“Xbox Horizon” Has Trolled Us All

If you’ve been on twitter at all during the Super Bowl, then surely you’ve seen the hashtag “#XboxHorizon” being used. It seems to be a tweet from Polygon’s Justin McElroy who started it all.

Holy shit, Xbox Horizon, huh? Guess if they wanted to beat Sony to the punch, this is the time/place to do it.

— Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy) February 4, 2013

After this, hell broke loose.

Xbox Horizon #YesPlease

— Justin Young (@TheJustin) February 4, 2013

if what I’m reading from Americas Superbowl adverts is true Xbox Horizon is a shit name Microsoft! Well played Justin, well played.

— Howard (@HowardDoesArt) February 4, 2013

Need sleep but the announcement of a new Xbox is persuading me to stay up and hunt for details #ScrewUni #XboxHorizon

— Michael Hardman (@MichaelHardman2) February 4, 2013

Everyone and their brother thought it was real.
Hell, I even got sucked in.

What is #XboxHorizon?

— (austin) (@austing909) February 4, 2013

Although if the rumors were real, it’d be quite an amazing device.

New Xbox has 1TB drive. Pre purchase comes with a year’s supply of Mountain Dew and Doritos. #xboxhorizon

— Tara (@Stickywiggit) February 4, 2013

Free food, HD-DVD’s back from the dead.

@austing909 Did you not see it!? HD-DVD is back! #XboxHorizon

— Chris Lock (@snickelsox) February 4, 2013

Three analog sticks!?

THREE analog sticks? What’s your deal, #XboxHorizon?

— Joseph Ben Unkle III (@jbu3) February 4, 2013

and even L.A. Noire quality eye tracking?

Although the new eye-tracking feature in the revamped Kinext sensor is pretty amazing. #XboxHorizon

— Cal Skuthorpe (@buzz_clik) February 4, 2013

It looks like McElroy even got his hands on the during-game announcement plans;

Lights come up, an #XboxHorizon sits at midfield. J Allard descends from roof with “11/12/13″ tattooed on his arm. The game has ended.

— Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy) February 4, 2013

Here’s absolutely everything we know about the “Xbox Horizon”

Release Date:

•  The Xbox Horizon releases 11-12-13, that’s November 11th, 2013.
• It will retail for $299.99

Features

• The Xbox Horizon features many groundbreaking new features, including:
• - A 1TB Wireless Harddrive
• - The return of both HD-DVD’s and Cartridges
• -  The removal of backwards compatability
• - “SuperKinect” with advanced eye tracking similar to L.A. Noire’s mocapping.

Glad they went back to cartridges to be honest, the future is retro. #XboxHorizon

— Steve yo (@RiotBananas) February 4, 2013

 

The Xbox Horizon also already has a launch lineup of games including…

• Diablo 3

The #XboxHorizon ad was way over the top, but I’m pretty sure I saw a Diablo 3 screengrab in the closing montage. — The Daily Blink (@dailyblink) February 4, 201

A remake of the popular game Bubsy

Pretty weird that they announced a Bubsy remake as an #XboxHorizon launch title… — Matt Kump? (@kump) February 4, 2013

A survival horror game about a jacked up muscle-man dubbed “Fleshlight” – is this a slenderman rip off?

The new Xbox comes bundled with the new survival horror game “Fleshlight.” Looks good! #xboxhorizon

— Tara (@Stickywiggit) February 4, 2013

But alas, it turns out to be one giant hoax, sprung from the mind of Justin McElroy.