The New Xbox 360?

It appears the cat’s out of the bag so far as Microsoft’s upcoming hardware update is concerned. Italian website Console Tribe posted this rather angular image of the hardware revision, which appears to us as if Picasso was appointed as lead designer on the project. Our question today then is, what other artists should have taken charge instead?

5) Andy Warhol

Though Warhol’s famous Marilyns were actually an exploration of death and public image, our interest in his involvement is a little more commercially driven. A hardware revision with him at the helm, would doubtless consist of tens of models, each in a slightly different colour. Did he found Nintendo? Anyway, we’d keep one, and trade in the others…

4) Salvador Dali

It’d be hard to find yourself in a semi-conscious late night gaming coma if your console was basically a massive clock. Sure, it wouldn’t fit neatly between your DVD collection and chest of drawers, but then hardware seems to rotate in colour to create disharmony every half decade or so anyway. You know they’d only be selling you a melted timepiece this year to force you to buy a massive flaming skull five years down the road…

3) J Allard

Yeah, so the former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft during our format’s formative years may not be known for his artistic prowess outside of the company’s corridors, but seeing as this amendment is pretty much a spitting image of that console prototype which comprised a massive metallic X. Surely the man himself could top that?

2) Damien Hirst

He of the formaldehyde cows might have something to offer our hobby, too. We’ve all met insane collector types after all who polish and covet their hardware devices more than they would do their first born. Were that ever to happen. Encasing the console in a large tank of clear solution would put an end to fingerprints, and strengthen the case for DLC as replacing discs descends into a frankly dangerous farce. It’s a win-win.

1) Jackson Pollock

See-through case mods have been popular pretty much ever since home computing has existed. What could delight those of the neon light persuasion than a console composed entirely of indistinct dots, splattered onto a canvas in some high-tech asian laboratory? It’s the ultimate in cloud computing! Get it?