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?