Gideon68

Truly, excellent work. Makes me want to buy an X-Box 360 on launch day.

LorenzoL

Thanks for the info on the Xbox 360.

It will make it easier for me when the time comes as to which to next gen system to buy.

Now is anybody willing to do this for the PS3 and Nintendo Revolution.

Centurion

Already done for the PS3. It's a sticky on the first page so you can't miss it. Someone has already volunteered to do the same for the Revolution but it's still early and Nintendo hasn't even really teased us with much yet.

LorenzoL

Thanks.

joshd2012

http://media.teamxbox.com/dailyposts...dimensions.jpg

Edit: Isn't the original Xbox something like 12x4x10? Doesn't that make the 360 bigger?

Edit2: For comparison, the PS2 is 12 x 3-1/8 x 7-1/4 inches.

Edit3: Fixed original Xbox specs. The 360 is actually the pretty much the same size in horizontal footprint, just not as tall.

Centurion

If these dimensions, as well as the ones you gave, are correct then the 360 is really only longer depth-wise. They flattened the thing to make it look more like a notebook.

joshd2012

Ah! You beat my edit by mere seconds! I've been reading over at TXB, and everyone is measuring their Xbox and its actually 10 deep, not 8. I've edited the post to reflect that.

Centurion

Either way, it looks like we can assume the footprint of the 360 to be pretty close to that of the Xbox.

Edited to add:
Unless you stand your 360 on its edge, of course.

xboxundone

nice work in putting this together thanks!

Josh H

So I guess the pics from before E3 that showed the 360 to be smaller than the PS2 (orginal not slim) were fake?

Centurion

Possibly so. However, I haven't seen the pictures you're referring to.

The dimensions posted by joshd were grabbed from TeamXbox so we're all still speculating.

joshd2012

Its official. Check out the xbox.com spec sheet for 360:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox360/factsheet.htm

Josh H

They were in a thread here, but I don't remember the title to search for it.

Had the Slim PS2, 360 and PS2 standing vertically side by side. 360 was a few inches taller than the slim PS2, and a couple inches or so shorter than the PS2.

edstein

How many people really care what the size of a console is anyway? As long as it fits my AV rack, i.e. is DVD/VCR player or smaller and doesn't weight more than my reciever, it's all good.

Flay

Josh H

Only reason I care is the x-box won't fit in the compartment under my TV where I like to keep my consoles (hate them in the regular A/V rack as they stick out like a sore thumb).

But I think it's a non-issue from the pic flay posted, the 360 should fit since it's a couple inches narrower.

Save Ferris

To be fair, I dont think that pic shows the hard drive on it. Thats probably an extra 1.5"?

Josh H

Doh!

Maybe it's inside now since they decided to go with only one model with an HDD, rather than one with and one without (that you could buy and add-on)?

POWERBOMB

Although I can't find it now, one of the gaming mags (EGM, Gamepro, etc) had in their artlicle that the 360 will not be backward game compatable. For me this is a key reason I would buy this system.

jeffdsmith

That "inhale" really does a nice job of making the unit look smaller then it is. I always despised the convexing of the current xbox, thought it made it look bigger too.

Josh H

I read that too, but it was old info.

The 360 will have limited backwards compatibility. Only certain games will be supported--full details aren't available yet on how this will work or what games will be supported.

But I agree, it's a big deal for me as well. Especially with the PS3 being compatible back to the PS1 and the Revolution with the GC and downloads of N64, SNES and NES games.

Save Ferris

I bet they will have the WHOLE xbox ctalog AVAILABLE for backwards compatability and have them online for download to allow you to play specific titles (for a price) but of course the 360 would come with the most popular ones already installed on the machine. Thats my theory.

jeffdsmith

This is sarcastic?

Save Ferris

Well no. From what I understand the older games have to be emulated with software and paid a royalty or license or whatever to Nvidia for the graphic card conversion.

So MS says the 360 will play the most popular games because its doing the software emulation and paying for them so we can play them. BUT if we want some other games maybe they would make them available at a price.

edstein

I think the issue with backward compatability would be the differences in the ATI vs Nvidia video drivers of the old and new system.