Xbox 360 site counting down to September 27th?

by James Ransom-Wiley on Aug 22nd 2005 1:30PM

Origen Xbox 360

What do a tree, a green cutout of a bunny, and a countdown ending on September 27th have in common? Your guess is as good as ours. But it looks like another Microsoft viral marketing plan, this time for the Xbox 360. As for "Origen", it's either a misspelling (on purpose) or a reference to the Greek philosopher who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism. Any thoughts?

[Thanks, Ozy Hreish]

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I have been trying to get there for a week, but to no avail. Can you confirm that is the right url?

Seems a bit early...

its http://www.origenxbox360.com the link above is missing the "www."

Probably just a countdown to the unleashing of their TV spots...something "clever" involving the color green and trees/wildlife?

It's most likely a countdown to their unvailing of the release date for the 360. It has been confirmed through retail outlets that Microsoft will announce the date around late Sept./early Oct.

I submitted this to you a few days ago :P but no worries.

You can just about see a Xbox 360 behing the rabbit thing. Strange. I agree with Andy, this is probably when the release date will be confirmed.

Damn you microsoft. Has anyone else spent the past half hour at work reading about Origen in a pathetic and futile attempt to decipher that site? So far I've learned that Origen castrated himself and was later tortured to death. . . but nothing about green bunnies, sadly.

Why does http://www.origenxbox360.org go to a google search on 'Oriental Generation'?

Seth, because your typing in .org instead of .com.

I know, I did this intentionally. .net and .com are both the same site, but .org is different. A whois on it looks like someone is trying to be secretive. It's related, somehow.

So - Origenxbox.org sends you to a google search for "Oriental" and "Generation". Related to the bonsai on the .com and .net pages? Origen clearly refers to Oriental Generation. Good. I'm glad it all makes sense. :P

TeamXbox has a good amount of wild speculation goin on as well as some good observations:
1) If you right-click and choose play, the rabbit dissapears.
2) "Origen" means source or beginning in spanish.
3)They speculate that the site could reference alice in wonderland, i.e. follow the rabbit. . .

I was just there and I had to highlight it to see the timer. Then I double clicked my clock to figure out the day/time of announcement, and when I went back to the page the bunny and the timer were gone. Did the timer and bunny disappear for anyone else?

I also submitted days ago.

xbox360news has more info than anywhere. We followed this from the very beginning.

Theophilus once cautioned: �The works of Origen are like a meadow of every kind of flower. If I find any beautiful flower there, I pluck it; but if anything looks prickly to me I avoid it as I would a sting.�

The bunny represents "Mans Inhumanity to Man". I dont know what the tree represents.

Bunnies represent reproduction and tree represent paper, so I think we are going to have self-replicating paper on Sept 27.

Just think, we would never need to recycle

Perhaps a tie-in to the new villains on Stargate SG-1.

An anagram of Origen is "Region". and the tree looks very Japanese. And isnt there a gameing confrence in Japan in Sep.?
Here is the site:
http://www.xbox360news.com/Blogs/News/hqs/blr_351.aspx

the bunny means 'a litter' and the bonzai/bonsai tree means 'japanese'..

a 'litter' of 'japanese' titles to be announced on this date...

lol, j/k

Isn't there (or wasn't there) a marketing campaign called "Generation Xbox"? I would guess that Origen = Origin + Generation. Hence "www.origenxbox360.com" = Origin Generation Xbox 360.

Maybe it's a site only focused to the Spanish market... "origen" means "origin" in Spanish and it's also written in the right place for Spanish grammar: where in English should be "xbox360 origin" to be correct, in Spanish the correct place is "origen (de) xbox360".

Let's wait and see who's right ;-)

I think its the Tokyo Japan thing they will be hosting. Where Microsoft said it would show the true power of the X-Box360 along with Sony showing their PS3.

When you go to the site origen site and you right click and foward, keep forwarding a new picture will appear.

This is the start date for the Mountain Dew "Win an Xbox 360" contest. I believe it is supposed to start sometime in Sept.

When you choose 'Play' or 'Forward', it does what any Flash would do and takes you to the next scene. What this is in this case is what would be shown when the timer has run out. What gets me, is there are two of these (ie you can choose 'Forward' twice before you are at the end of the Flash).

Oriental Generation eh... I'm sure that can't be unrelated. What with a bonsai tree and all...

Just to note, the timer ends on 12 noon BST (unless I suck at maths)... Hmm.

ARG or what.

The Tokyo Game Show is Sept 16-18, so that's not it. Rabbits and trees and growing apples...my guess is that it's the date that the very first 360 is "born" / manufactured.

The timer goes by your computer clock; you can set it ahead about a month and the timer will say 0, 00, 00, 00. Nothing happens, though.

Origen (the Christian philosopher) castrated himself.

Does that mean the xbox360 is emasculated, or maybe Microsoft is trying to say "We have no balls."

Has anyone else noticed that there is a remnant of another two apples in the picture?
If you look at the stick that is holding the first 2 apples, you will also notice that same kind of stick on the branch above the bunny as well. This could be relevant....

I've been real curious bout this for a while, and none of your answers have been really useful (no offence) i mean, some of them are possibilities but they're just not that probable... I'm guessing, its a countdown to a surprise release date for the XBox 360... or just a scam that some freaks put on, just to get our hopes up for something spectacular (i hope not) and if u look really carefully on the top set of apples, you can see the top half of the MSN Messenger symbol... hmm? plzzzz some wacked out philosopher plz figure this out, its driving me loco!

I FIGURED OUT WHAT THAT EFFING RABBIT IS!!! The 2 dots on it are nails, and the white thing behind it it a piece of wood! its a freakin yard decoration rabbit! now we just need to figure out what it symbolizes...

Anyone else notice the MSN messenger icon at the top, the goofy looking stick figure on the left side first branch and the fact that the trunk of the tree looks like taz the tasmanian devil?

in hoc spatio arbor noster floruit fecundus pomis elysii ignoti quo in loco ludent electi ab originis angelis circumdati

you'll find it on the latest tree at the bottom near the hole if you zoom in. the name of the swf is ....with latin so if anyone knows latin please translate.

The English translation: 'In this space our tree has flourished abundant with the unknown fruits of Elysium, who will play in the chosen place, surrounded by the angels of Origen.'

ign.com seems to think the rabbit symbolizes the geographical outline of asia (turned upside down.)

Seems like a stretch to me.
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/649/649179p1.html

has any one lookedup the angles of origan from google theres some good info there

Each rabbit has an xbox360 behind it.
The big rabbit represents the Deluxe version of the 360. The little rabbit represent the core version of the 360. Today they annouced the release date for US, Europe, and Asia.
Does this give any insight? No.

i downloaded the flash site the other day and the name of the flash was "week-4_with_latin". i went to the site this morning and it is a new site. bunnies movied, more fruit, and the flash said "week-5". also the latin phrase is gone.

go to google and search for failure and then go to msn search and search for failure

Xbox 360 site counting down to September 27th?

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