeek ( 833708 ) <karldnorman@nospAM.gmail.com> on Sunday April 24, 2005 @11:38AM (#12329577)
    That image doesn't look like a hard drive carrier, it looks like a pull-out handle.

  • Shameless copying (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 24, 2005 @11:41AM (#12329603)
    This is a blatant example of how Microsoft copies everything from Apple and the open source community.

    As everyone knows, Apple came out with the Apple Pippin in the mid-nineties, which, like the XBOX360, was a games console running a stripped down desktop OS.

    Worse still, they're also copying IBM, who everyone knows, is one of Linux's biggest contributors. They're including IBM's processor technologies in their hardware, just like IBM did in the mid-sixties when they came out with their own, giant, garage-sized, games console. Think it's co-incidence?

    Well, get this: IBM's huge, EBCDIC-spouting, multiuser games console was called the System/360. Microsoft couldn't even hide how unoriginal they're being by at least calling their pathetic attempt something different.

    • No, MS is copying Nintendo. Have you seen the DS or maybe the platinum GC?

      If MS was copying Apple I would expect better design. People likened the PSP to the iPod. Shiny does not mean well designed. Now people are comparing the Xbox 360 to the Power Mac. Apple design doesn't start and end with covering everything with brushed metal.

      • Have to disagree with you there , the DS is wonderfully designed if you realse its a homage to the nintendo Classics .
        Good design dosn't always means artistic design , I love the DSs design as its simple , easy to use and reminds me of the good old days .
        I also love the PSP design as it looks like a data pad from star trek.
        Finaly i love my Mac as it reminds me of some form of retro space helmet(eMac) and an homage to the classic imacs and the origional mac.
        Good design dosn't end when you gloss things in Met
        • Interesting you should mention the space helmet. I worked in a Mac shop as a Manager/bench-tech back when the eMac was first release. Well, we got alot of them in for repair within the first few months (I'm talking 50%+ fail rate). Anyways, we had alot of the outer shells lying around as we worked on their innards. If you've ever seen one of them, it actually could be a space helmet. There's an opening in the "bottom" part of the case that frames an average face perfectly. It reminds me of a white ver
      • If they were copying Apple, it would have rounded edges, be twice as expensive as something of the same power, and be in black and white.
    • Seriously. I hope I'm not the only one who thought 'Pippin' when Microsoft announced they were making a game system (back in 2000)...
    • Congratulations! Judging by the responses to your post no one realized you were making a joke!
    • surely i'm not the first to coin the term "mac-in-a-box"... am i?

  • Better pics... (Score:5, Informative)

    by kajoob ( 62237 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @12:06PM (#12329786)
    Engadget has pics of the entire console here [engadget.com]
    • As far as I can tell that seems like an old design because the other pictures have a different color and the eject button is placed differently.

      For all the pictures go to:

      click [teamxbox.com]
      scroll down to see the update

  • Odd... (Score:4, Funny)

    by rmarll ( 161697 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @12:55PM (#12330201) Journal
    Everyone in the ad is outside.

  • Whoa! (Score:1, Funny)

    by Fjornir ( 516960 )
    5 seconds in -- jiggly cyber boobies!

    /purile

  • In the future, all information will be s l o w l y (Score:5, Insightful)

    by superultra ( 670002 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @03:16PM (#12331234) Homepage
    released.

    I can't believe how well this is working for Microsoft. They (or whomever they chose as their PR company for Xbox2) are genius. Nintendo's strategy has always been to say absolutely nothing about anything, and then just show it. Sony has been a little more forthcoming, but it's in a more matter-of-fact PR release.

    But Microsoft has been using ourcolony to v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y release information, literrally droplets of information. Instead of getting one big bang where they unveil the console on May whatever, they're getting 20 big bangs, one almost every day up to that date, where all the game news sites are reporting (no exaggeration), "We think we might have seen the Xbox360 power button!"

    Need proof? Go look [slashdot.org] at the number of headlines in games.slashdot that discuss the Xbox. And isn't it interesting how many of these end in a question mark? Really and truly, we don't know a damn confirmed thing about the new xbox, and yet Microsoft is getting at least one Xbox "major" news item circulated on the gaming sites every day.

    I'm not complaining. I'm as excited about the Xbox2 as anyone else. But I think what's more newsworthy is that Nintendo is still stuck in the Nintendo Power days of releasing information, Sony somewhere in the middle, and Microsoft is really using the 86400second internet news cycle to their advantage.

    Milk away Microsoft, milk away.

  • Xbox wins! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I find it absolutely amazing how Microsoft has the gaming world captivated with titbits about the Xbox 2 - whereas nobody cares about the Playstation 3 or Nintendo Revolution.

    I wonder how much this has to do with Sony's PSP - they're still advertising it and probably don't want the PS3 to tread on it's coattails. It would be ironic if the success of the PSP is what kills the PS3 - just like the Gameboy became Nintendo's focus and contributed to the downfall of the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube (because Nintendo
    • "A company can only have one flagship product in a market space - and the PSP is definitely it for Sony."

      Uh, no, that'd still be the Playstation 2 by a long shot.

      Only time will tell, but right now, the PSP's not Sony's main source of income. The PS2 still has a shitload of game revenue coming in.

  • Mock up (Score:4, Interesting)

    by dfj225 ( 587560 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @05:15PM (#12332066) Homepage Journal
    I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released. Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox? Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.
    • Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.

      My understanding is that all controllers for the system will be wireless, possibly bluetooth but that's only a guess. I know there is more information out there about this. There are no controller ports on the front, if you look, just what looks like an IR reciever.
    • I was so ready to get an Xbox just because of the way it looked (in reference to the giant X with a glowing orb with the Xbox logo in the center). But anyway, about the controllers; there has been a lot of speculation and rumors about wireless controllers. If they choose to completely omit the use of wired controllers, then this would definitely support that point.

    • Re:Mock up (Score:5, Informative)

      by badasscat ( 563442 ) <basscadet75NO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Sunday April 24, 2005 @10:23PM (#12333602)
      I could easily see this being a mock up unit made specifically for E3 and not necessarily close to what will be on shelves when the unit is released.

      Nobody "unveils" a mock-up at E3 (or as an infomercial on MTV). Think about what you're saying - it doesn't make any sense. The whole point of an unveiling is to show people what to look for when the product starts appearing on shelves.

      Any one remember the giant metal X that was shown when MS first started talking about the original Xbox?

      Yes, when they first started talking about it. Not when they finally had the unveiling. MS has been talking about the 360 for a while, and quite a few potential mock-up shots have been floating around the net since then.

      They never had the big metal X at E3 that I recall. I believe they had it at GDC, but that was when they first announced that they were developing a console, not when they unveiled it to the masses.

      Also, one glaring omission from these pics are extra controller ports on the front of the machine.

      The Xbox 360's controllers will be wireless. The one port that there appears to be is for backward compatibility with any original Xbox controllers you might have. (My guess is it's so that you won't have to buy a second controller for two player games - I'm hoping it's not suggesting that they're doing away with the controller pack-in altogether.)

      Note that I'm not saying these pics are definitely the final design - although I am convinced that they are (OurColony is definitely affiliated with MS - that's known - and they're not going to be releasing pics of an unfinished console). But what MS does finally unveil on MTV and then at E3 will definitely, positively be the final design you will see on store shelves at the end of the year. E3 is not the time to be showing mockups.
      • Nobody "unveils" a mock-up at E3

        Um, sure they do. All the time in fact. At last years E3, the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were shown for the first time. Both recieved modifications to their design before being released to the public. While the difference won't be "night and day", it is very possible that the X-Box 360 shown at E3 this year will be tweaked and modified before final product ships for Christmas.

  • confirmed to be. (Score:1, Flamebait)

    by scottind ( 838186 )
    those pics ARE actually the next xbox, theyre leacked pictures fron press kits from mtv and a munch of other publications they were supposed to keep under wraps... but didnt. and fyi, the controllers are wireless, and they are UGLY!

  • This conversation will happen one day (Score:3, Funny)

    by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @08:09PM (#12333024) Homepage Journal
    "Uh, yes, I'd like to return this unit [teamxbox.com]."

    "Why?"

    "Because somebody sat on it!"

  • the power button (Score:3, Interesting)

    by bbkingadrock ( 543696 ) on Sunday April 24, 2005 @09:46PM (#12333408)
    does anyone think that huge power button looks even remotely real? look at the edges of it where it would sit in the unit, there does not appear to be any bevel or seam of any sort.... looks to me like it was simply enhanced with Adobe Photoshop(R) photo editing software

  • Wait a minute... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Taulin ( 569009 ) on Monday April 25, 2005 @12:06AM (#12334026) Homepage Journal
    I can see the marks where the Phantom stickers were taken off...what's going on here?!?

  • xbox360games (Score:3, Informative)

    by Sludge ( 1234 ) <slashdot@@@tossed...org> on Monday April 25, 2005 @01:57AM (#12334324) Homepage
    Xbox360games [xbox360games.com] wrote a good analysis of what the different components could mean. It looks like the left side of the box is meant to stand upright, which means it's engineered to allow the heat to come out the right side. (Ever used one of those rotating lcd monitors?)
  • I downloaded this movie several days ago (and I don't remember from where). It was identical to this one, except that instead of "revelation", the narrator said "revolution".

    It struck me as a bit of a jab at Nintendo. I think its interesting that Microsoft would have changed it.

    I've got to say I'm pretty excited about the design unveiling for all the new consoles. To tell you the truth though, I'm a little more excited about the PS3 and Revolution. The way I see it, Sony and Nintendo already have my p
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