Xbox 360 to be unveiled 3 days before E3

by Ben Zackheim { Apr 6th 2005 at 6:04AM }

According to CNN, Microsoft will be yanking the black velvet cloth-sample off the next Xbox three days ahead of schedule. The original plan was to throw the console in front of our faces at E3. But if Chris Morris, of CNN's Game Over, is correct, we'll get a view of the little silver and black box a little early. The piece also verifies that the machine is probably going to be called the Xbox360; but we already knew that, didn't we?

[Thanks Russ!]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

All Music Site @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Eat this Sony!

Tony @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Going to be one heck of a show at this E3... early info or not. Hopefully MS has been holding onto some rather surprising tidbits, else I'm not sure there's really much that could surprise me about the Xbox 2. I'm looking forward to it though.

Mathias Pettersson @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

"...the little silver and black box..."

What did I miss?

Rob @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Little Silver and Black box eh!

So we know it's colour now? I love that colour combo.

...and it's going to be small.

Rob @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Little Silver and Black box eh!

So we know it's colour now? I love that colour combo.

...and it's going to be small.

rc51 @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

I hope its smaller. I own one and
it is a really fatty. The colour combo
sounds rather cool. Hopefully
it will be as good as the PS3 ;-)

Dom @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Perhaps the author was referring to the fake pics that were released awhile ago?

NIGHTCRAWLER @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

dude i don't care about the color, it's inside that matters. can it play my XBOX games? will it have six controller ports? are the graphics gonna be equal to PC? c'mon tell me the inside info and i'll get excited.

OmegaSupreme @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Bring on the blue screen of death !

Russ @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Come on guys! You are asking ALL the WRONG questions! 360 implies it's a ball...a GIANT ball!! OF DOOM! Microsoft will want millions of these in every household and then when they get enough simultaneous users...BOOM! Mind control!

Just kidding. :P

asher @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

What the hell are you going to do with 6 controller ports?

Jellodyne @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Holy cow, from the article:

"The show's biggest surprise, though, will likely be the revelation of "Prey". Gamers first heard of "Prey" in 1997. The game, originally about a Native American who fights several nefarious alien races, was thought to be cancelled, but quietly restarted a few years ago. [...]"

Could this be the year both Prey and DNF are released? I remember being very excited about these games... once.

Matthew @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

One thing I have to say; systems need to get smaller. After buying the PS2 Slimline, I can't tell you how much I love the small size of this system. It makes the XBOX look way to big and clunky. Not that it's a bad system.:) So yeah, I'm excited about the XBOX 2 or whatever it's called. I'm excited about all the systems. But please, they need to shrink in size. Nintendo had the right idea in the beginning.

Monmin @ Dec 18th 2005 8:44PM

Predictions for E3:

We will hear a lot about customization.

We will hear a lot about Live Enabled.

We will hear a lot about HD games.

We will hear a lot about Japanese RPG's.

We will hear a lot about American FPS's

We will hear very very little about micro transactions. (this was big news for developers, but wisely MS will tone down this kind of talk to it's gaming consumers who don't want to hear about spending more money).