[360] RE: Size

Originally Posted by Solis

Mostly because of the hardware they put in it. The original Xbox was large mainly because it used an internal power supply and had a built in 5 1/4 inch harddrive. The Xbox 360 seems to be huge mainly because of it's cooling system (so it wouldn't surprise me if they make it smaller later on). The power brick is abnormally huge, but probably because the system needs twice as much power as the Xbox.

As far as consoles like the Gamecube and Revolution being "well-designed"...umm, it's pretty easy to make something small when you don't use any parts that use up much space. Take the Gamecube, make the power supply internal, add a sliding out tray, add a 5 1/4 in hard drive, and ethernet port, make the disc tray full sized...hey, suddenly you have an an Xbox! It's fine that they like to make it small, but it's a little silly comparing the size of two systems when they have a totally different features. OMG the DS is a failure design, it's like twice as big as the GBA!

Not that I agree or disagree, but nothing modern uses 5 1/4" hard drives, they all use 3.5" .

Jam it back in, in the dark.