BiGBrOwNPimpsta

you know what though. this will do little to their sales. they rushed it to the market and people have been influenced on MTV. and EA is doing a lot to back them now. even though i hate xbox, im pretty sure it will do better in the long run

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g35x

mmm....not reading the whole thread but click the linky in my sig [color=silver]smashmyxbox.com[/color] download the video and the guy from the store says that the 1st time they hooked up their 360 it crashed and it scratched the madden 06 dvd to the point it was unplayable.......

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daedal

Sorta happy I waited to get one now.

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GutterPunk

I wonder how many people overseas are dying from playing too much... yeah not the dehydration/starvation that d2 caused but the cause of burning down your house from week straight gaming

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SFOSOK

Yep, they are also doing a lot of changes to it in the future.

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g35x

yep,im waiting till halo 3 to get my 360 (possibly,or new pc upgrades ...halo 3 for pc is my dream lol) maybe by then they'll have the bugs worked out & lowered the price??? lol

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Tipstaff

Well then you will be waiting a while for Halo 3. Next Halo game to be released will be Halo 2.5, which, although it was supposed to be a 360 launch title (yet wasn't), is still "supposed" to be coming out according to the MS rep.

Most of the issues are easliy fixable. MS needs to rethink it's power brick, packaging, the hard drive connector needs to be tweaked, and heatsink issues need to be examined. If MS took a close look at the latter 2 issues I bet they find that they are actually shipping problems. Whenever you ship electronic components there is always the possibility that something will get dislodged, and given the 360s poor packaging it's not surprising. There is no "protection", if you will, between the outter box, and the 360 itself on 3 sides (looking from the front of the unit standing up: top, right side, bottom) except a millimetre of cardboard box! There is 2 pieces of foam padding between the bottom of the 360, and the controllers/whatnot below the system, plus 2 double folded pieces of cardboard between the back/front, and the outter box. That's it. I made mention to a number of people that where having issues with the 360 recognizing the hard drive that they should try to remove the HDD, and then reseat it. Sure enough, it solved the problem in a number of cases. Why? Funny enough, the TOP of the unit is where the hard drive resides. In the cases where the drive still didn't work.. well, it turns out they were damaged (either the drive itself, or the connector got mashed/damaged). Oh, I wonder how that happened??? At the very least the hard drive should not be attached to the 360 during shipping, and it definatly should not be placed in harms way. Now, the 360 Core bundle is "sorta" ok since there is no HDD unit there, but it's not ok for the Premium bundle. More padding, or having the HDD unit elsewhere in the box (better protected) is the way to go.

As for the PSU brick, better ventilation, or even a low powered exhaust fan on the side of the brick should do the trick. I haven't opened one up yet, but I bet they skimped on the aluminum heatsinks. There really isn't much else you can do with it (short of making it stand vertically).

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SSXeon

nice find, the video is awsome! I wont smash mine tho.

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