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Skriven 2005-11-25 12:24:20 av Tony Williams (1:379/45)
     Kommentar till en text av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Xbox 360 renamed Crash Box?
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From: Tony Williams <tonyw@blarg.net>

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> I was out on Tuesday morning in a futile attempt to purchase a 360 but there
> were far to many 'blanket people' who waited hours in line at the various
> stores. Also most of the stores that had some inventory for the blanket
> people only had the green box basic units left.
>
> I'll just wait till after the holidays now as I want the harddrive unit with
> the hi-def cables plus MS hopefully will fix any problems by then

That's my plan too. The game I'm really looking forward to is Oblivion and
that's been delayed so I'm not in a huge rush.

> I wasn't aware of any ventilation noise problems regarding the 360 now  I'll
> definitely have to check that out before purchase   - thanks

I'm going from comments on the various Xbox forums and noise does seem to be an
issue. One guy tried putting the unit in a cabinet to dampen the noise, but
then it overheated and crashed. I'm hoping that it's just the usual teething
problems with the first production run.

--
Tony

>
>
> "Tony Williams" <tonyw@blarg.net> wrote in message
> news:438620b0$1@w3.nls.net...
>
>>I've been following this because I quite like the idea of getting a 360.
>>From what I can see the crashes all seem to be hardware related, probably
>>to do with overheating. I say that because the crashes that have been
>>reported happen in random places and some people have said that they
>>stopped after moving the Xbox to a better ventilated space.
>>
>>I find that quite believable in a new piece of kit and I expect they'll
>>have it fixed soon. On the downside, the 360's fan already makes it
>>uncomfortably loud for the living room according to some reportrs.
>>
>>Just another reason to avoid 1.0 releases.
>>
>>--
>>Tony
>>
>>Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>
>>>Yet another MS product rushed to the shelves?
>>>
>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/23/AR2005112302
142.html
>>>
>>>Gamers Seeing Glitches in New Xbox
>>>Console Crashes, Freezes Have Been Reported
>>>
>>>Microsoft's Xbox 360, the much-anticipated video game system that made
>>>its debut earlier this week, is apparently experiencing some technical
>>>glitches -- screens freezing only minutes into a game, for example -- and
>>>that has left some users pretty upset.
>>>
>>>At gamer-oriented Web sites, Xbox 360 owners have reported system crashes
>>>in games such as the space-marines-vs.-aliens title Quake 4.
>>>
>>>One owner complained that his new console tries to read the shooter game
>>>Perfect Dark Zero as a DVD movie. Another posted a video file of the game
>>>Project Gotham Racing 3 freezing up before the player had even finished
>>>the first lap of the driving game.
>>>
>>>Brian Crecente, who runs the game-fan site Kotaku.com, said his Xbox 360
>>>locked up three times, causing him to lose a couple of hours' worth of
>>>progress in a Western-themed action game called Gun.
>>>
>>>At Web sites devoted to the new Xbox, some owners were already expressing
>>>regret that they had spent up to $400 for the console -- not including
>>>games.
>>>
>>>"Up until today I was pretty much an Xbox fanboy," wrote one gamer whose
>>>online moniker is Kulanose. "But after spending 6 and a half hours
>>>outside uncontrollably [shivering] for something that doesn't work right
>>>. . . they just lost me and a bunch of people I know."
>>>
>>>Over at techno-geek Web site Slashdot, some readers were already trying
>>>to diagnose the system's problems from images that had been posted on the
>>>Web and come up with their own solutions.
>>>
>>>"Let's rename it to crash-box," one visitor wrote.
>>>
>>>Microsoft has said it hopes to sell 3 million units of the new game
>>>consoles in its first 90 days.
>>>
>
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