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.
Yahavage
Looks like xbox and wii had a one night stand D:
MiguelX69
Oh my god, it’s ugly!
FireasBall
Where’s the lined that appeard sometime ago?
Supertaxman
Looks absolutely horrific, I can’t believe Microsoft would actually design something like that.
Then again, their heritage in in PCs…
Supertaxman
is in*
gazzagb
Man, thats ugly. What were you thinking MS?!
samiro05
Hmm.. well I like the look of it :) Bad thing about it is the VERY VERY evident finger print marks on it, just getting it out the box. It’s smaller and sleaker and is built especially for the new kinect. I think all this info is in another post but I forgot n I’ve wrote this now so there :p