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New car to Have x-box 360 in backseat.

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DETROIT (Reuters) - Get in the driver's seat. Adjust the rearview mirror. Boot up the XBox 360.

To some young drivers, a car that's also a video-game system may sound like a dream come true -- or so Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. hopes with a new concept car aimed at gamers.

Nissan's Urge sports car, introduced at the North American International Auto Show here this week, is a prototype where the steering wheel and pedals become game controllers when the car is still. The mirror conceals a small flip-down screen. The dashboard conceals a Microsoft Corp. game console.

The Urge may be one of the more extreme examples of a trend to introduce more entertainment features to help differentiate a vehicle in a crowded marketplace, especially to a generation used to mobile phones and portable music players like iPods.


The new Nissan URGE Concept vehicle is introduced to the media at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. (Getty)
To serve those plugged-in drivers, more car makers are turning their vehicles into entertainment centers. High-end features, like navigation systems and backseat video monitors, can add as much as $2,200 to the cost of a car, according to J.D. Power and Associates.

Such features performed well in a study rating consumers' awareness and willingness to purchase, and car makers are aggressively promoting cars as entertainment centers.

"That trend is definitely growing," J.D. Power's Larry Wu said, adding that the lag time for adopting new technology in cars is much shorter than it used to be, though still a far cry from the speed of the consumer electronics business.

"Satellite radio has really taken off the last 18 months, and will probably see an even bigger jump in 2006," he said.

Luxury brands tend to have more entertainment technology because their customers expect them, Wu said. But navigation systems will be standard in most cars within a few years.

Back-seat video is also becoming more common.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s limited edition Scion xB Release Series 3.0 is aimed squarely at drivers in their late teens and early 20s, for whom electronic gadgets may be a bigger selling point than performance or safety. The xB, built in Japan and costing about $17,000, docks an iPod next to driver controls, and has small, airplane-style screens in both headrests.

GMC, the General Motors Corp. division focused on trucks and vans, is marketing its GMC Explorer as a "rolling living room," GM's William Bleau said at the auto show. A raised roof fits a 26-inch, high-definition flat screen for DVD movies, video games or live satellite TV. Aimed at parents, it sells for about $52,000.

Another GM offering, the 2006 Buick Terraza, is a minivan that touts a 40-gigabyte hard drive for storing music, movies and games. The Terraza's $600 "Phat Noise" system allows passengers to play all three simultaneously. Wireless headphones let game-playing children in the back drown out the music their parents play in the front.

Paul Grimme, who runs the transportation division of Freescale Semiconductor, envisions a future where cars are increasingly autonomous, and the interior is more adaptable, since cars last much longer than consumer devices.

"A lot of the value that car makers put in their vehicles is in electronics," said Grimme, whose company is the No. 1 supplier of semiconductors to the auto business, including to Tier-1 suppliers like Delphi Automotive Corp., Germany's Robert Bosch GmbH ROBG.UL) and Japan's Denso Corp.

Entertainment systems will soon add information content, he predicted. A car, for example, will communicate road conditions to a network to warn other drivers. Navigation systems, whose development has been led by European and Japanese car makers, will also become more common.

Navigation, as well as multichannel sound systems, like those used by home-theater enthusiasts, are already driving buying decisions, according to Stephen Witt, vice president of marketing at Alpine Electronics, a Tier-1 supplier.

"Car companies are all scrambling to get iPod connectivity in their vehicles," Witt said. He expects MP3 player connections will soon become a standard feature.
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Shigaiko

apocalypse please
Ugh. Microsoft and anything relating to XBox should just die already. They must be getting desperate as a result of the crappy sales of the 360.

The rest sounds good. ^_^
 
Skiks

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
If you don't like it don't buy it. There are some people that will buy this. o_o The 360 did well it just had a shortage. Though I think it was planned. Anyways The car actually looks cool. I'd buy it if I had the money for it. >>;
 
FlamingRuby

FlamingRuby

The magic of Pokemon
Swap a Nintendo Revolution for the 360 and I'm good.

This makes a nice boredom buster for kids if they're left in the car...
 
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WinterSnowblind

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The fanboy-ism of people on this forum is the only thing that needs to die. Seriously guys, if you're that obsessed with Nintendo, you're not only on the wrong forum, but you're breaking the rules here. This is EVERYTHING that's wrong with gamers these days. It's you guys that need to die, not Microsoft :)

Sure, there's nothing wrong with not liking a certain console, if you don't like it, then don't play it. But that isn't what's going on here. It's some kind of sick and twisted hatred for Microsoft for no apparant reason. You just don't like them? Because they compete with Nintendo? It seems more like they murdered your parents or something. It's just a GAMES company, geez. Competition is always good here, would you prefer Nintendo had the whole market to themselves, so they could release nothing but crap? No competition means they don't have to try.
 
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WinterSnowblind

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Latios said:
Wintersnowblind, take a chill pill. And if these people were Nintendo fanboys as you say, they'd be embracing the GBA/DVD in a car, which I was lead to believe 75% of the participants hated the idea.
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Sorry my bad, I must have miss understood all the people saying that Microsoft should die. I also must have miss-read the rules that say no unneccesairy random bashing of consoles. Or does that only apply if it's not Microsoft?
 
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*Ra*

The power of the sun
Midori-chan said:
Ugh. Microsoft and anything relating to XBox should just die already. They must be getting desperate as a result of the crappy sales of the 360.

The rest sounds good. ^_^
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Ahahahahahahahahahahah lol.. You think they had crappy sales, a shortage is when they don't have enough systems because their sales are going through the roof, because people are buying them.

Anyway and for the guy who said something about the revolution, i guess it could be better to have it there instead but how do u know the revolution will be any good, it's not out yet and very little details.

Ahhhahahah anyway people on the SPPF [including myself] make me laugh. lol
 
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MaskedManAbsolkid

Well-Known Member
WinterSnowblind said:
The fanboy-ism of people on this forum is the only thing that needs to die. Seriously guys, if you're that obsessed with Nintendo, you're not only on the wrong forum, but you're breaking the rules here. This is EVERYTHING that's wrong with gamers these days. It's you guys that need to die, not Microsoft :)

Sure, there's nothing wrong with not liking a certain console, if you don't like it, then don't play it. But that isn't what's going on here. It's some kind of sick and twisted hatred for Microsoft for no apparant reason. You just don't like them? Because they compete with Nintendo? It seems more like they murdered your parents or something. It's just a GAMES company, geez. Competition is always good here, would you prefer Nintendo had the whole market to themselves, so they could release nothing but crap? No competition means they don't have to try.
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Even though they made a big deal, just let them have their own opinion. Is fanboyism a crime? No, every company have fanboys.

I hate the idea though. When I saw the title, I thought 'Cool idea, but this could happen with all consoles, I wonder if they'll do this with the Revolution and PS3? It'd be hard for the Revo though', then I saw the 'using the car's handling' thing, and now it just seems silly. Not only will it be a target for thieves, using the car's handling...no.
 
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Bulk

Well-Known Member
*Ra* said:
Ahahahahahahahahahahah lol.. You think they had crappy sales, a shortage is when they don't have enough systems because their sales are going through the roof, because people are buying them.
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The shortage was most likely a marketing campain. A company doesn't supply enough consoles to meet demand and the papers go wild because the console's hard to get hold of, making it amazing. It's been done loads of times and even though Microsoft hasn't admitted it's true (why would they) it's quite likely to be the reason.

On Topic: I think it's a bit crappy really. The whole "steering wheel and pedals become game controllers when the car is still" is stupid. Why not just put in a controller? The idea could work, it just needs a bit of improvement. And I hate the way comapnies are always fighting against each other so that only some consoles get the good stuff. This should've been made for all systems, not just the 360. I don't like being forced to play a system, I'd much prefere to make the decision myself.
 
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The Battousai

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The fanboy-ism of people on this forum is the only thing that needs to die. Seriously guys, if you're that obsessed with Nintendo, you're not only on the wrong forum, but you're breaking the rules here. This is EVERYTHING that's wrong with gamers these days. It's you guys that need to die, not Microsoft

Sure, there's nothing wrong with not liking a certain console, if you don't like it, then don't play it. But that isn't what's going on here. It's some kind of sick and twisted hatred for Microsoft for no apparant reason. You just don't like them? Because they compete with Nintendo? It seems more like they murdered your parents or something. It's just a GAMES company, geez. Competition is always good here, would you prefer Nintendo had the whole market to themselves, so they could release nothing but crap? No competition means they don't have to try.
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I agree 100% there is so much bias on this forum it's not even funny. I admit I used to be a fanboy but if you can't see past one specific console you are just plain IGNORANT!!!!!!!!.

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Ugh. Microsoft and anything relating to XBox should just die already. They must be getting desperate as a result of the crappy sales of the 360.
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Wake up call, Nintendo's consoles are selling worse than Microsoft's. Stop by your local game/entertainment store and see if you can buy a 360. The original Xbox is also the top selling console in western areas on a month to month basis. Crappy sales huh? Still does this mean I don't like nintendo, no way. I have a DS and Phoenix Wright was my favorite game of 05 (a much needed lawyer sim for us future lawyers) along with Mario Kart DS following in an ever close second. I'm just stating the facts.

Also don't get me started on how much bias there is towards PS3. If you don't like a console don't buy it, no one's forcing you, heck you can go burn your money for all I care, just stop being so biased.
 
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