There. You can see it above. Reportedly this ad for an upcoming black Xbox 360 "Slim" (doesn't look that slim) popped up on Italian gaming website Console Tribe. It has since been taken down, but the internet is faster than that and grabbed a shot of it.
The ad said the new 360 would have a 250GB HDD, built-in WiFi (it's a miracle!) , and compatibility with "Kinect." The general assumption, which could be 100 percent wrong, is that Kinect is the actual name of Project Natal. Some digging through the source of Console Tribe shows that Microsoft owned ad company Atlas Solutions pushed the ad and image automatically to the site. The ad linked back to Microsoft's Italian page.
Video of the ad in action below.
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7:15 PM on 06.13.2010 | 
ugh.
I like natal better.
Don't know how I feel about the name, "Kinect". Yeah, it's a play on "Kinetic" but.....no one cares that a console is called Wii so, meh. We'll get used to it, even if Natal has been carved into everyone's brains.
http://i50.tinypic.com/b3u7hd.jpg
why does everything have a slim version
Better than the Wii or Move. Natal always reminded of me of birth so glad it's gone.
If the motherboard is redesigned, which it will be for any different shaped xbox, it would be very easy for them (with the knowledge they now have of rrod) to wipe out the problem entirely.
and how long has microsoft known the problem of RRoD before the 360 "Sleek" leak?
Of course not. Eff those guys and their platform that houses games I'd really like to play.
Either way in-built wifi and, one would assume due to redesign, a proper motherboard fix? Hmmm, it may serve as a replacement should my current 360 go pop any time soon.
I'm not sure if I like it or not. I might trade in mine if it's cheap enough (...and if it's actually real, although I assume it is).
ive had my 360 since day one i play it every day (explodin super mutants) and it hasnt RRod
Also, I'm being told that Destructoid's main page is trying to phish me... Anything going on I should know about?
Poet... didn't know it... Yadda yadda...
only reason I can see this in my house is for the built in wifi. but that's not enough for me.
and yea. more of a Xbox 360 "Sleek" then a Xbox 360 "Slim".