my cat is totally more awesome than your cat. my cat talks on my headset if I set the controller down. and he's siamese to boot. and he chews through ethernet cables like nothing, so I had to go wireless.

actually, maybe your cat _is_ better than my cat.

Behold a crappy picture of my black 360

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3143425

nice kitty, compliements the black hue of the xbox nicely

More attention is on the Black 360 than the PS3 right now. Thats seriously not good for sony.

Holy Flat Black Batman!

g0d damn that looks awesome.

more attention is on the cat then the black 360.

I wants me some test kits...


And possibly some cats. Damn you viral marketing.

You know, if you say it's getting old with all these people and their pictures of black XBox 360 test kits, why keep posting about them? Just stop altogether.

I’ve never seen an Xbox 360 test kit with a normal hard drive on it. As far as I know the test kits all have those big thick hard drive cases on the end with the fire wire ports.

my cats breath smells like cat food................

Just please, please, no PINK ones! The black does look totally awesome though.

They should try to take some of the market away from Sony by making a really ugly 360, At least then there'd be a choice of ugly consoles in the next generation.

Your cat is awesome.

Guy-'s right.
The Debug (test) kits are white with non-detachable internal hard drives. The Dev kits are black. That's not a test kit or a Dev kit...but it is probably just a 360 with a custom latex paint job.

MS just copying PS3.

What's all the excitement about?

would it be impossible to powder coat paint this thing black? i mean im sure its not unheard of to paint these things

Yeah, it looks cool, but I like the white just a little better. It certain stands out in your mind since as of now, it is really the only white thing around your entertainment center (note: your iPod is not a part of your entertainment center). Plus the fact that the tray isn't chrmoed makes it look like an incomplete design. I realize that the core white 360's also didn't have chrome DVD trays and I think the same thing about their design. Without the chrome, or some other way to make it stand out, it just lacks an element of design.

I like the textured look to it, which must be latex paint if the Teri really knows their paint. In a way it looks close to the black silicone skin I have for my iPod. Now let's see MS release a blue 360 with the same paint The Llamma used. (find it at llamma.com)

AWW KITTY WITTY SO CUTE I LOVE BLACK KITTIES OMGGGG I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I HAVE ONE AT HOME AND HE IS SOOOO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEE HE IS A BIG BOY YAAY

But seriously. Kittys rock. They're warm, fuzzy, cute, funny, and lovable hugable snuggable.

Or its a black replacement case ordered off of many sites like DEcalgirl or something.


Personally i'd want a chrome 360 case. Gaudy i know but its oh so shiny

Thats some real shit, i just bought my 360 a few days before i hear for the first time about this rumor. the black 360 looks really sweet, if its true i'll just have to sell it. good thing i could get around $410 for it, even though i only paid $347.15 total and yes its a premium version.

Looks like an electric razor. Powdercoating it black is a good idea, then it would be high gloss, like the system from XXXX called the XX3, you know what I mean... Now THAT is a tough looking box, but not trying to start arguments here, just my own opinion.

Problem is I don't if you can powdercoat plastic like this, it's a baking process usually done on metal, and while they do have powdercoating for wood, I think plastic might warp and deform in the final heat which 'skins' (melts/hardens' the powder into the final finish.

Anyway. The effect could likely be done with high-gloss paint as well, but the 360 does have a molded-matte surface, so you'd have to lay down some thick layers...

The test and dev kits both have non-detachable "sidecar" mounts containing the hard drive. And as for painting a 360? We're not really talking about something profound here. Just google "Xbox 360" and gaze upon the variety of 360 case mods that come up. Black paint? ::shrugs:: Not that special.

Wow. I call out animal cruelty! That thing could overheat any minute!

Damn, all this talk about a black 360 and VC (or his cat) has been sitting on one the whole time.

I always knew you were holding out on us.

/sarcasm

Take it from me! Vlad's cat(s) are most cute!

Hey, is that a Korat?
That's what mine is. You can get some serious bank off of thier kittens if you can breed them pure.
http://www.koratworld.com/home.html

Meh, who gives a shit what color the console is anyway? How often do you look at your console? Mine's tucked away in a console beneath my TV. If the hard drive was 25% bigger or something that might be newsworthy, but who cares what color the outside is?

they should make some camo 360's. Or possibly release a halo3 edition 360. Onyx black and change the ring color to blue, with the dvd tray being chromed. Or my favorite a copper colored 360, that would be awesome.

Can you move on?

If you're tired of the black 360 stuff, then stop posting about it. Or does somebody's boss have them whipped ;)

Want a black 360? Or blue, chrome, clear or green?

http://secure.llamma.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=73_94

If Microsoft starts offering a free kitten with a 360, I'd finally buy one. A kitten and Geometry Wars is worth $400.

I took this picture at E3 the last day at THQ's booth.

http://geocities.com/scizormaster/360testkit.jpg

::shrugs again:: You can boot it up if you want. Whether it's a "reviewer kit" or a retail with a new coat of paint is impossible to tell from a picture. They'd be virtually identical.
Point is, whether it's one or the other, that means it's not authentic.

And besides, who said I work in QA? ;)

There are two black 360's

1. XBox360 Development kit - is black and haves a non-removeable hard drive , the hard drive is also bigger than the retail cause developers first test the game from it and then test it on DVD9

2. XBox360 Reviewer or Test Kit - is black and haves a retail removeable hard drive , this console is not different in hardware is only different in color.

Cat is cool, I could care less about the color of a *Box* that I will only look at when I pop a CD/DVD in...

"A kitten and Geometry Wars is worth $400" ~ Oro

If you're willing to buy then I'm sure they're willing to sell, though you should know the MSRP on a kitten-geometry combo is actually $312...so the Games Division at Microsoft might finally start turning a profit.

"39. There are two black 360's

1. XBox360 Development kit - is black and haves a non-removeable hard drive , the hard drive is also bigger than the retail cause developers first test the game from it and then test it on DVD9

2. XBox360 Reviewer or Test Kit - is black and haves a retail removeable hard drive , this console is not different in hardware is only different in color."

If thats the case then, Me = Owned. Move on people. Nothing to see here.

http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/4,4297.htm

o_O

My Xbox 360 didn't come with a cute cat! Not even an ugly one!

My favorite 'cat'egory of games is ArrghTS.



Pun-Believable

my cat didn't come with an XBOX, but rather a box of cereal. ;)

http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tinkerky7.jpg

My cat Clio (Greek Muse of history and heroic poetry) looks EXACTLY like that.

You're kidding me, Tom... all of the Xbox 360 bundles that come with matching cat in my area run at least $800. I've heard rumors of an upcoming flame point model with Persian that runs up to $2000, though.

Yeah, let's move on. We gamers have no control whatsoever over what these big corporate gaming companies will do. Isn't that right, Sam and Max?

nice white faceplate on the bed