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Nymawae
Eternal Trial Member
Assuming the pics are accurate I guess the design is supposed to fit in with your normal AV gear by the TV given the aim of making it a multimedia centre for Music, DVD, photos etc as well as gaming.
Anything wild and whacky just ends up looking poo a year or so later - understated works for me - (see the Ipod for example). If I was Bill G I'd be wanting to make XB360 as powerfull as buggery with some clever co-processors for video/sound etc. Awesome games from top publishers, wireless/broadband enabled for t'internet/controllers avoiding cables all over the place, easy to use, easy to sync up(or stream) your music from Media Player 10 (or whatever), a doddle to copy (or stream) your photos from your digi video / stills camera on to it, use the webcam/headset for VoiP/video calls, and make it as unobtrusive as possible so it becomes just another standard bit of AV kit in your living room...
Funky styling looks good in a teenagers bedroom, it just looks out of place in most living rooms, last thing you want is people unplugging the XB to "put it away".
To be honest I don't doubt the games will look awesome (as will PS3 & Nintendo next gen offering) , rivaling for �300 (or whatever) what I need to spend �1200 on a PC to get. Trouble is I already have a PC, the real hook for me will be the games plus the potential for finaly getting a powerfull purpose designed multimedia center into the living room to go with the TV/AMP/Sky+/DVD etc etc
Anything wild and whacky just ends up looking poo a year or so later - understated works for me - (see the Ipod for example). If I was Bill G I'd be wanting to make XB360 as powerfull as buggery with some clever co-processors for video/sound etc. Awesome games from top publishers, wireless/broadband enabled for t'internet/controllers avoiding cables all over the place, easy to use, easy to sync up(or stream) your music from Media Player 10 (or whatever), a doddle to copy (or stream) your photos from your digi video / stills camera on to it, use the webcam/headset for VoiP/video calls, and make it as unobtrusive as possible so it becomes just another standard bit of AV kit in your living room...
Funky styling looks good in a teenagers bedroom, it just looks out of place in most living rooms, last thing you want is people unplugging the XB to "put it away".
To be honest I don't doubt the games will look awesome (as will PS3 & Nintendo next gen offering) , rivaling for �300 (or whatever) what I need to spend �1200 on a PC to get. Trouble is I already have a PC, the real hook for me will be the games plus the potential for finaly getting a powerfull purpose designed multimedia center into the living room to go with the TV/AMP/Sky+/DVD etc etc
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Agro
Mighty Morphin Power Member
Tell us what you really feel Cerb, not good to bottle it up old boy.
Consoles (or at least the NGC) are good for a laff with friends but Xbox will never be able to rival PCs for power/graphics/multipurpuseness (new word) as PCs are constantly being upgraded/replaced by newer money grabing bits of kit. The bonus of a console is that all the hardware is the same so programmers know exactly what they have to right to so the end user gets a more tightly coded product.
As for M$ making a one-for-all games console/media center they've left it a bit late. As Nym says, everyone already has boxes that are built specifically and perposely for each task, there's no-way they would replace it with one box that does a bit of everything without that box excelling in everthing it claims to be able to do.
Think they should have concentrated on making it smaller/thinner/more powerfull. Like a hardcore notebook without the screen.
Consoles (or at least the NGC) are good for a laff with friends but Xbox will never be able to rival PCs for power/graphics/multipurpuseness (new word) as PCs are constantly being upgraded/replaced by newer money grabing bits of kit. The bonus of a console is that all the hardware is the same so programmers know exactly what they have to right to so the end user gets a more tightly coded product.
As for M$ making a one-for-all games console/media center they've left it a bit late. As Nym says, everyone already has boxes that are built specifically and perposely for each task, there's no-way they would replace it with one box that does a bit of everything without that box excelling in everthing it claims to be able to do.
Think they should have concentrated on making it smaller/thinner/more powerfull. Like a hardcore notebook without the screen.
Chick
Cartwheel RIGHT
Agro said:
I'd disagree, but not jues because i like typing teh word.
At teh moment, everyoen owns a stack of gear because it is all you can get. However, consider a younger person who lives a thome still, with an XBox 360 in their bedroom. Do they needa ny more gear? when they move out, will they then need to buy a dvd/amp/whatever ?
These kind of systems will come to be echo the "HiFi in a box" mentality IIRC. You start off with one, you ditchit in favour of seperates when you can afford it,a s they are better, then you slowly drift back twards them for certain circumstances / environments.
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Guy
Piper/Leonaedas
Agro said:
M$ are purportedly making 2 versions of 360. The first is the media center with in-built high-capacity HD along with some kinda digi/web-TV capability (don't know the details here). The second version will be slightly stripped down and designed purely for the gamer.
Byzah
(Formerly Mari)
A media centre edition would be a lot more interesting to me. I recently wasted work prp cash on an apple ibook & have surprised myself by using it more to watching streaming video & listen to radio4 than anything else (though it does have WoW & Football Manager on it 
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Internet speeds (my 2Mb one, at least) don't seem quite up to video-on-demand yet, but we're clearly getting closer. I'd also like a replacement for TiVo as the tenner a month is probably a waste these days & it's got quite a small HD by today's standards (40Gb).
I think that's called "turning into an old git" I did enjoy my days as an impoverished hifi separates snob. Now I have a very crappy micro system that I hardly ever use. The cheap PC surround speakers (49.99 from PC World) effortlessly outclass it...
)Internet speeds (my 2Mb one, at least) don't seem quite up to video-on-demand yet, but we're clearly getting closer. I'd also like a replacement for TiVo as the tenner a month is probably a waste these days & it's got quite a small HD by today's standards (40Gb).
I think that's called "turning into an old git"
I did enjoy my days as an impoverished hifi separates snob. Now I have a very crappy micro system that I hardly ever use. The cheap PC surround speakers (49.99 from PC World) effortlessly outclass it...
I'd be convinced if
1) It wasn't as damn noisy as the current X-Box which is too noisy to just turn on and use as a music or dvd player
2) it is backward compatable
3) They don't make be pay 29.99 for some stupid tacky remote control and reciever to watch a DvD
All in one system sounds really quite nice and we could do with a newer DvD player, but it's going to have to do a much better job than the current X-box.
And I like the look of it though it would mean I would have to reshuffle the TV cabinet as the CD tray is so close to the top.
1) It wasn't as damn noisy as the current X-Box which is too noisy to just turn on and use as a music or dvd player
2) it is backward compatable
3) They don't make be pay 29.99 for some stupid tacky remote control and reciever to watch a DvD
All in one system sounds really quite nice and we could do with a newer DvD player, but it's going to have to do a much better job than the current X-box.
And I like the look of it though it would mean I would have to reshuffle the TV cabinet as the CD tray is so close to the top.