- LE JACOBO

It’s noto­rious that the only good things about the Micro­soft pre­sen­ta­tion on the E3 were the Pro­ject Natal Kinect addon and the NEW XBOX 360.

The fea­tu­res on the Kinect were widely cove­red, so let’s take a little look on the XBOX360;

At first sight it’s a playstation3-slim-ation of ye olde whi­tey; Wifi N, 250GB HDD, and Whis­per Silent (fina­lly, I was sick of the noise!) which is nice, and nee­ded for the time being.

From the press ani­ma­tion avai­la­ble on the XBOX Site there are a few fra­mes in which you can see the back of the con­sole; so I did this:

It’s pretty cool actua­lly, because at first sight you can see 4 USB Ports, ins­tead of 1 (on the back­side only), opti­cal audio out­put, and a what seems to be a rede­sig­ned Power input, pos­si­bly to a rede­sig­ned (sma­ller) Power Brick.

Now, that’s a lot of USB Ports, con­si­de­ring this new XBOX360 Slim still carries that little cap on the front in where reside the won­ders of two usb ports HERE:

So, what would all these USB ports be for: one for Kine­tic, one for a USB Sto­rage Device (which it’s pro­ven to be a lot fas­ter than atta­cha­ble HDD)

It seems that they’re doing it right this time they, remem­ber with Rock Band, you need a USB HUB? Well, not any­more. Remem­ber when you wan­ted to play movies from your exter­nal HDD on your XBOX, you nee­ded to plug it inde­co­rously on the USB ports on the front? (if you had a VERY EXPEN­SIVE Wifi Adap­ter) Well, not anymore.

Good for you, Microsoft.