Sardauk said:
crumas2 said:
Destroyer_of_knights said:
Oh god, if the current 360 box shape has heat issues which results in the dreaded RROD, then I can not even fathom what the failure rates of new xbox would be if that was the case.
I have to admit though it does look kinda cool, but not very practical, and at the end of the day I want something practical and efficient, after I'll be playing games on it, not sleeping with it.
I've got to say, some of these concepts I've seen really look cool, very futuristic, so futuristic that some even resemble alien tech, like this for example, frigging looks like a spying drone...and where there's a spy drone, there's the mother ship XD |
I doubt the current shape of the 360 cabinet had much to do with the heat issues... my understanding is that it was due to many factors including insufficient fan strength, motherboard warping due to heat, insufficient heat sink capacity, etc.
But I do agree with you that designing a console to look like this would lead to some very interesting thermal challenges... 
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-system-failure-article
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That article pretty much confirms what I was saying... it isn't the shape of the 360 cabinet, but the size and air-flow along with other issues. Plenty of desktop computers that put out well over 100 watts use similarly shaped cabinets, but the cabinets tend to be larger and the air-flow, heat-sinks, etc., tend to be more robust. One the engineers who works for me built a fairly high-end PC recently... his case wasn't that large considering all the components he crammed in there, but he has a background in engineering and carefully thought out how the airflow across high-temp components could be maximized, etc. His system tends to stay cool even though it's still a reasonably sized rectangular box shape.
Putting a next gen Xbox into something like the concept art in this thread depicts would cause all kinds of air-flow/convection problems that would be difficult to overcome.
