The title:
Oh, we've addressed the title of the next Xbox for months now, in fact, it appeared in one of our previous rumour harvests. However, now we're 99% sure that the next Xbox will be called Xbox 360. All the industry sources are referring to it as Xbox 360 and Microsoft executives have been slipping up recently by calling the next Xbox the Xbox 360, which pretty much confirms it.
The design:
We've done alot of detective work at PALGN and we've managed to uncover an image of the Xbox 260 development kit. One of the most notable things about the kit is that it runs off a Mac and that the case is silver. For a long time now we've been speculating that the console will be silver. Are we right?
We've also managed to score the latest images scattered around the web on the console. These two images look very similar and while we're not sure if this is what the console will look like, we think this is really close to how it might be.
The Games:
From our latest shufflings we've heard Microsoft are going to be launching 30 - 40 games in the first three months of the console, including Burnout 4: Revenge, Madden 2006, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Project Gotham Racing 3, Tony Hawk's Underground 3, Half-Life 2 and FIFA 2006. The big news? Halo 3 is said to launch on the same day with the Playstation 3 (Glad we can look forward to these new, innovative franchises. - Ed.).
The launch date:
How's 2005 worldwide? In under six months we could be playing the 360. It is clear from the beginning that Microsoft have a huge lead and are much more advanced with their next-gen plans than Nintendo and Sony, we fully expect this to launch world-wide by the end of 2005. Guess what we want for Christmas?
The price:
$250 USD seems to be the price floating around at the moment. This could mean Australia recieves the Xbox 360 with a game and a bonus for about $499.95. This is absolutely incredible value, considering the same pack for the current Xbox costs a mere $200 less.
The controller:
Last week we broke the news on the controller. These are some of the pictures we dug up.
So there you have it, all we think we know on the XBox 360. How much of it is true and how much of it is false? We truely don't know, but tune into MTV on May 12th for the official unveileing. PALGN will also be covering it, so you could save yourself the torture of watching MTV and read our report after the event.
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