A good designer that just wanted to make a commercial would have just avoided it altogether. But i guess that wasnt the only point. Hey perhaps the guy that made it disliked m$ and this was his revenge.
Lets torture him and find out



REDMOND, Wash., and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox® products and services to be announced at a later date.
Originally posted by gps777
The only conection with the swastika and xbox i can think of is
REDMOND, Wash., and EAST FISHKILL, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has entered into a semiconductor technology agreement with IBM Corp. Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox® products and services to be announced at a later date.
www.microsoft.com...
connected to......
www.ibmandtheholocaust.com...
or does that go without saying?
anyway i find it disturbing that they would or could unintentionally make another mistake assosciating themselves with the like of Nazis.

Originally posted by Agent47
So the 4th reich is going to be built on toys? Honestly how many kids are going to see a bunch of spinning controllers and automatically say "hey that looks like a swastika" or how many kids are going to want to stare at a screen while a broken Xbox displays a bunch of feedback which may or may not display swastikas.
Honestly its probably someones idea of a joke inside of microsoft. I'm going to have to say that the swastikas probably do exist but all the same its more than likely the result of bored programers.