Xbox 360 5 minute Ourcolony clip: teaser 2!

The ink isn't even dry on that last post and we've already got some more goodies for ya: the final Ourcolony puzzle was solved and the prize was this 5 minute trailer with details on the Xbox 360 and interviews with some of the design team.

Ourcolony 5 min. Xbox 360 trailer

[Thanks, Tim and Alexpolo]

[Sherjan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

OMG!!!AGAIN FIRST ONE!< BEST CONSOLE BUDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Tim Shundo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Your welcome! ;)

[Brandon @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

OMG, Im speechless.

[wxrman @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Why does that hard drive look like an add-on?

[zee @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

"Why does that hard drive look like an add-on?"

Who cares?!!? No really, who does?

[WOH! @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

HOLY SHIT!!! WATER COOLED!!!!!!!!!!!! SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NETWORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MP3 CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



speechless

[dibbs, in search of self @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

The designers were very motivated, but they didnt have the tallent and high standards to make something truly exeptional.

[Phrank @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

J Allard looks like such an idiot.

"What we really set out to do with Xbox 360 is TAKE ALL OF YOUR MONEY!"

[MC82 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

"The designers were very motivated, but they didnt have the tallent and high standards to make something truly exeptional."

And im guessing you could do better?

[MC82 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

"The designers were very motivated, but they didnt have the tallent and high standards to make something truly exeptional."

And im guessing you could do better?

[dan @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

um...3 watercooled 3.2 ghz power pc processors.....remember how the first xboxes overheated....this will be much much worse. I have this image of water leaking out and electrocuting everything while the silicon melts...I'll pass on this

[milas @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

My XBox never overheats, and it's almost always on. Maybe I just got lucky.

And yes, it's a strange design, but at least it looks semi-portable. And built in wireless sounds good for LAN parties.

[z22 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

first of all, its a COMPLETELY DIFFERERNT processor architecture. and its not 3 processors, its 3 cores.

watercooling means its cooled better than it could be with an aircooling solution. and im sure the water is completely sealed. its stupid to think it will leak all over. you think the engineers are retarded? "well how bout we watercool this sucker?" "ok, but how the hell do you do that?" "i dunno through some tubin in there an stuff" "k sounds good"

[narco @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

After watching that, I like, want to buy like, 5 of them or something.

Fishes,
narco.

[jon @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

whatever on the water cooling thing...dreamcast had that. microsoft swears its the wave of the future. the mtv special sucked, but this 5 minute video was great. cant wait to play that thing at e3!!!!!!!

[tom @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

This thing is SICK...if they don't make it backwards compatible im going to be pissed.

[milas @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

It looks like it will be backwards compatible judging by the Fable thumbnails, and what looked like Halo gameplay at one point.

[ming @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

its craz-zeeeeeeeee-ly powerful...

[Jason Lyx @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Nice... Love the controllers... When can I buy one?

[nevin5 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

I like my xbox and the new one looks good (quite a bit better actually).

But, come on, saying the design is based on an 'inhale'!?!? My mind is overheating (need water cooling) just thinking about all the negative spin that can get. Here�s one, 'Inhaling, isn�t that like sucking?' And the Clinton jokes, well I don�t want to go there.

Sorry Microsoft, don�t you have anyone over there editing this stuff? And how much cred am I supposed to give to a bunch of people who work together gush all over each other? I mean, a bunch of inbred knuckle-heads in a circle jerk do that, right?

Hey, Microsoft, try a little harder to be hip, really you�re almost there.

I do like what I see, both technically and aesthetically, but come on Microsoft, do you pay your marketing staff, or are they all interns?

[kiddanger @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

i didnt buy the first xbox cause it was hideous and only came in XL, i was also tired of bill gates taking over every aspect of my home. but i have to say, i am picking one of these up as soon as it comes out.

[ricky @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

i have cable and everything./... way is this video buffering evry 6 seconds... someone tell me how to download this as a whole then just watch it like that

[Tyner @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Ok yes its cool but what about a price point ?

Throw out some estimates im guessin 350-400

[rharvier @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Ricky, it might just be you. The vid clip ran smoothly for me.

[bc @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

bfd...

[dm @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

I agree that 360 should be backward compatabile, hear that MS BACKWARD COMPATIBLE!? I wouldn't bet to much on that though -- i saw the fable thumbnails as well but then i saw the "credits" after the full "colony" vid clip (ourcolony.net) and it clearly credits fable 2...

but hey i have heard from a hella lot of people that they werent going to include a harddrive and apprently they are....unless they don't include the drive out of the box since it is *detachable* ...

you know what they probably won't sell it with the unit. they will sell it seperately as they did with the dvd playback on the fcurrent xbox and then market the harddrive as a mp3 player a la ipod so they can charge us another 249 for the harddrive/mp3, yeah who wnats to bet they aren't gonna include it....speaking of did anyone notice the power button...remarkably similar to some fruit product i know....

[Pacey @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

"More truth where the music is watched"? It's a good thing the hype-machine told us MTV. Some people could have been confused since MTV hasn't shown a video when the sun is up in ages.(except for TRL, which doesn't count because they can't play even one uninterupted song)

[totalundone @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

One question:
How soon until it gets hacked so I can buy OSX 10.4 for it?

[Monmin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

This vid is really cool. From what I hear the Mtv thing was embarisingly retarded.

The specs on the 360 are unbelievable. I always assumed the PS3 would be the more powerful system, but not so sure about that anymore. Will wait and see.

I have a feeling the 360 software will be better than Sonys. I'm not so interested in Nintendo - just not my style is all.

[billy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

i cant see the video is there any way to download it?

[met @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

to download the clip : http://www.ourcolony.net/

[Maurice @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

1. Copy Apple's hardware (where have I seen water-cooled PowerPC chips?)
2. Bash Apple's best product (Gates: "I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run")
3. Profit

[brian @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

power pc? ha microsoft is using apple processors

[mike @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

the only thing cool about it is the OS, actually. Remember, if you know how lame gaming online is.. then you won't want one of these, but really, having an OS on there is very very very cool.

I'm sure it'll wear off after a month or so.. but that (X) button is freaking sweet..

[Power @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Do you guys think 3 PowerPC cores can out perform the cell processor? I dunno. This video was 100 times better then the stupid MTV show. Man that was pathetic and to think I wasted space on my Tivo to record it.. I feel dirty

[richard @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

brian and Maurice - power pc? ha apple is using a power pc. don't be so ignorant, the power pc processors are available for anyone, if you're so dense that you think APPLE makes the power pc processor, step outside and 'inhale'

[Mike @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

While Apple's G5 proc is based on Power PC architecture, this in no way means that the XBOX 360 is running an IBM Power 970 (Apple G5) @ triple core 3.2Ghz. These are no doubt specialized stripped down processors that do specific tasks, that's how they can get up to triple core 3.2Ghz. While impressive at first glace we shall see exactly how well these perform.

[semu @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

impressive specs, iMAC+PSone rip off design, "mirai" and timeless, so they said
it looks bulky (PS2 is big (version 1) but it looks slim cuz of the design)
it looks like a cableTV topbox, that OMG stands up straight (uuuh copied from ps2 hello)
and to prove how billgates is dominating the world, dooh it supports windows media extended (so u wanna play xbox? u need a PC, let's kill steve jobs). howabout a whole frigging windows on XBOX? ooh and how about a start manu and an xbox helper at the bottom right corner that pops up to lag your system?
ooh according to the marketing, futuristic green light that comes from the box (80's ghostbusters).
i think white light/color changing LED would work much better. it only takes may be a dollar more
ooh, it's ready to get online straight out of the box, yes, pay microsoft and u'll get xbox live service.
money will go into billgate's pockets byt hte time u hook up the baby. so cool.
look at what sony has done to psp, adhoc playing mode, or just HOST game urself for free
since it's so network oriented, i'm intersted in seeing how viruses will be targeted towards xbox360 (microsoft jsut can't write safe and reliable programs)
ooh in case u get hacked, u can switch the 20GB harddisk (it's really swappable btw)
and don't worry ur games will be fine, the driver is a DVD ROM not a burner.
and in case you get hacked, u can press F-U for help rite? and search thru the enlightening knowledge databse with that 12digit error code that somehow cannot be located at your region, and would u like to try again?

k. enough bashing for xbox.
now some compliments.
great great specs and great great graphics
hopefully a great price

let's see what PS3 has to show, bluray disc? HDDVD? (the hitachi deal? still going on)
plz, give us a better looking console

[sri @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

ooo looks like we hit some kind of nerve inside of semu..

go get a life semu and learn how to argue and most importantly learn to get proper evidence and finally learn how to put your message in paragraphs.

[kyle M @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

I think semu's complaining more about the security issues and AI customer services, which microsoft needs to improve I agree, just that he's being sacarstic; and you can't say he's wrong since we haven't seen much of the main manu on xbox360 yet. Look at longhorn, sometimes when microsoft tries to make things user-friendly it just turns away people (haha good one semu, that annoying office assistant)

I think I really can't judge when Sony and Nin haven;t announced their weapons yet, but I doubt if we have less to complain for those.

[semu @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

sri, evidence.
the green light was supported by the marketing (read the xbox360 dev interview)
xbox live is a pay service, of course.
mirai and timeless were quoted from dev interview too.

those how-abouts statements were supposed to be inductive and speculative.

i am not confident that microsoft can tackle network security problems as well as sony and nintendo from the windows experience. if they run xbox360 on the same customer service structure and philosophy of knowledge data base.

sri should first disprove my evidence before hitting "some kind of nerve inside" me

[Dusty @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

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[Kreamy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

If that machine looked like the PS2 (but white) and was branded apple, and ran a stripped down version of OS X, They would have my money.

Until then, fat chance. The PS3 images already look better (2 days to vegas, anyone). Plus SONY knows how to advertise, it doesn't think that teens are some stupid alternate lifeform and therefore has to create a totally 'rad' ad campaign for them.

The system looks like a VCR, by that i mean BUTT UGLY. Aesthetics are important for me when im going to be staring at the system for prolonged moments of time while i grumble under my breath downloading some ridiculous MS security update number 132a#23f6.

You're trying too hard, Bill. Only idiots want to pay for online gaming unless its an MMORPG.

The controller is nice, but thats about it. Better luck next time, Gates.

[Jason @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Can someone rip this to a download? My connection isn't fast enough to stream it. :(

[bruce m @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Was it just me or did everyone in that video look fat, old and tired? THESE are supposed to be the "cool people" who are inventing the future of gaming? Just watching them almost drained my entire reserve of life force. Seriously, "viewing between the lines" I sensed alot of disspointment and nervousness -- despite all the mtv style jump cuts and fashion photo tricks, the video still left me thinking "so what?" ... the first XBOX was way over hyped, and now this one is based on an ... INHALE? are they trying to imply it's a big toke on some cosmic joint? I think they were almost trying to imply that, but Balmer would rip their balls off if they actually went there.

Overall -- yaaaaawnnnnn. I'm SO much more excited by the PSP ...

Oh, and during the ENTIRE video, not one shot of an actual game? Just a few closups of some lame looking UI that's based upon the "ihale" metaphor???

SOrry of this post seems really negative, just sharing my thoughts as I watched M$'s state of the art propoganda piece ...

[Jason @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

About the backwards compatability: I don't see how they're going to do it without a hard drive since all the Xbox were written with an HDD in mind. However, it would be a nice bonus for the harddrive version of the Xbox360 to include support for older titles.

[niC @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Biased: "If that machine looked like the PS2 (but white) and was branded apple, and ran a stripped down version of OS X, They would have my money."

Kreamy
There is biased all over you post. It looks like you would only buy it only if it was made by any other company specifically apple/sony. Just cause Microsoft makes good money does not mean you have to hate... get over it!!!


The xbox-360 LOOKS AWESOME. Plus you always have custome face plates. And if you are comparing that the ps3 machine pic that out there is better looking then the xb0x 360 then you must be on crack or something. PS3 machine out there is the ugliest console out there if indeed is the same ps3 pic floating around the net...

semu
"iMAC+PSone rip off design"
How the heck those this look like an iMac/PSone... there is no way in hell they look similar or you must be retarded...

Microsoft has no worse security then any ather company. If you know what you are talking about then you should know that linux / Mac OS has a bunch of security holes. just the only reason Microsoft OS is exploited more often is because it's at 90% of the market.


Maurice
"1. Copy Apple's hardware (where have I seen water-cooled PowerPC chips?)"
hmmm... where have i seen a water cooled pc before? period. it's obvious that with 3 cores and at the speed of the processor you would need to water cooled it just like any system running those specs.

brian
"power pc? ha microsoft is using apple processors" don't be an idiot and know that IBM provides these processors to many other machines not only apple and there is no need to think just cause they are using a power pc that they are copying off apple... not at all...

Jon
"
15. Posted May 12, 2005, 10:20 PM ET by jon
whatever on the water cooling thing...dreamcast had that" Last i recall the dreamcast suck and since when has water cooling been propietary to only the one system. Also why is it when everyone see new products from microsft they move earth and heaven to say that they copy of some design/software/etc... stop the bit*ching and stop the hate...

Power
"34. Posted May 13, 2005, 1:46 AM ET by Power
Do you guys think 3 PowerPC cores can out perform the cell processor? " As far as power goest the cell processor is more powerful and it's a processor that would perform extremely well... but hear is the catch... the cell processor is more complicated and makes it harder for Game Developers to develop games for the machine it itself. it can only outperform other processors only if it's optimized correctly so it's up to the Game Developer if they want to invest the extra cash and time to develop games with optimization.

[marty @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Xbox360(crap name,crap design)and the pad(crap also).

Roll on PS3:)

PLAYSTATION WILL RULL YET AGAIN!!!

[Colin W @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Yay why couldnt they have just shown this clip on mtv. I wouldnt have endured so much pain had I known any of the information i got from this video.

[marty @ Dec 19th 2005 1:21AM]

Xbox360 backwards compatible(doubt it)

My reasons:

1.Different GPU,Xbox(nvidia),Xbox360(ATI)
2.Why bother anyhow(not many games to play on it anyhow)
3.Just get the PS3 and be done with it,and hav thousands of PS2 games too play on it(maybe even PSone).

PS3 will rock:)

PLAYSTATION WILL RULE YET AGAIN!!!