Xbox 360 gets a fireplace

XNA user SniperED007 has created a fireplace for Xbox 360 costing 400 Microsoft Points.

It features “realistic smoldering embers and flickering flames,” and apparently creates “the perfect backdrop for a relaxing evening.” Quite.

You can download a demo if you want to try before you buy. Shacknews even has a video of it in action.

This is the future, right here.

By Mike Bowden

16 comments

morriss
23/12/08, 9:26 am

Next Gen has finally arrived.

Blerk
23/12/08, 9:31 am

Rather over-priced, that.

Whizzo
23/12/08, 9:31 am

The NXE snow storm is a) free and b) a bazillion times better than this.

G1GAHURTZ
23/12/08, 9:32 am

I think I’d be quite alarmed to see my TV apparently on fire.

morriss
23/12/08, 9:35 am

I remember when settop boxes first arrived and they had a fireplace channel. I don’t know why anyone expects any money for something like this but there you go.

Blerk
23/12/08, 9:43 am

Don’t 360s catch fire on their own anyway? For free?

G1GAHURTZ
23/12/08, 9:44 am

Depends how long you leave the towel on for.

Vahn16
23/12/08, 10:01 am

Don’t you get it? The Xbox 360 was built for this thing. The heat emanating from the console is meant to simulate the warmth of a fire. This is, for all intents and purposes, the Xbox 360′s killer app.

Bagpuss-RoXx
23/12/08, 12:12 pm

That reminds me of those HD screens sold in Japan as virtual Aquariums when Plasma TV’s first appeared about 10 yrs ago.

42′ virtual aquarium, yours for a snip under £12,000.

#10

airdom
23/12/08, 3:48 pm

5$ for this? hah! nothankyou

happy holidays to everyone by the way

#11

599USD
23/12/08, 6:54 pm

I feel sorry for anyone that bought this.

#12

Retroid
23/12/08, 9:22 pm

Why? They were stupid enough to buy it even though there’s a demo.

#13

Whizzo
23/12/08, 10:46 pm

I’d love to see the sales figures for this, it’d have to be the lowest demo to full “game” conversion in Xbox Marketplace history.

#14

Psychotext
23/12/08, 11:01 pm

I’d wager that “In the Pit” has a lower conversion ratio.

#15

theevilaires
24/12/08, 1:29 am

599USD said: I feel sorry for anyone that bought this.

see giganuts someone does have sympathy for you

#16

theevilaires
24/12/08, 1:32 am

this beats ps3′s outer space music visualizer by miles man. the graphics are so real looking they’re better than killzone2. MS has won 2009 before it even started damn!