Is this the new slim XBox 360?

By on Sep 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Rumor September 25, 2008

The shot above certainly seems to verify the existence of a new, slimmer XBox 360 in the wild. The image comes to us courtesy of noted Microsoft pundit Paul Thurrott, who published the image as part of a recent review of the new Microsoft Arc mouse. While the XBox in the background wasn’t intended to be part of the presentation, it couldn’t help but show it’s face and add fuel to the rumor mill fire. A new variant of the aging gaming system has been rumored for quite some time, and the box depicted in the image doesn’t look too far off from what we would imagine the refreshed system to look like. That said, there’s also a chance that this speculation is the result of an little optical tomfoolery. What do you think? New XBox or absurd speculation?

UPDATE: Sadly, this rumor has been shot down by Mr. Thurrott himself, who explains that the appearance of a “slim XBox 360″ is a regular issue XBox 360 that has been warped by the camera angle.

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  • andrewkfromaz

    Debunked already. Come on, BGR.

  • Tyler

    this was debunked before you even posted it BGR, come on.

  • 216

    ha

  • Paul

    And even it was a slim version, big frickin’ deal. There would be nothing else about it that’s special.

  • Galvatron

    either way it STILL suffers from RROD

  • Joey

    “Aging”? Think you’d have a hard time calling any of the nex-gen systems aging. PS2, Dreamcast, N64.. *those* are aging.

    Oh and Galvatron = troll.

  • I dont Beleive him

    He is lying if you take the image above and compare it in any image program (crop and attempt to layer over) you will see that it does not match secondly the left IS slimmer he claims nothing has changed;

    Yet the xboxes are pushed deeper in from the side cabinet; whichis different from the original shots.

    - look at the edges they are not the same.
    - and on the left one front is not flat as the on the right
    -if you increased the brightness in the image you will also see a difference in the top grill
    the one on the right is larger and the one on the left has some distinctive larger holes in it.

    All of which are now identical int he pictures he recently took

    Someone in kahootz(kahutz – sp?) with Microsoft as he is does not keep a RROD xbox around especially without a hd in it. EVEN IF YOU DONT have the “connections” with MS their unspoken for warranty supports the RROD issue for up to 5 years.

    all he did was get a replacement(probably has a few laying around) in order to quell the rumors and being the person who “outed” the box.

    there is more but people stop eating everything put on your plate challenge challege challenge.

    I hate you all you all disgust me!!

  • Michael Zimmerman

    Yall niggaz is bitchs cuz…none of yall wanna see me at halo
    GT: o 187KILLA

  • videolion

    What the Hell, if it is slimmer cool!! But if not what the hell is the fat bitch next to it?

  • Dogzwild2k1

    i agree with “i dont believe him”…he is only saying that so people can go out and buy the current one while this one rolls out by holiday season…….if it really isnt true….he would definately had a better excuse…..like “yeah, that is my handcrafted xbox 360 and since i am so far up the microsoft ladder….i can tell hardware engineers to design me one with all the money we got from all those people who bought windows vista Ultimate 64-bit(399.99) and maybe J. Allard will think about releasing it to the public but for now…thats MY xbox 360″
    if it doesnt come out…it whatever to me because i dont like xbox 360 too much…..and it it does….ill laugh for this guy lying to the public with a really bad excuse and feel good about myself not believing this rich sack of shit!

  • JaggedXJ

    I also call shenanigans. I would be likely to believe him if the slimmer console was near the corner. Why would the one closest to the corner (potential distortion on a crappy camera) look fine, but the one closer to the center of the pic be “distorted”? I sense ass-covering.

  • Al

    Thanks Michael for putting us educated African Americans back a few years with your dumbass, off topic, trolling comment:|

  • http://www.xbox-kinetic.net/ kinect deals

    Yeah, that’s
    the slimmer model of Xbox 360 and it’s already out in the market, the slimmer
    model Xbox is good if your table had a small space for the old Xbox 360 model
    and Monitor.  It’s good that there is
    slimmer Xbox that been made, unlike the old Xbox model with huge body that
    heavy and hard to find a place for it to fit.
     

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