I'm just messing around. I'm sure it IS authentic. It's obviously Microsoft running the ourcolony.net website. It is definitely a picture of Xbox 2 or an Xbox 2 peripheral.
What do you do for the videogame industry caffinefiend? Whatever it is you seem to take a lot of pride in it. I would imagine that there are focus groups, hardware developers, game developers, upper-level people at game publishing firms and journalists from major game publications that will all get handson time with Xbox 2 before me. What do you do for a living?