One of the rarest xbox'x comes out of hiding

Well I have seen alot of rare and one of a kind xbox's but this one takes the prize. Link here http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_did_you_ever_hear_about_xbox_blue.php

This would go great with the mighty rare orange xbox live controller.
And who would of thought they were going to make the xbox logo blue instead of green.

 

I like that orange! I miss the old green/black. At least the Elite kind of brings it back.

 

Saw this earlier, I can see this go on ebay in a couple of years, or maybe in assembler forums who knows!

But godamit that thing is sexy...I want

 

Very nice!

 

Any chance that this is a fake? I.e. a 3rd party orange casing with a genuine silver Xbox badge attached? It's clearly just got a black base, so if this unit has been opened it would be difficult to establish whether it was not just something cobbled together from a variety of genuine and 3rd party parts without some far better images.

I'd like to see some 'Microsoft' stamps on that casing!

I find it amazing that such a console could have existed and until now nobody have heard or / seen one. I'd have liked full images of the entire casing, underneath and the front panel to confirm authenticity.

If it IS authentic then it certainly would be a very nice unit to see in the flesh. I love the orange memory card & the rare orange controller. It is possible that MS produced an orange console to go along with it all and then never went any further.

 

As Pikkon has just pointed out to me, if you look closer at the blown up image of the unit you can faintly see a Microsoft stamp on the casing. In which case, bloody hell! An Orange Xbox!

 

Awesome, I wish there were more orange consoles. Would love to get my hands on it.

 

Well it looks like one of a kind xbox,hints why the top is only orange,a quote from the site.

 

I thought the rarest one would be the Silver X - the prototype.

But then again, it probably didn't have any guts.

 

^ it did indeed have guts

 

I thought the cheapo replacements were just tops? lol, jk :110:

I think it's real, and pretty cool lookin.

 

Thats a great bit of kit, i'd love to have this in my collection. I also can't believe its sat away untill now without anyone ever knowing it even existed.

 

Yeah? Never heard that. Was it similar to the alpha towers inside?

 

^ From what I remember no,I know OE knows quite a bit about them,I wish I could find the pics of with it all opened.

 

In the Museum in Redmond they have a gutless version on display... and when you see it, you would never imagine it being adapted into any home living room. The thing is a beast.

 

i know its not quite the same, but you can get a pretty close match with a 3rd party orange case, ive had a couple and the do look quite nice, specially with a matching orange madkatz wireless controller, plus of course the official orange memory card from the live beta test kits

link to the cases

http://www.consoleplus.co.uk/product_info.php?pName=replacement-case-kit-for-xbox-crystal-orange

 

The Xbox Live beta headset kit yes, but the console was always green (until now) lol

 

The headset was orange? I have one kit, and only the mem card is orange, the headset is black.

 

Same here, although the hardcase it all comes in is orange / silver

I have heard of other live beta kits that the headset had the live account's gamertag etched on it, but have never seen one of these