Xbox 360 250GB first unboxing!

We've unboxed our first 250GB Xbox 360 (the Xbox 360 'Slim' to the layman) and we've gotta tell you: it felt good. Stand by for more shots.

Update: Here they are, we've got video on the way as well. Here are some initial thoughts:

• The touch sensitive buttons quickly asserted themselves as not-the-best-thing-ever when we were unable to tell if we'd turned the Xbox on under the bright lights of Microsoft's setup. We're sure we'd see the green glow easily in our dark entertainment center at home, but it's a small little inconvenience -- one that PS3 owners are well aware of.
• The touch sensitive eject button isn't so bad, because the tray seems uber fast -- we didn't clock it, but we'd say it pops out faster than our existing Xbox.
• The Xbox feels just about as heavy as the existing Xbox, although the power adapter is smaller and much lighter.
• We booted up Alan Wake and while we were in a relatively loud room, we didn't find the Xbox to be loud at all. We'll have to get it in the labs to see how it stacks up with the original, but Microsoft obviously had noise pollution in its sights here. They worked directly with the drive manufacturer to reduce every source of noise (including air turbulence!), and dub their accomplishment "whisper quiet."
• This is a personal opinion, but we think it looks pretty badass in person, though not at all a wild shift from the existing look.

Update 2: We've got video after the break! It's very exciting, we assure you.

Xbox 360 250GB first unboxing!

[Oghowie Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:33PM]

That's a pretty ugly box.

[tmfair Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:35PM]

@Oghowie ?

[Spaldinggreat Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:35PM]

@Oghowie I want a box I can keep in public and show off to people. Boxes, to me are the most important thing about a console. /Sarcasm font.

[glow Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:36PM]

@Oghowie ?

[techlord Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:37PM]

@tmfair

Elite has better box.

[n1hmrd Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:37PM]

@Oghowie can i have the box please

[coolpal Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:37PM]

@Oghowie don't care... WANT one

[Bakerdk Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:37PM]

@Oghowie ?

[wack Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:39PM]

@n1hmrd
....*goes to change pants*

[Yoda Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:39PM]

@Oghowie
Please go make a better 4 sided object then.

Well, go on. We're all watching.

[commenter7 Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:41PM]

@Oghowie

It's a bloody box

would you buy shit if it was decorated in a fancy box?

[huffy15 Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:41PM]

@Spaldinggreat might be interesting for a smashmyxboxstealthbox

[The Batman Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:42PM]

@Oghowie You have a pretty ugly face. Now stop before I burn half your face off. You know I can do it!

[cutter07 Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:42PM]

@qmartman711 YES!!! Please show the power brick, in comparison to the old one maybe?

[custmmade Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:45PM]

@Oghowie im not even going to lie....the new xbox is ugly

[Paul Elmy Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:45PM]

@custmmade

THERE'S A POWER BRICK?! URGHHHHHHHH ! -.-

[Toss3 Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:45PM]

@Yoda

In this universe a box has 6 sides.

[Oghowie Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:47PM]

@custmmade Exactly.

People all butt hurt over my comment. Hilarious.

[SolidSnake Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:50PM]

@cutter07
There is no power brick.
Internal PSU FTW.

[Lord Vader Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:51PM]

@Toss3 There's no point, he's so old he has probably lost his reading and hearing abilities never mind the force

[DougieBear Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:51PM]

@custmmade

I agree, as a designer I know they were going with the whole "kin" theme along their whole range of products but somehow the look of this device seems somehow halfway through a development cycle. Almost as if they took some inspiration from one of those angular PC cases tweaked it a bit then left it at that. The box the device comes in, I think needs a similar black sleek finish aswell it's almost identicle to the old one. You don't have to agree with me.

I'm looking forward to kinect as much as the rest of you.

[A Brown Kid Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:57PM]

@Oghowie
who the hell was looking at the box?
everyone just throws aside that thing anyway.

this seems like a 'it's not the pants, it's what's underneath them' lesson to me, lmfao

[elckicker Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:10PM]

@SolidSnake THERE IS A POWER BRICK! DO YOU NOT SEE IT IN THE PICTURES. IT IS VERY SLIGHTLY SMALLER BUT THERE IS A POWER BRICK. This new Xbox is uglier than crap. And they barely did anything to it. I'm not upgrading

[Meekermoloko Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:12PM]

Proprietary hard disk ... again?!?!?!?!?!

Microsoft ... why?

[fflow Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:29PM]

@Meekermoloko Why? Because MS wants you to buy the drives from them for far more than market price. Stop asking silly questions.

[naz Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:32PM]

@elckicker

I'd take the xbox slim over crap anyday

[jjl207 Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:02PM]

@commenter7

You'd be surprised how many people would buy things that are just in pretty boxes.

[TSSaloic Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:12PM]

@elckicker Ok, it's not really an upgrade, it's just a new SKU.

[AiRSK Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:15PM]

@techlord Elite doesn't have built in wifi 802.11/n

[Tuxy79 Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:16PM]

@Paul Elmy
Seriously, the PS3 looks to be just as small with an integrated PS. There's the first chink in the armour.

[manofchao5 Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:33PM]

@Oghowie
dude im a ps3 owner and i admit i want one "get bent"
op: anyway i dont have a problem telling if ps3 turned on because it makes a nice "BEEP!" when the button/s is/are touched

[Dsi2play Posted Jun 14th 2010 6:45PM]

@Oghowie
ahh man they still didnt add the slot loaded drive. When wil this start to be a standard on modern diskdrives. I hope this will change soon.

[Stephanie C Posted Jun 14th 2010 7:11PM]

@Oghowie

Oh some on, it's not bad!! It looks more compact than the current box, which is actually good IMO.

[MarcinK Posted Jun 14th 2010 7:17PM]

@AiRSK yea it does

[cinematech Posted Jun 14th 2010 7:41PM]

@Meekermoloko It looked to have SATA connections. Maybe it is in an enclosure that can easily be swapped out.

[Dogcowsaysmoof Posted Jun 14th 2010 8:04PM]

@Android looks Hacked Together Beforing calling other people morons, actually bother to understand what he's talking about. A hard disk/drive (used for internal Xbox storage) is not the same thing as the DVD (used for games).

[njnightmare Posted Jun 14th 2010 9:57PM]

@tmfair Thank you best buy warranty im defiantly breaking my special edition xbox 360 for this in july

[frohawk17 Posted Jun 14th 2010 11:05PM]

@qmartman711 you gotta remember it microsoft haha

[jesuispasbavard Posted Jun 15th 2010 1:46AM]

@Oghowie

iCame.

[moemoekyun Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:34PM]

Terrible.

[CityZen Posted Jun 14th 2010 8:17PM]

I'm just hijacking this comment to ask Engadget:

Crack it open please! Let's have a teardown and see the internals.

Or at least point me to someone who's done it already. Thanks!

[Otto MCR Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:34PM]

Thanks for teasing us like this. >.>

Get some video too.

[TofuSama Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:42PM]

@Otto MCR
At least you can see the images, the Engadget Gallery doesn't work on any browser, in either Mac OS X or Windows 7.

[shadowsparten Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:35PM]

I like it. I want to go buy one. I modded my DVD drive firmware and my xbox has been screwy ever since. Any ideas when stores will be selling it?

[EggoEspada Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:46PM]

@shadowsparten By next week I assume..

[tobsmonster2 Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:01PM]

@shadowsparten
Thinking about playing Halo:Reach on this is getting me really excited.

[Mystictrust Posted Jun 14th 2010 5:15PM]

@shadowsparten End of this week. They stated they are shipping to stores as of today

[codename6 Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:35PM]

Is the power supply built in?

[CodeRed Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:36PM]

@codename6
Yes.

[DazGenetic Posted Jun 14th 2010 4:42PM]

@CodeRed Prepare to be disappointed. Thought the power supply has been greatly reduced in size. It's still an external brick.