X-Box IMAGES!!! [better looking once]

[SSP]

Link to IGN.. Much better looking then those mag scans.

 

[SuperFreaky]

I thought I heard somewhere that is was going to have 8 controller ports... where are they?

 

[damocles]

I thinks its a tad ugly personally, but i think that about most consoles

 

[zippy]

It's...it's...it's enormous! Jeebus!

BTW, LOL, 80mm case fan.

I like the black contollers with the different colored, semi-translucent, matted buttons- except whats the deal with that big, neon "XBOX" bubble thingy?! Yipes! But...ooh, analog triggers? The controllers are really fat though- I dunno how comfortable they will be. Also, 2 joysticks? Hmm...what's the deal with that? The dual shock PS/PS2 controllers have two joysticks too- what is the second one for?

Just saw this, "Built in rumble ability"- well, that explains the fatness/big XBOX bubble thingy.

 

[shawnmos]

Yeah I just say these pics today. I think it looks cool!

 

[Soccerman]

heh I had a good look at a PS2 on new years eve.. that thing's bigger then I thought! I wonder how big this mutha's gonna be...

 

[A5]

This mutha is gonna be HUGE! I'd say at least the size of a VCR.

 

[Adul]

I like the look of it.

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

i like the way it looks too but having a look at the specs at xbox i think it feels and smells and tastes like a computer. I mean it has a processor at something over 700mhz and a modified geforce as a video card @ 250mhz....... 64 megs of ram . i dont think that there will be anything better for a gaming consule than the PCText

 

[Remedy]

I just don't see where the games are supposed to go. I see 2 buttons in front dead center, most likely power and reset buttons but i just don't understand how you put the games in?

 

[NOX]

Here are more...

<< I just don't see where the games are supposed to go. >>

Look at the font where is say's &quot;XBOX&quot; on the left side of the console. That's where the games will go.

 

[Pocatello]

It's not going to be better than your 1.2GHz Athlon 256 MB RAM setup, but for the majority of people out there with a 300MHz Celeron and an ATI Rage, nvidia TNT or S3 Virge set up, it's pretty dang good.

 

[Castellan]

It's awesome, but it's gonna be pretty darn expensive to make. Glad console makers take a hefty loss to make a large profit on thee games and licenses

 

[zippy]

<< Xbox
Sony PlayStation 2
Nintendo GameCube


CPU
733 MHz
294.912 MHz
405MHz Power PC




Graphics Processor
250Mhz custom-designed chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia
147.456MHz
202.5 MHz Custom chip &quot;Flipper&quot;




Total Memory
64MB
32MB
43MB




Memory Bandwidth
6.4GB/sec
3.2 GB/sec
3.2GB/sec




Polygon Performance
125 M/sec
66 M/sec
6-12 M/sec




Simultaneous Textures
4
1
N/A

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These numbers are extremely misleading because the PS2 and GameCube don't NEED that many MHz to be fast! This is because they use chips that are specifically designed for processing graphics and have dedicated graphics capabilities as opposed to the XBOX which, last time I checked, was using a P3 733 (yucky!) and the next in the line of the GeForces (only tweaked a touch- not much- for the XBOX). I'm not impressed at all with those specs. Also, the GameCube can do 8 simultaneous textures I thought...

Oh, and MS will never touch that 125Million polys/sec. because that would mean that all buses are completely saturated and that NEVER EVER happens! Especially since they are basically using a computer and not a practically dedicated graphics design for their console.

 

Looks like they ripped a lot of the design from the DreamCast. The box looks a lot like a black DC. The controller is a lot like the DC's too, albeit better design (not hard to do).

I think now that the mystery is over a lot of people are going to care less about the XBox. Let's see how effective the 1/2 billion dollar ad campaign is going to be on the brain dead public.

 

[NOX]

<< Looks like they ripped a lot of the design from the DreamCast. >>

Oh...really? What, the fact that it's black?

More XBox screen shots

 

[Soccerman]

well heres hoping that the graphics are ok.. even though I won't be buying one of these, it can only mean good things for us PC gamers (I hope)!

I was just playing the PSX GT2..

I mean, I've complained about the graphics of the PSX before, but.. MAN it's BUTT UGLY compared to my new monitor! heh, that's one reason why I never liked the PSX.. all competing platforms (except for the Saturn) at least had SOME higher res/quality graphics going for it.

it's very hard to distinguish what your next corner is like, compared to racing games on the PC.

 

[Shazam]

Rumor is that the green light on the controller will hypnotize you into buying xbox games

 

[zippy]

Soccerman, true 'dat! I never understood why the PSX was so great- the graphics were absolutely awful! The XBox will have good graphics, but it seems from the specs that it is a PC in a lil black case with nice TV out and 4 game pads.

 

<< Oh...really? What, the fact that it's black? >>


Well, the DC is white. Other than that it looks like MS borrowed a lot from the DC design.

The screen shots are nice, but I can do that on my PC today. If this thing costs $200 I might consider buying one. Any more than that I will stick with my PC and DC.

 

[Tripleshot]

I just got back from CES and saw the booth at Msoft and viewed what they said is coming for it demoed on three tv screens. It was constantly surrounded by people. I,being quite tall,stayed to the rear and peaked over everyones heads to see some of the most beautiful graphics in game play of oddworld Abe and another game. This device is going to rock. It will not have connectivity to dial up,only broadband--built in! It has ports for 4 controllers per box and can be set up as a lan whereby more Xboxes can link for team play of some good titles that are being developed for it. Today it is as Zippy has stated. The controllers I'm told have that same feature as PS-the shock play or whatever.

MSoft rep told me November.

Look here for titles coming out and rumors of titles.link for Xbox

This is a must buy for my 2001 Christmas. Oddword is hilarious for an old geezer like me,HeHe

 

[NOX]

<< Well, the DC is white. >>

Actually it?s more of a grayish color, but that's exactly my point. Don't look anything like the XBox IMO.

Gray Dreamcast

Especially this one: Red Dreamcast

 

[SSP]

These numbers are extremely misleading because the PS2 and GameCube don't NEED that many MHz to be fast! This is because they use chips that are specifically designed for processing graphics and have dedicated graphics capabilities as opposed to the XBOX which, last time I checked, was using a P3 733 (yucky!) and the next in the line of the GeForces (only tweaked a touch- not much- for the XBOX). I'm not impressed at all with those specs. Also, the GameCube can do 8 simultaneous textures I thought...

WTH are you talking about? It's not a geforce chip (the geforce chip was used in the early demo version). The graphic chip in the X-box is way closer to the NV20 then the Geforce (It's based on the NV20). MS didn't claim the P3 733 as being &quot;more powerful then the PS2 emotion engine&quot; (it's not their fault most people are idiots). The reason they don't need an ultra fast processor is cause the x-chip will be doing most of the work (which is what the Geforce was supposed to do, but never really did).

The x-box is based on PC technology, but it is NOT a PC! It's designed to remove all the bottleneck thats found in PC systems, like the unified memory. So have fun with that 4MB Vram in the PS2, cause you know it'll be a bottleneck in future games.



EDIT - It has ports for 4 controllers per box and can be set up as a lan whereby more Xboxes can link for team play of some good titles that are being developed for it.

WOW! Now there's an original idea. Now who did MS rip that off of, hmm... lemme see.. NO ONE!

 

[NOX]

Check out The Rock and Bill Gates with the XBox...

 

[zippy]

<< the next in the line of the GeForces >>


Right, that means the NV20 and I said tweaked a little bit.

I guess we'll have see how it performs. The game list doesn't look to great and I have heard any rampant enthusiasm from game developers like I've seen for the game cube. The gamecube is supposedly ridiculously easy to design for and there are rumors that square or squaresoft whatever they're called might be going back to Nintendo- that would kick aiss.

Is the XBOX still based on the Windows2000 kernel? Heheh, built in broadband support for downloading patches. LOL, that would suck!