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E3 2010: Xbox 360 Slims Down Today

The new Xbox 360 redesign is slimmer, quieter, and here now.

by Levi Buchanan


At its E3 press conference today, Microsoft announced the brand-new Xbox 360 redesign. Smaller and quieter, the new Xbox 360 comes with built-in WiFi and a 250 GB hard drive. The wait for the new Xbox 360 is short, too. Very short. The new Xbox 360 ships today in North America and will be in retail later this week. The machine costs $299 USD, the same price as the existing 250 GB model. In Australia, it will release on 1st July for $449 AUD and for $499 NZD on 9th July in New Zealand.

The new Xbox 360 is primarily glossy black. There appears to be more vents on it for heat dispersion. The front of the machine has a sharper indent than the current hourglass design.

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As if that was not enough of a surprise, Microsoft also announced that anybody at the theater for the press conference would get their mittens on a new Xbox 360 even sooner: Microsoft is shipping them a new machine immediately. (As you can imagine, the IGN War Room was suddenly full of many frowny-faces.)

It's actually amazing how consistent you are with this sort of thing.

Look, I know you covered it already in the VG news thread, but I felt as though this was a big enough announcement today by Microsoft that it deserved it's own thread.

That being said, that's all I have to say on the matter.

NO WAY, REALLY!? Dude that's CRASY!

I will say it does look pretty f'n sweet though. Wonder if they'll actually offer them in that "sleek" black color or if that was just a display model or whatever.

no yeah totally, the thing is pretty...i want one, but i mean...i would literally just be buying it for the look because i already have the network adapter and a 120gb hard drive.

Yeah, but for the "late adopters" or whatever, it could potentially be the perfect time for them to invest in a 360 if they were looking to.

They needed to do this with the original xbox.

I'll be buying one, been wanting a quiet XBox forever.

OMG! YOU DIDN'T USE THE VIDEO GAME NEWS THREAD!

*has tantrum*

I'm still wondering if this has the CPU and GPU in a single package.

That looks sexy. Will probably get one providing the RROD issue has been resolved.

I'd definitely wait to make sure the new archetecture doesn't suck. Though I don't plan on buying a new one for a while.

Dale writes:

So, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Nick and I were at an unboxing event for the newly announced Xbox 360 today, and it was there that he committed a sin that will never be forgiven. Well, it wasn't a sin as much as it was a total waste of a perfectly fine copy of Alan Wake.

You see, despite the warning on the front of the new Xbox 360, Nick picked up the system to move it from horizontal to vertical position while the game was booting. The resulting sound was close to that of starting a garbage disposal with a fork in it. After hearing the horrendous noise, Microsoft people immediately ran to our area with concerned faces. "Yeah, you can't do that," we were told. As you'll see in the video, to Nick's embarrassment, Microsoft's Bill Beldan pointed out the prominent warning sticker right there on the system's face, which clearly explained that you can't move the system when a game is in use.

Fail.

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Sure, there was a sticker on the damn thing saying not to move it, but it isn't like he was tossing it around the room. They're planning on having gesticulating children play Kinect anywhere near this thing? Some games are going to be getting destroyed, people. Looks like everyone needs to be really, really careful around their new 360s while they are on or their games are going to get wrecked.

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-10-do-...0-176508.phtml

It's got a spinning disc in it. Unless it's got a spindle in it like a disc man I wouldn't move anything that had a disc spinning at the time for that very reason.

Remember, there's a class action lawsuit by people who got scratched discs from moving their consoles.

PSX and PS2 for the win!

what an idiot, don't know why you'd ever have your 360 vertical anyway

Always have mine vertical, fits better amongst my stuff.

You never struck me as the type to buy into magical thinking.

I'm just gonna buy one, and get the 60 dollar or so year warranty on it from EB.

Anybody know the specifics for release yet?

It's out within the week? What other specifics do you need?

Holy shit, really? Must have missed that.

Thank you. :)

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Looks like the HDD is a still a proprietary one?

Not surprised. Since when does Microsoft pass up an opportunity to make money?

I guess when I read "internal hard drive" I immediately associated it with the PS3 :o

At least it's still possible to transfer data over to the new models from the old ones.

Your disc drive doesn't run constantly, with or without a disc in it?

Mine doesn't. But, the fans are still kinda noisy.

I was being facetious.

The new Xbox 360 will NEVER show the three red lights EVER AGAIN.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1099382p1.html

So we'll just have a new thing to call failing X Boxes.

What the hell is more effective than three red lights, though?

The disk drive opening and closing 15 times? The console self-destructing?

I thought the RRoD was that last one. :shifty:

I am pretty sure a M$ machine could fail hard enough to give a blue screen :p

I KNOW, RIGHT?! How dare I not use Kalyx's thread to break this article down to it's prime factors, ya know? Of course you don't. See ya in a bit.