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Mute Xbox 360 gamers with fat hands and tiny fingers, rejoice!

It seems an official attachable keyboard for the 360 controller is on the way. Gamespot, who post the story earlier today, has since yanked the post. Still, the eyes and ears of the internet are not easily deceived.

From their MIA story:

While Microsoft's Xbox 360 Spring Update will integrate Windows Live Messenger into the system's dashboard for cross-platform chatting, the machine's text-window interface for standard control pads makes lengthy conversations a chore.

To ease the task of typing in messages without the aid of a full-sized keyboard, Microsoft today announced a new text input device for the Xbox 360 controller. The attachment snaps onto the bottom of the controller through the headset jack and features a QWERTY-style key layout with 47 keys.

This is not the first time we've seen this attachment, as it originally appeared on a slide show during a Microsoft presentation back in 2005. While a price has yet to be announced (neither has the peripheral, for that matter...), Gamespot mentioned a summer release date. You know, before the magical PR fairy came and yanked the story.

Oops.

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iRaf 's Avatar
iRaf at 04/08/2007 21:33
sweet!
pkhilson's Avatar
pkhilson at 04/08/2007 21:38
WTF, that looks real comfortable...
I'd rather just play an online game completely silent, not into those games that you need to communicate much as opposed to blowing people away.
Hipple's Avatar
Hipple at 04/08/2007 21:40
yeah... i'm not gonna buy that...
BlindsideDork's Avatar
BlindsideDork at 04/08/2007 21:41
um...a keyboard?
MooCow's Avatar
MooCow at 04/08/2007 21:44
i am so buying that.
HawtPawkitHero's Avatar
HawtPawkitHero at 04/08/2007 21:46
This can't be real...
BlindsideDork's Avatar
BlindsideDork at 04/08/2007 21:52
your mom cant be real!
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Shipley at 04/08/2007 21:59
http://www.planetgamecube.com/media/2389/1/9342.jpg

I've played many games using that oofball Gamecube keyboard controller, and that only supported ONE game. This 360 keyboard will be supported by lots of existing dashboard functions and new ones.

I think this is a great idea.
SuperDave's Avatar
SuperDave at 04/08/2007 22:00
Oh hells yes, the Atari Jaguar pad has been reborn!!!!


Seriously though, I can't see myself using this but it's nice to have the option.
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ohgr89 at 04/08/2007 22:04
is that the actual pictures they have? or a concept? cause the headset wouldn't hook into that. haha. and if it is the basic idea, it appears as if the actual controller size has been kept the same. and where you actually grip is kept the same proportion. which is nice. just cut the weight of it and it could be a nice inclusion.
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newton64 at 04/08/2007 22:08
SuperDave, I love you.

Pause - Option - 6 - 1&3 - B - A - 9 - A - 9 - A - * - Option - 6 - # - * - * - Option - 2 - Option.

/Best code ever.
//AvP ftw
///...and that was just to enable codes. wtf.
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SuperDave at 04/08/2007 22:09
ohgr89 -
I'm assuming it's the concept because the have the round port for the headset but not the "slits" on each side.
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SuperDave at 04/08/2007 22:10
lol newton64, don't get too excited. I never owned a Jaguar (one of the few systems I never did) but I immediately thought of the Jaguar pad when I saw this.
BFeld13's Avatar
BFeld13 at 04/08/2007 22:12
That looks like a photoshop, but if it retails for under 20 bucks, I'm sold.
Ignus's Avatar
Ignus at 04/08/2007 22:13
You missed the T in QWERTY!
As for the pad itself... is that really what it will look like? I'd much rather have one that plugs in via a wire, so it doesn't get in the way of the hands.
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BlindsideDork at 04/08/2007 22:16
that is PhotoShop!

concept photo
deanhatescoffee's Avatar
deanhatescoffee at 04/08/2007 22:34
Why don't they just... you know... release a real keyboard?

BTW, Blindside - I frickin' LOVE that soccer (futbol) avatar of yours. I meant to say something about it a while ago, but I never did. Hilarious.
ZeeJayTL's Avatar
ZeeJayTL at 04/08/2007 22:48
USB Keyboard FTW!
velcroman's Avatar
velcroman at 04/08/2007 22:56
if it were a QWERTY keyboard i'd get it, but a QWERY keyboard, i need my Ts.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 04/08/2007 23:33
Damn you magical PR fairy!
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2bad4u at 04/08/2007 23:42
I like Live Messenger better than AIM, but almost no one I know has it. If the 360 was to support AIM then I'd be incredibly happy to finally not need my glitchy slow computer for pretty much anything except surfin the web. I probably wont buy the QWERTY controller though since i already have a usb keyboard attached to my 360. This could turn out to be a great update though.
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BritiniMartini at 04/08/2007 23:48
lol that first picture... Too bad I don't speak spanish.
This looks kinda cool
hyperion's Avatar
hyperion at 04/08/2007 23:59
This is a 'shop job if I've ever seen one.

Actually, it's not a 'shop -- it's a fucking render.

I call BS.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 04/09/2007 00:11
That doesn't look awkward at all.
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MYL0R at 04/09/2007 00:25
If this is a cheap add on, I'll probably buy one when I find it used, or when some crack head trades it in at the game store in town, I'll just have my friend pay him a few bucks for it and get it really cheap.
But honestly, I just unplug my computer keyboard and plug it in my 360, which doubles in purpose to keep my mom off my computer.
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AngelsDontBurn at 04/09/2007 01:28
THANK YOU SUPERDAVE, I swear that was the SAME thing I thought. Hahaha.

JAGUAR CONTROLLER RESURRECTED! As long as it's comfortable though, I'm cool with it!
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jeffk6 at 04/09/2007 01:52
why do they always have to make the biggest fucking controlers man
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JimJim at 04/09/2007 03:13
looks pretty ridiculous and fake.
also, retarded.
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Rainbowblack at 04/09/2007 03:27
I still Use the USB keyboard from the Logitec Keyboard/controller doohickey for PS2 back from when i used to Play EQoA. and it serves me just fine

I doubt i'll buy this, but i'll admit that it's pretty darned sweet.
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 04/09/2007 04:01
Rumor CONFIRMED!!

check Major Nelsons Flickr photostream, go to his site and check his post on the Dashboard update, there will be a liunk to his Flickr profile with all the pics
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 04/09/2007 04:03
ohshit looks what else i found browing through it



YEEEEEES!!
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bleep at 04/09/2007 05:32
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DalaiLiam at 04/09/2007 09:45
Yeah... That "render" isn't even correct. For an "Add-on" they rendered it without any seam to the controller, and when holding a controller up to the screen to match shape, it doesn't even line up. Lazy microsoft.
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itemforty at 04/09/2007 10:36
I'm actually liking this idea, but I've been typing on a keyboard like this for a while now. I can blaze through some text with my thumbs like an... animal that... uses it's... er.
plyr3005's Avatar
plyr3005 at 04/09/2007 14:29
hey guys, I are typing this from my 360!
vgfreak30's Avatar
vgfreak30 at 04/10/2007 03:58
probably not real, looks more like a render than a photoshop job like some others here said. But if they make something resmbling that only smaller and such for under $20, then im sold
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