The next generation...

[Bear-Max]

With the Xbox 360 being officially unveiled on 12th May, on MTV (in America; I think it's on MTV UK the next day), it seems that the battle of the next gen consoles is getting underway.

So far all that has been mentioned for the other consoles are tech specs, which aren't very interesting, but E3 should bring the consoles out in all their glory.

Leaked photos of the Xbox 360 show that it looks a lot sleeker, and more of a smexy console all round. It's all white, and rumoured to have no wires at all; which means infra-red controllers will come as standard. It's also supposed to be available in 2 different packages - one with a hard drive (as the current Xbox is; but it is rumoured that it may come with a few inbuilt games) and one without a hard drive. There will obviously be price differences, but a hard drive means you wont have to fork out on an expensive memory card, and you'll be able to store music. With the Xbox Live community being successful already, online will probably be a standard feature.

What I'd like to know is, which of the "Big 3" consoles will you be buying?

• Microsoft Xbox 360
• Sony Playstation 3
• Nintendo Revolution

The first console to be hitting out shelves will be the Xbox 360, as it is rumoured to be releases (at least in America) but November of this year. Next year will see the PS3 and Revolution also released.

[Wootzeh]

ill post some pics
Xbox360:


Not too many revolutions :


Ps3:





personally xbox 360 looks sleeker but ps3 has better graphics and is supposed to be 3x faster than xbox360
dunno about revolution not too many pics

[Bear-Max]

Thanks for all the pics

The PlayStation 3 is more of a guess than an actual picture. It was rendered by one of the games magasines, though I forgotten which >.<

I hadn't seen the Revolution pics before, but it does look an awful lot more stylish than the Gamecube. May well do better this time around.

Not sure about what graphics will be better - Microsoft has all the power it uses for it's PC's to pump into the Xbox 360. And who picked the name Xbox 360. Pffft, they should have gone with their original working project name: Xenon. I can understand why they didn't just use Xbox 2 though; it sublininally doesn't sound as advanced as PlayStation 3. People are bound to think that the PS3 is newer - especially parents looking for a present for their kids.