I was encouraged at the last Yulblog meeting to blog about games on occasion, so here goes.

Today, Toine presented the impressive features of the new Xbox, supposedly coming out later this year, and wondered why they called it the 360. I heard it’s to piss off Nintendo, whose upcoming next-gen console is the Revolution (360… Revolution… tsé).

The casing of the new Xbox is pretty frikkin ugly in my opinion, if you believe some images “leaked” a couple of weeks ago. A sort of stainless gizmo that’s kind of what an X-man’s laptop might look like, if you ask me.

Would also seem that we’ll get to choose between two consoles, with a sort of “lite” version being offered without the Web TV, the Wi-fi, and especially not backward compatible with the current Xbox. Rumor has it that for a mere 100$ US more you get all the goodies… including backward compatibility.

Which settles it for me: no, I’m not getting an Xbox now… and yes, I’m really looking forward to Christmas.