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[Vic Viper]

Horrible name.

Horrible look.

side view.

memory card ?

360 logo - looks like it was made by a 5 year old.

what do you guys think ? i think it looks like crap. but im probably gonna end up getting one, hopefully its backward compatible.

[trunks69420]

i desperately want one of these. i hope for backwards as well. amen.

[Vic Viper]

Originally Posted by trunks69420

i desperately want one of these. i hope for backwards as well. amen.

what do you think of the design of teh console ?

[trunks69420]

Originally Posted by Vic Viper

what do you think of the design of teh console ?

Well.. i think its... special. i honestly hope it doesnt look 'just' like that.. but if it does and enough is good about it.... i'll love it.. it does look a bit sleaker than my pretty green xbox right now... but just a little

[TtTackler]

I think it looks really sleak. Glad that I have a pre-order down on it already.

[Faile]

It looks okay to me. Bit too much like a PC, but honestly I don't think anyone will ever be completely happy with it because everybody likes to have a dig at microsoft.

[Vic Viper]

oh i forgot to say, M$ will unveil the Xbox 360 to the public May 12th on MTV. watch out for that.

[dan da man]

I think It will be the best console machine of the next Gen, and for the design I’m waiting for a official looking on mtv and E3.

[Phenom]

Errr..... It looks okay I guess... If that's the real design then I prefer the 1st Xbox. That 360 logo looks sorta like Dreamcast logo. (I wonder if they have anything to do with it.)

[Infernal Mass]

why does microsoft even want to release a new console so soon? bad move..

[Vic Viper]

here it is:

XBOX 360 console

"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. Also note the presence of a hard drive attachment up top, the white controller, the Xbox Live headset, and what looks like that EyeToy-like camera peripheral we’ve been hearing about. "

[Vic Viper]

Hardware:-

* DVD burner
* tivo capabilities
* customization for your xbox (faceplates)
* wireless
* text messaging on XBL
* xbox live button on the controller that pops up a menu with live options

The Games :-

Perfect Dark Zero
* Playable
* 22 weapons, able to import your own body
* you can fly with a jetpack on the map
* counter strike feel
* invisibilty gun
* strapped to wall gun - shots people when they walked by.

A new Medal of Honor game
* Battlefield like

A new Ghost Recon game
* Ghost Recon 3 with some new HUD

A medieval rpg. Possibly Elder Scrolls Oblivion

[kupoartist]

looks ok. How the console looks isn't a big factor to anyone who is really interested in games. Hell knows that if the last gen consoles had been judged on looks alone, M$ would have bombed out long ago. I personally doubt that there is going to be much of a graphical difference in games in the next gen either. They're all releasing at a similar time... always the possibility that Sony's hype infested graphics capabilities (lol @ "the emotion engine") are less than they're letting on... I mean, we know what X-Box 360 games will look like ("Gears of War"), but Sony have been keeping very quiet.

Not like i'll have the money to own a console once I'm at Uni anyway... their Firewall better not block the Half-Life / Steam ports, otherwise I'm going to be very bored :/

[Vic Viper]

XBOX Live stuff:

"There will be two versions of Xbox Live. Silver is free (everyone gets it), and Gold is a paid subscription, like the current XBL. It looks like Xbox Live will be free on the weekends for everyone; Gold members will get it all the time, obviously. Current Xbox Live accounts will carry over to the 360 and become Gold Xbox Live accounts. Both Gold and Silver members will be able to download demos, trailers, and other content through XBL."


Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)
Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline

- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievements * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enhanced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Micro transactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Stream media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *

360 HardWare:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready

Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache

CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second

Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture

Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR

Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus

Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sound output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels

[Vic Viper]

new look for Perfec Dark 0, Joanna Dark.

https://www.ourcolony.net/images/logos/L2893749823.jpg

[DSgamer]

that doesnt surprise me, i saw the thing on mtv, i only liked the killers lol. but yea nothing new, it looks like my computer. lets hope revolution makes up something new cuz everything just seems played out nowadays

[dan da man]

Lol, this xbox 360 will be a fucking beast, its something totally new from past video games, if you've seen the video its alot small than a pc!

The video for Gr3 is truly awesome! And to think its out this year!!!!

[Chara]

Screens from new ghost recon...

https://img125.echo.cx/img125/7931/15zu.jpg
https://img125.echo.cx/img125/4151/22qh.jpg
https://img7.echo.cx/img7/3449/39nv.jpg
https://img7.echo.cx/img7/1749/42qj.jpg

DOA4

As for the console itself, I dont think it really is just crap. I kinda like it. The concept screens looked like crap, but once you actually see it it looks kinda good. I think it looks better than the lego block PS2 anyway.

[Vic Viper]

i miss the MTV special. i heared the show sucks.

[Beretta55]

Originally Posted by Vic Viper

i miss the MTV special. i heared the show sucks.

It was okay I suppose but the start of it went like this. *Girl shows Xbox 360*
my thoughts: omigosh the Xbox 360! (I feel the urge to stare at it some more)
the host: NOW WE GO TO THE KILLERS CUZ THEY RAWK LOL!
my thoughts:........you bitch.
.
It was an okay show but it hardly gave any info that was new, most of it was stuff known already. Perfect Dark Zero was cool but you got to hardly see any of it, just a bunch of people cussing at each other. Since it's so awesome to watch people say "you bitch" or "I got you" then look at the actual game myself. So overall I would say watching people playing a game and making lame taunts is better then seeing actual game footage, awesome. So basically I felt unfulfilled by what was shown, I wanted to see more games. Of the games you did see were barely 15 second trailers and the only game that was playable (perfect dark zero) you didn’t get to see much of. Like I said the camera was always on the celebrities and such playing the game instead of looking at the actual game play. Oh you also cant forget the pimp the Xbox special god knows that’s what we all wanted to see .