Good morning, friends. Let’s start the day right, with wholly speculative rumor:
I was at a concert for the band Linkin Park at the Meteora World tour about a month ago. After the show I went outside to meet Linkin Park and the opening band Story of the Year. After about 30 minutes of interesting conversations, they started talking about how they wanted to go play Halo (the band story of the year) and so I started up a conversation about Xbox. They kept on talking about how they link up their Xboxes with Linkin Park and play against each other on the road via wireless. Then after asking me to come play Halo with them, (which I didn’t get to do I had to go :@) they told me about a ‘smaller’ version of the Xbox which they had played Halo on when a MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE came to show them some new Xbox stuff. It was a compact version of the Xbox, much smaller than the original. Not as small as the Gamecube, but small. They said they played on it and it was in development. I had to go so I didn’t get any more information. Could this be a smaller version of the Xbox? Or was it really Xbox 2, which was BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE! (It played Halo!).
I know, “Linkin Park” and “interesting conversations” in the same sentence doesn’t do much for the validity of this rumor. I’m just sharing—a sort of breakfasty token of my love. Has anyone else heard of an Xbox redesign/slimming down before they launch Xbox 2? God knows they could trim things up a bit.
