Consoles... the big news for the weekend.

The big news in the console world is Microsoft annouced details on their next generation console. It was unveiled on MTV over the weekend.

The next-gen console is a tower of chilled white and chrome accents wrapped around a heart of graphics-pumping, teraflop-churning gaming goodness.
The 360 is a sleek console that lives in high-def sound and video, can extract media from your PC or mobile devices and can change it’s look to fit your personality.
The console comes with a wireless controller, a small removable 20 GB hard drive and built-in HD DVD playback. You will also be able to buy a digital camera, a WiFi adapter and up to three more wireless controllers for the console.

Probably the biggest surprise though is the news that it may not be backwards compatible. This is such a surprise as it's this feature that has be credited with taking the PS2 to the number one slot in the current generation of consoles.