Xbox gets a facelift

by Ben Zackheim { Jul 1st 2004 at 8:00AM }

Xbox got a new faceplate in the Taiwanese market, with the introduction of a "summer package" that includes Xbox Live! A favorite quote is from a marketing person, as usual. "It's vacation season once again, and this means more members of the family will be grabbing the controller to play our high-energy games." Nothing like taking a vacation and getting away from it all in the den. The unit is priced at NT$5,980, which somehow translates into not that much money. Fair warning — the article appears not once, not twice, but three times on the same page. Which beats our record by one.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Christian Gloddy @ Dec 18th 2005 8:46PM

I think that's roughly $200 US.

Ted Mielczarek @ Dec 18th 2005 8:46PM

They should have skipped the facelift and opted for liposuction instead.

Laurens Holst @ Dec 18th 2005 8:46PM

With that 'facelift', you're referring to the translucent case? I saw one like that in the shops a few days here in the Netherlands... So Europe already seems to have such an XBox?

~Grauw

Laurens Holst @ Dec 18th 2005 8:46PM

This one:
http://www.xbox.com/nl-nl/hardware/crystalconsole.htm

(English)
http://www.xbox.com/en-gb/hardware/crystalconsole.htm

It's at least around for a couple of days already, but dunno exactly when it has been introduced. May have been last week, or a month ago.

~Grauw