What appears to be the first image of an XBox 360 beta development kit has made its appearance on the Internet and has made fans of Microsoft's next-generation console, eager to find out more.
The device is black and in the image, besides the white controller, a large hard-drive add-on is unmistakable at the top. This add-on seems a bit to large to simply be a hard-drive and has kicked-off speculation regarding the new console. The most likely explanation for the size probably lies in the fact that this is a development kit and that nothing is final quite yet. XBox gamers seem taken by the use of the black color and many claim they would rather see an x360 in that color than any other.
The real significance of this evidence that beta DevKits are out, lies in the knowledge that game developers will now have the real XBox 360 hardware to work with, meaning that any x360 images and/or videos that surface from now on will represent accurate depictions of what the console's owners will get in about 6 months time. This is important news as most of the information regarding x360 titles we have, including that obtained during E3 2005 was generated by alpha kits which were made up of a PowerMac G5 (dual-processor) with a 256MB Radeon X850 card.
As launch time approaches we are about to find out what the next-generation games on the x360 will really look like.
