kowenicki said:
makingmusic476 said:
kowenicki said:
Squilliam said:
Reasonable said:
I like it but I'm kind of surprised at the look. This looks more like what I thought the 360 would look like at launch with a strong PC flavour to its lines and a certain aggressiveness to it.
With the focus on Kinect now I expected something even softer than the current 360 not this.
Judging, as best I can from that image, it's not a whole lot smaller than current 360, just a little neater around the edges and a tad slimmer.
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Is it an Xbox 360 inside?
It makes me wonder if they haven't pulled a Wii because the only way they'd need a console the same size as the original Xbox 360 relatively speaking if as the leaked motherboard picture suggests they have an external power brick is because they are drawing more power than you'd expect from simply shrunk hardware.
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sorry can you explain that again? what are you getting at?
if the board is smaller and you throw in a HDD and wifi and maybe lose the external brick wouldnt that make this plausible?
Oh... and I was hoping for a slot drive too.... 
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I think he was saying that the leaked photos of the motherboard implied the new system will still have an external PSU. If that is the case, he thinks it's possible the reason the redesign is still as big as it is is because Microsoft "pulled a Wii" and added a bit more oomph to the 360's hardware.
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I doubt this... wouldnt that split their existing and future consumers?
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Yah - splitting the install base would be silly. I suspect if it's roughly the same size it's because they've squeezed WiFi in plus some other stuff so that you've got more in the same space.
Mind you, I saw the rumour there are two versions of Kinect, which sounds like a potential install base splitting move as well, so who knows?
