Check out this video, which I believe was snagged from ourcolony.net. It was actually posted at the Scobleizer Weblog, which I am fortunate enough to have an RSS feed from right on my desktop.
Unlike the disappointing MTV video, this one actually talks about the new XBox 360 in specific terms with specific details. They confirm the leaked specs from last week, including the processor, memory, video
chipset (egads! Triple the pixel pipelines of a Radeon x850?! Nice!) and more. From the looks of things, the new XBox will, in fact, ship with a hard drive included. We’ll hopefully have 100% confirmation of
that during E3 next week.
OK, enough with reading my rantings, go see the damn video!
Having just finished watching the MTV unveiling of the XBox 360 I have to say…what a letdown. Yeah, the system and the few glimpses of games we saw looked pretty cool, but I have to say that, all in all, the show
itself was very underwhelming.
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Source: MTV.com
In what is sure to annoy Microsoft, MTV has now confirmed what Bill Gates let slip last week: That the new XBox 360 will ship in 2005. Further, MTV one-upped the Gatesmeister by giving us the exact month-November-in which the new system and its array of next-generation games will ship. Granted, we expected to learn all this at E3 in a couple of weeks anyway, but this news is nonetheless good for those who
can’t wait to step up to the next Next-Generation hardware wars.
Source: Engadget
In an interesting turn of events, it appears that Engadget, present at this weekend’s XBox unveiling party for the upcoming MTV special on Thursday evening, managed to get out the door with a cell-phone
snapshot of the new XBox. The box stands vertically in the image we’re given and appears to be a bright shade of white. Assuming the accompanying peripherals are the shipping defaults, it appears that rumors of a camera system with the Xbox 360 are in fact true. The controller appears to be a very slightly modified version of the current Controller-S, sans black and white buttons (how this will work out for older games in backwards compatibility mode is unclear).
Reaction on Engadget.com appears to be mixed, with most readers calling the box “ugly”. Like it or not, it does appear that the new XBox has been reveiled at last after months of speculation. Now all that remains
is to get a good look at the games and wait for this sucker to launch!