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[vortech]

[Grifter_7]

From TeamXbox.com:

[vortech]

Aw, man. . . That's WAY too small for my hands.

[Atrophied]

Damn, that looks even smaller than the 'S' controller. Maybe the size of a Mad Catz MicroCon. Gah... way too tiny for my hands. I hope that there are going to be larger versions of the controller, otherwise I'm gonna have to wait for some 3rd party to come back with an 'S' type design that works on the 360.

[vortech]

Gmail thought I should see this and I think you should too. (may that was cheesy)

New controller close up with mystery button

EDIT: More from engadget and a Remote for the WHM functionality.

[SuperJerms]

Good golly. engadget has a lengthy post on the guts of xenon.

I'm starting to see how they expect that anyone will buy this thing within a year of buying the original box. Highlights:

- Stream media from any networked XP PC
- Plays media from portable devices
- Two-tiers of subscriptions to Live!, sliver (free) and gold (pay)
- silver includes the rumored upgrades of offline/online achievements, gamer profiles, purchasing, etc.
- silver also includes "Free Xbox Live! weekends," so maybe free players can only play on weekdays beginning with an S?
- gold has everything sliver, but it looks like your ability to make matchmaking use the new gamer profiles is only present with gold (the upgrade gives you the ability to do matchmaking based on skill or against only good-reputation players)
- open standard disc reading format (see below)
- an awful lot of directed computing power...3 x 3.2GHz CPU cores, 1MB L2 cache...though I'm not sure if that's 1MB per core or shared. a beefy GPU, but I don't remember seeing what special instructions it can handle aside from Shader (2?) and current DirectX standards (see below)

[Grifter_7]

More details from Neowin.net

[Grifter_7]

Some of the Customizable face plates for the Xbox 360:

[INCyr]

2 comments:

1) You gotta wonder what Sony is thinking about all this. The PS3 better be DAMNED good if they plan on having it stand up to this.

2) What are the price points going to be? And are the games going to stay at the current $50-$60 price range? For that amount of hardware... it seems crazy to me that they'd offer it for $400 for the "full" version, and $300 for a lesser version. That's practically giving it away.

[Grifter_7]

Images from Vortech's Post above:

[Grifter_7]

[INCyr]

[water10]

WOW!! Great news! 1080i supports makes me giggle like Krystyn!!

3 x 3.2 core is just awesome! 1mb cache is GREAT! 512MB of Ram is great! Seems pretty damn awesome!

[vortech]

[Tiny]

Your are right that xbox live! doesn't have any competition, but the thing is, most online games for Ps2 don't require any type of pay subscription at all, other then the modem attachment and the Mic, which comes with a couple different games, the whole set up is free. Sure it doesn't pass over game to game, but then again, I'm not sure which way I would choose.
Would you rather have
PS2
*Pay for headset, no extremely highquality ones, about 30$, and easily broken
*Pay for Modem
*Free accounts for most games, and multiple accounts per xbox.
(I say most games, because now that I think about it, there are a bunch of Mmorpgs that I've never touched on PS2 that have pergame subscription costs but talking about FPS's like Socom 2 are free)
Xbox
*One over all subscription for all games, bout 50 cents a day for one account
*Pay for mic, 60$ if you want to get an extremely high quality, otherwise 30$ and easily broken
*Only one account per subscription fee, but that account carries over to all live games.
*Modem in the Box already

Ok, so now that I actually debate it, Xbox Live! would be for people who want to play multiple Mmorpgs, which there aren't any I think for Xbox right now, so that cancels that out. It's also for people who want their gamertag to stick with them and not have to set up a different account for each game.
PS2 setup on the other hand would be for people who play games liek NFSU and Socom, and don't mind carrying a few different accounts for their different games as long as they don't have to pay for it.
Other then that, the two online systems are basically the same, the hardware is pretty much equal in quality and price.
The only extremely major plus that I have for the PS2 is that I haev yet to come across a four year old calling me a NOOB, the community for Socom two and others is almost completely polite, as long as you don't act liek an asshole, your free to roam, otherwise, people hate you, boot you, and generally ignore your ass until you go away, and thanks to that, there are almost no assholes in that community!
I know everyone here would consider that a freaking huge bonus afterplaying H2 matchmaking for about 20 minutes.
I do hope that wiith the Xbox 360 that the children and oother random assholes take awhile to show up and harass everyone, or at least M$ comes up with a new plan for dealing with those guys other then the feedback system, which right now is about flacid. The one thing I really hope for is that Xbox stays with the pay for account thing and not per game, I have the money to pay for it, it would just be fricken hassle to pay for four different games and not just one monthly fee!

Just my 1.50$
Tj-