News - Microsoft takes the shine off Xbox 360

[HEXUS]

Glossy Xbox 360s being phased out to be replaced by matte consoles.

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[HW_90]

now if only all screens could be matte...

[Speed]

This is definately a good move, although Sony got there first with the slim and it was a welcome change. Not a great lover of gloss stuff, it is destracting if light hits it and shows up finger marks and scratches like nothing else.

[crossy]

Glossy XBox360s being phased out to be replaced with matt consoles

I asked my friend Gollum, and he said:

Me likes the magic box ... the precious ... it shines, it glows like a dragons eye, it letses us hit Saruman in Crackdown, and beat Sauron in NeedForSpeed. Now nasty Microsoft hobbiteses want to take the precious, and leave me with new magic box like orc skin ... me no like the nasty orcses, me no like the nasty Microsoft with their orc skin boxes ... give me the precious back, me needs it, me wants it.

And I agree - I quite like the gloss boxes, and they're not that difficult to keep clean (a bit of spectacle cleaner sprayed onto a soft cloth works for me). That said, if I had a matt XBox then it would match the Coolermaster HAF932 case that it's next to - so maybe there's an argument either way.

[andrewtorr]

love my glossy xbox, never had a issue with marks as i don't continually touch it cos I choose to actually play on it....