Xbox360 Marketing Brochure Leak

19 Aug, 2005 at 5:00pm ET Article published in Tech

The Xbox360 Marketing brochure has been leaked onto the internet, and PlanetXbox360 have managed to obtain a copy for everyone to check out.

The brochure is divided into several pages, each one pertaining to a different aspect of the Xbox360 console:

View: XBox360 General Info
View: XBox360 System
View: XBox360 Core System
View: XBox360 Accessories Overview
View: Xbox360 More Accessories

Source: PlanetXbox360

Comments

19 Aug 2005 ~ 11:16pm drasnor

Backwards Compatible: top-selling Xbox games can be played on Xbox 360, including Halo(c) 2.

All of a sudden Microsoft's purchase of VirtualPC makes so much more sense...

-drasnor
20 Aug 2005 ~ 1:19am entropy But only if you get the expensive one. This is amazing: look at the "Core System" page. If you look carefully, you can only play original Xbox games if you get the more expensive one.

WOW. Two views:

From Microsoft's, good and bad. Good becuase more people will buy the expensive one to play their old games. Bad because it might backfire and people will go, "Wtf? No thanks," and stick with their original Xbox.

What I anticipate to be most non-Xbox fanboy's view: **** that noise.
20 Aug 2005 ~ 1:48am TheBaron the more expensive one has several more features, and is in fact only supposed to be $100 more. I'll dish it out
20 Aug 2005 ~ 8:35am deicist I think the way the backwards compatibility works is this... for an original X-box game to work on the 360 it needs to have a 'profile' (which are produced by MS) and the profile has to be stored on the 360's hard drive. The core system ships without a hard drive, so original games won't work on it. However, you can get the hard dive as an optional extra.... but if you're paying $50 extra fo the hard drive why not just get the more expensive package in the fist place?
22 Aug 2005 ~ 5:51pm Garg Ok, the profiles on the hard drive thing makes sense. If they just wanted you to buy an "upgrade" of some kind that only unlocked a feature that was already there, then that'd be pretty shady. (Like only letting people with remote controls watch DVDs...)
22 Aug 2005 ~ 6:03pm Cyclonite I believe the DVD remote idea was to avoid extra fees associated with allowing the XBox to play DVD movies right out of the box. It kind of sucked, but they were already losing money on the console.
22 Aug 2005 ~ 7:42pm Garg Not sure I feel too sorry for Microsoft. PS2 played DVDs out of the box, and it was out before the Xbox. I tried to play a DVD at a friend's house (the only DVD player he had was his Xbox), and it took us 20 minutes to find the remote before we could play the disc. If they did it for cost-cutting, I understand their reasoning, but I just don't think that was something they should have cut cost on.
22 Aug 2005 ~ 9:25pm Cyclonite I don't know. Personally, I'm tired of the "media center" idea behind the consoles. I want a gaming console. It's cool to have all those extra features, but I want to play kickass games on it. I'd be perfectly happy with that. I don't want another PC or two sitting around my TV. I can easily find other means. It seems Nintendo is the only one sticking to the whole idea of a *game* console. Unfortunately, it's not helping them too much. *Sigh*
23 Aug 2005 ~ 12:05am entropy This next generation might prove otherwise. Nintendo has been turning profit off their consoles from day one, unlike Sony and Microsoft. So while Nintendo has moved less product, they've made much more profit per system than either I'm betting, and maybe even as much total (excluding Sony, sheer numbers win there).

The Revolution is the only one sticking to the game console image, aside from now playing DVDs. And the hardware isn't going to be insane, like in the competition's products, so again, they'll probably profit from day one.

Take a hint, Sony and Microsoft: Nintendo pwns j00.
23 Aug 2005 ~ 10:20am Cyclonite Haha. Yeah. I'm excited about the Revolution.