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yo_john117 on 01 September 2009
susymar said:
Just imagine this thing going ROD.
No joke. Serious. It would implode itself into a wormhole and appear in a distant parallel world.

Lol.



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ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 01 September 2009

looks cool



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arsenicazure on 01 September 2009

...lunchboxes and robot doodle will probably lead to squat sales.



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monlosez on 01 September 2009

It will scare alot of babies. Instant fail.



LilNjGanGsta on 01 September 2009

it looks alright, but we know Microsoft wont let that be the xbox 720




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Dgc1808 on 02 September 2009

Looks too cool to work out well...



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Sardauk on 02 September 2009
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...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-system-failure-article



 

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Orbilator on 02 September 2009

As console designs ? NO NO NO. Love the pictures mind, great 3d work, but as consoles they would all be big mistakes. Were would you put something like any of those, Think of the dust build up. The cleaning problems.
Microsoft should keep a similar shape to what they have now and just modify it a little. but any of the above design would just bewrong.
And I know these are just someones idea but does anybody really believe Microsoft could keep anything that slim cool? lol



crumas2 on 02 September 2009
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...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-system-failure-article

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.