It’s official. Accompanying the Xbox 360’s summer update will be a QWERTY attachment that will make inputing text in Windows Live Messenger a lot faster. No price or even name for the accessory has been announced but we do know it interfaces with the controller via the headphone jack.

In the between time, Xbox Live users will see Windows Live Messenger integrated into their dashboard this spring with an onscreen keyboard.

So now Microsoft decides to go back to a gigantic controller design that so miserably failed the first Xbox . . . Yay?

More details over at Destructoid.

Of course the obvious way to find out is to open your fucking ears and actually listen, but this way is more fun. The above image shows the DVD drives from past version starting from left to right. If you were fortunate enough to get a 360 this past holiday (after November) season, you should be sporting the supposed quieter BenQ model, you lucky bastard.

Fun Fax!
It is a known fact that 300% of noise emitted from the Xbox 360 actually comes from the DVD drive itself and that 38% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[via GWN, Xbox-Scene]