Whoever’s in charge of Xbox 360 ads over in Italy might be having a bit of a headache just now, because if you look at this Italian gaming site, there’s an advert playing for an Xbox 360 that looks a little bit different.
Assuming it’s real (the ad links to xbox.com) the ‘new’ Xbox 360 looks like it comes with a 250GB hard drive, wifi and something called Kinect, which is presumably the ‘real’ name for Project Natal. Here’s a grab from the ad:
This comes as Microsoft were claiming super tight security around their new announcements for tonight and the rest of the week. Utterly batshit bonkers insane, or whatever the terminology is these days.
We’ve no idea what the ad is all about, or whether it’s real, but we’ll hopefully see later tonight.
Source: GAF.
Update: It seems that the Kinect name has been filed as a trademark by Microsoft, although there’s no confirmation that it’s the new name for Project Natal.
The only information available is that Microsoft hold the trademark and that it’s filed in the ‘computer software, computer hardware and computer peripherals’ class. Thanks to SebMoss for sharing this.
Update 2: The advert appears to have been removed from the site.
Update 3: USA Today have a preview of Kinect that went live half an hour ago, repeatedly referring to the peripheral as Kinect multiple times. Alex has the full story here.
Raen
Just seen a good thought on Twitter about stuff missing, mostly where is the HDD?
cc_star
Internal?
Also they really need to make the power supply internal as the curent brick is shameful these days
Raen
No way it’s going internal unless they change a lot. It is shameful, but I can’t see them adding extra heat to the console.
saladino
the ads are online at the moment on italian websites and forums
jtickner1
Man, and I thought the PS3 slim was an ugly bastard when it was leaked. That is bloody horrible.
Exstrodinair
wwtf is that! i thought it wz guna be slim
Zoddi
Doesn’t look much more smaller than the old one and the design isn’t much better.
Alex_Assassin_08
Right. It’s my brithday TODAY, and I have enough money to FINALLY buy an Xbox 360 (complete with wireless adaptor etc). Should I just buy one, then sell it when this new model is out, so I can get it? :)
Like, use my birthday money to get an elite today etc, then see if i wanna get this new model when its out in a few months? :)
stonyk
I’d recommend buying one now, then when it breaks you can buy this one then. Mine lasted about 5months if that helps
Alex_Assassin_08
thanks mate, am gonna get an Elite today :) the new model looks…well, shit. The wireless is a one time purchase, and Natal (yeah, still gonna call it that M$ ;) ) looks…crap.
Getting it for the online and exclusives :)
andytorr
That console design reminds me of these adverts you see for a top end gaming PC. In other words, it looks absolutely awful! The current design is a thousand times more beautiful than that. As for Kinect… err
Vaile23
looks nice, may swap my white 360 for it.
uk_judgement
However it looks, the black is a major improvement over the gray…
Pemberton_
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