Microsoft Tries to Plug Xbox 360 Leak

Between the images of the Xbox 360 being shown on the ourcolony.net web site and the leaked image of the final design it appears that the leaked image is indeed the final design of the Xbox 360. The images from outcolony.net match up perfectly with the leaked image and now spong.com has a very interesting article detailed Microsoft's attempts to plug the Xbox 360 image leak.

Basically the article details how many gaming publications already had the picture of the Xbox 360 from the "front-on" but could not release the image until May 12. But it seems that somewhere within Europe the image was first leaked and soon after quickly spread over the Internet. They also suspect that someone at MTV may have leaked a second image (pictured above), an actual photograph of the removable 40GB hard drive. The only reason for this speculation is that the press only has access for the "front-on" image so the hard drive image had to come from a different source.

Interestingly enough there is still more for eager Xbox 360 to discover, including the view from the back as well as a view of the controller. But did Microsoft really expect to keep this a secret until May 12 after sending the image to thousands of gaming journalists throughout the world?