You people are crazy! That beautiful, sexy, finger licking, yummy to the touch, sweet piece of plastic called the XBox 360 is lying there in front of you and all you French maids can talk about is doing your PS2 horizontally! ....hmmm.... maybe you' re right on topic.

/crappy french accent

That beautiful, sexy, finger licking, yummy to the touch, sweet piece of plastic called the XBox 360

Ewww are we talking about the same Pentium 3-ATX Form Factor- looking white box shown at the beginning of the thread? I' m surprised there isn' t even a 3.5 inch floppy drive on that thing

Jesus Christ, people! I think everyone has missed the point of the Xbox360 name! Since it is the 360, you will be able to stand the thing on ANY side (360 degrees). I bet you all thought that the name " Xbox360" would have zero relevance to anything and was just horrible focus-group based marketing that America is loved for, but you are wrong!

I bet the UK could never think of a name better than Xbox360.

You people are crazy! That beautiful, sexy, finger licking, yummy to the touch, sweet piece of plastic called the XBox 360 is lying there in front of you and all you French maids can talk about is doing your PS2 horizontally

All this post got me thinking about was French Maids and horizontal. Now there' s a sexy, finger licking, yummy to touch thought.

and I agree with Joe, you should totally be able to stand the 360 any way you want. I reccomend placing it with the disc tray facing straight down, so any time you want to put a game in the tray has to push the whole unit up off the ground like it' s doing pushups.

It looks a bit dull...But still nice small and different. However, even tho it looks dull, wont they have customizable peices. Like the actor metaphor used above, you can apply the makup yerself.

probably fake. still looks good though.

For info on the specs and Xbox live go here. But one of the comment was interesting. No mention of backwards compatibility issue. Also it' s also supposed to be all in HD and the use the HD-DVD format but since the article about Blu_ray and HD-DVD combining i think it' s changed.

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4844

no offence to all you xbox360 lovers out there

but it really doesn' t look that nice...

and considering the amount of stick the gamecube controller got for looking ' kiddy-like' - i' m suprised no-one has said that about the xbox360 one

it looks like the chunkiest kiddiest controller i have ever seen!!

the precision u must be able to get from those chunky mo-fo analog sticks must be amazing... ahem.

primary colour overload too!!

plus it really does look like the dell computer that is stood vertically on my desk at work - if only it was a lighter shade of grey...

hmmm

Even though I have committed to buying the XBOX 360, I agree with evangelion...those pictures do not really make it look all that good.

Luckily, I don' t buy a system for how it looks, but for how it works and makes games look & play. The gameplay and visuals on the XBOX 360 are expected to be absolutely spectacular!!!

I think it looks pretty ugly.

Also, standing your PS2 on it' s side does scratch discs. I had mine like that for the first couple of months, and it completely ruined my THPS3 disc, which doesn' t load anymore.

and like I said, I' ve had mine on it' s side for 4 years and no scratched discs. So maybe SOME models do, but mine certainly doesnt. Maybe it' s how you put the disc in and take it out that' s causeing the scratches.

I doubt it has anything to do with the way I put them in since I' m generally really careful, and the scratches are curved.

DaRoosh65 is right you dont just buy a console for what it looks like, plus when it comes out most people wont care what it looks like, they' ll take one look at the games for sale and get it.

I think the xbox live gold and silver thing is going to confuse alot of people though, and is going to take a while to get used to with all the profiles and eye toy while gaming.

The only thing bad about the design is the color IMO. I say the color choice there is for marketing reasons (sort of) tho. People gonna want a good reason to go and spend a few extra on custom face plates. Unless however they give you a free set of designs with the console then thatd be further reason to give it a bland coloras to increase the chances of ppl actually using them...or somthing

Altho I could just wait 3 more hours and watch MTV.

Some close-up pics of the pad.
Looks fantastic, Like how the DC pad should have been.

Looks like a wavebird from behind.

You know that it has interchangable face plates, does anyone know if they will be selling stencils to use with airbrushes or something?

You know that it has interchangable face plates, does anyone know if they will be selling stencils to use with airbrushes or something?

Unfortunately no. There will be 360 face plates to choose from. Early developement teams were toying with the idea of stencils, but realized that this was going to lead to real independant thought rather thean the illusion of uniqueness they can provide with these faceplates. You can however buy a bucket of latex paint, cut out fancy star shapes, glue em on with a glue stick and then dunk the whole unit in the paint. throw some sparkles on it and you' ll have the coolest xbox360 this side of hell.

it does look like a wavebird from behind...

even the greyness is the same hehe

but i will stick to what i said before... the amount of stick the gamecube controller got for being to chunky and kiddy like was enourmous...

this is pretty much the same, chunky, primary colours, BAD d-pad... yet for some reason, it' s amazing, just cos it' s xbox360

thats just sad.

Did anyone else notice this?






Hmm... first the video of a terrorist assembling an Xbox in a 3rd world country and now this.