[Definitive] Xbox 360 Thread


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who the hell's idea was it to have elijah wood as the host? and the little "pimped" out version of the original xbox looked like it had been designed by a third grader. i literally fell out of my chair when i saw it. also, they showed past designs of the xbox360 that they had contemplated on using, those looked 500x better than what they decided as their final. my final question is what's this things fame to claim? what are its outstanding capabilities that will last for years to come? ooo wireless controllers? a bigger HD? better yet... A FACEPLATE!?!?!?! please, i hope sony can do better...FAR better and produce a fairly exciting/intelligent promo that's on any other channel but mtv.

Im gay and I hate MTV... even more so after seeing that. Also thanks for the PD0 screen grabs, just shows even more clearly that it was made for the original xbox and just ported (very poorly) to the 360.

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Probably because they make all gays look like super flamers

Downloadable version of the OurColony video: http://msxb.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ourcolony/TheColony_v2_750k.zip

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The leaked specs were almost (if not) dead on.

Things I'm glad to hear...

-All Xbox 360s will come with a 20GB hard drive, regardless

-Looks like any cell phone headset will hook up straight into the controller

-XP Media Center Extender built in

-Many, many types of devices usable over USB (keyboard support the main thing that's getting my attention)

-Microsoft owns their chip designs this time around

-Water cooling for CPU

-Sound done in software, so 5.1 support can be stepped up to 6.1 and 7.1 if a developers wants to do so

No word on backwards compatibility yet :(

Perfect Dark Zero looks like @ss: 1up

I thought this next round of consoles were supposed to look better then PC games, and the worst part this is a launch game. Wow, Rare truely is dead. If the final version of the game turns out to be anything like this and someone actually buys it, I pitty them.

Official Xbox360 Fact Sheet for those who missed it.

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HAHA I like this little piece of information they put at the bottom of the webpage

The information contained in this fact sheet relates to a prerelease product that may be substantially modified before its first commercial release. Accordingly, the information may not accurately describe or reflect the product when first commercially released. This fact sheet is provided for informational purposes only, and Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, with respect to the fact sheet or the information contained in it.

UGH that annoyed the hell out of me. They showed more of the god awful band than they did any xbox 360 footage.. that vid posted a few pages back had more information than this. And again, PD0 was... just leave it at that.

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Killers are great. Don't be jealous.

Why do you take offense to that so much?

It could very possibly not be the real thing, or at least not accurate to a final design. Most prototypes aren't.

$0.02

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Well you were wrong anyways. Peace out. Now I gotta stay up till 12:30 to watch this CTV thing in Canada.

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Well you were wrong anyways. Peace out. Now I gotta stay up till 12:30 to watch this CTV thing in Canada.

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OMG thank you so much for reminding me about that CTV thing. I knew it was coming on but for some reason I forgot about it. Again, thank you. :yes:

So am I correct in understanding it will indeed support a keyboard and mouse?

If so, I am sold.

If not, I am still a skeptic...

I remember I was all excited for the 1st X-Box, got it right away for way to much money. However many years later it is now, there is sits, faithful protector of the dust bunnies of my floor.

Until a Console can come super close to emulating the experience of PC gaming, I am not going to be excited. You can have the fanciest graphics in the world. Until you also have the gameplay for certain genre's that a PC has, it really will be no replacement for me.

With that said, when can I pre order it? Certain games are without a doubt meant for consoles, and with the mention of that Tony Hawk Wasteland game or whatever it was, and HD support which I happen to have finally just gotten a widescreen HDTV last month, now that I think about it, I am sold.

I still do hope it supports keyboards though.

So am I correct in understanding it will indeed support a keyboard and mouse?

If so, I am sold.

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Not sure about mouse, but keyboards (for text input) are definately supported. I'm guessing you were wanting to know if KB/Mouse would be supported for actual control...that's yet to be known (something I doubt though).

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