Posted Feb 10, 2007 at 01:14PM by Ryan A. Listed in: News Tags: Microsoft, Taiwan, HDMI, Australia
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As many of you know by now, there have been a lot of reports about the black Xbox 360 supposedly arriving in the Land Down Under this April. A lot have speculated whether this is the Zephyr/Xbox 720, a much improved version of Microsoft's current console. To make things more interesting, the black console was sighted in Taiwan during the Taipei Game Show.

Now, gaming site Tweak Town was able to take a few snapshots of the said console. However, it is curious that no HDMI port can be found at the back of this specific Xbox 360. Also, Tweak Town reports that there's no extended storage capacity from the HDD. We know it's quite disappointing but if anything, at least we are certain now that the black console exists.

Also, we'd like to point out that earlier reports mentioned that this console will cost US$ 584 in Australia. If this is just a regular Xbox 360, albeit different in color, why is it more expensive as compared to a normal Xbox 360? We wonder if this baby has something else up its sleeves...


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   by i am first and u are not (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » ha

hahaha

   by Mdubz - 2007-02-10
 » wow

Thats just a black case. You can buy them anywhere and put them on a regular xbox. Nothing special here.

   by Shatterdome - 2007-02-10
 » Uhm...

This isn't the "Zephyr" or whatever, look at the back, it's just a normal black xbox...which would be nice, I would prefer black, but whatever...


   Re: ! (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » THEN GET A PS3

.....dumb ass !
   by lolz (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » pwned

my 360 is already black i win :)


   Re: Shatterdome - 2007-02-10
 » I could easly paint mine...

and it would be glossy too....but I don't care enough to do it. I worry about functionality, not aesthetics...

   Re: asd (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » White looks better

Xbox 360 looks better in white, look at sales in Japan of the PS3 its flopping, Keep the 360 white its starting to sell more than PS3 in Japan slowly but surly.
   by RYAN SUCKS (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » HEY RYAN READ THIS

These retards that post these blogs are such idiots! Who pays these fools! It's fact that the original Xbox 360 Devkits were black. So.. obviously they exist you jackass. ( I mean Ryan A.)


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   Re: kev (Unregistered) - 2007-02-12
 » doh

Indeed, I'm surprised someone POSTING on a 360 blog has no clue about this... Oh noes a black box, it must be a zephyr with 400gb hd, oh noes where is the hdmi, it's another version of zephyr i think.. FFS get a clue and do just a _little_ research... DEVKITS
   by NaK (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » O.o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z7a2dxN6T0

   by Fallen (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » .

You wanna know why it will cost more when converted from Australian currency?. Because Aus gets ripped off, Always.

Look at the console prices in Aus then compare them to the US dollar, Even after conversion we get ripped.

   by Messiah (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » Black Xbox

That thing looks huge


   Re: aw (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » Black Xbox, Giant PS3

First its not real and second I bet its still smaller than the Foreman grill.
   by MJMaskrey (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » Black Xbox

.....and the Serial sticker has a 2005 manufacture date on it.

   by Devise (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » ...

The manufacture date on the back looks like 2005-09-14, which is way too old to be Zephyr. Besides, I don't think MS would release a new version of the 360 without the 65nm CPU upgrade. The 360 dev kits are black also.

   by sigh (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » ...

The writers for QJ are ignorant. That's a dev kit.. >_

   by Ge64 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » hdmi?

but what if it is the zephyr? that would be good nes right, cuz that could mean HDMI is supported using the existing xbox a/v connector (so maybe there will be a hdmi cable for all xbx360s)!?

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   by Ge64 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » stickers

oh and btw, this is a picture of a devkit:

http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/x360dki.jpg

the stickers on the back dont rly look like the sticker on this black 360. and btw, it does say 'Xbox 360 Console'. however, the small square sticker beneath it seems to say' Reviewers kit'... oh well..

also, if you compare the 2 pictures, you can see the devkit's a/v connector is shiny and this black 360's cable isnt.

AND the devkits have a huge thing in the place of the harddrive, which again this black 360 does not have.

   by sfafd (Unregistered) - 2007-02-10
 » asdfaf

if nobody has noticed yet. there is an hdmi port just above the ethernet port...


   Re: smarter than you (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » dumbass

thats the usb port genius.
   by Silenthalo (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » Painted

I believe this case was simply painted black, nothing more. If you look at the 2nd pic, you can see that the inside walls of the fan exhaust holes are still white whereas a custom case would likely be molded from actual black plastic. Surely isnt the new "Zephyr" 360.


   Re: sigh...smarter than you as well (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » thats not part of the case

The white part your referring to is actually the metal mesh that forms the inner metal case of the 360. The holes in the metal line up exactly with the holes in the plastic case, so they're not visible until you see them at an angle.

The one thing that is logical to this not being the zephyr is the 2005 date of manufacture.

The lack of HDMI port is irrelevant because in the leaked video of it (a month or so ago) you could see it was directly below the video out port, so with a video cable connected you would not be able to see it any way.

What i want to know is why are there game names written on the HDD? is it because it's a reviewers console and he can launch games off the HDD to review them???
   by boo (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » hmm

these are prop crappy models too like now that crash and get 3 red lights, im not gettin another 360 till i no there stable enough to last a long time


   Re: boo hoo (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » hmmm what

Oh really YAWN you must be one of the unlucky few then eh,anyway a few of the very first model may of had a problem but that was fixed immediately , bound to happen with the technology a year ahead of the competition,but look what it has achieved , backed by 99% of game developers and a game library the competition can only dream of.
   by Ge64 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » omg

" » asdfaf

if nobody has noticed yet. there is an hdmi port just above the ethernet port..."

dude thats the USB port like on every xbox.. omg

   by Ge64 (Unregistered) - 2007-02-11
 » painted? wtf

" » Painted

I believe this case was simply painted black, nothing more. If you look at the 2nd pic, you can see that the inside walls of the fan exhaust holes are still white whereas a custom case would likely be molded from actual black plastic. Surely isnt the new "Zephyr" 360."

mmwell u see it is greyish yeah, but doesn't mean anything. you say it would be molded from black plastic, but the replacement front panels that are available right now look just like that, grey except for the front. so i don't think so...

   by FAKE (Unregistered) - 2007-02-12
 » FAKE

how come the plastic under the usb flap is WHITE

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   by x';",)` (Unregistered) - 2007-02-15
 » 80000002

80000002

   by Mister Common Sense (Unregistered) - 2007-02-26
 » Ooooh

Damn that is sexy. Almost looks as good as a PS3 does. I hate white / green... Too bad it's still that ugly square box thingy..

   by x';",)` (Unregistered) - 2007-03-01
 » 80000002

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