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.