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  • ichibankillaI Offline
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    It seems as though there isn't going to be enough 360's to meet the demand on launch day or after for that fact. Even those that preorder may be S.O.L.
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      nm i guess that line outside of best buy is to buy the 360s that theyre gettin, which is supposed to be about 20.

      ps3>x box360 kthxbye

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        It's possible Microsoft ensured this would happen so they can say they sold out on launch day. It's a cheap thing to do, but it works.

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          Like 20 people were in my local walmart today sitting on lawn chairs in front of the elec dept waiting till midnight to ensure theyll get one. Being the WESHOLE that i am, I walked right up to them and called them loosers and told them to get a fuckin life.

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            pin wrote:
            It's possible Microsoft ensured this would happen so they can say they sold out on launch day. It's a cheap thing to do, but it works.

            I HIGHLY doubt microsoft would do this just to raise hype. There is a high demand for the Xbox 360's, and unlike most releases they are releasing the Xbox 360 Worldwide within a week, there is no staggered launch.


            Everybody makes MS to out to be the bad guy, but can you honestly imagine a world without them?

            Anyways, who cares its just an Xbox, oh my god its going to be a few weeks before you gamers can get it 😞 😞

            Umm...

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              http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5168/
              http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051026-5483.html

              I'm not a fan of Microsoft or their products, and so far these stories are just part of a consipracy theory. I don't plan to buy an X-Box 360 and I don't own any consoles. I do have too much free time at the moment, though.

              Barry
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                STiSchucky wrote:
                nm i guess that line outside of best buy is to buy the 360s that theyre gettin, which is supposed to be about 20.

                ps3>x box360 kthxbye

                xbox is more superior to the PS3. Sony will always have the inferior product......

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                  99slowGSX wrote:
                  xbox is more superior to the PS3. Sony will always have the inferior product......

                  AMEN...its just a matter of which company uses the most out of it's particular counsol's abilitys...i wanna see a game that uses all 3x3.2 ghz. of processor power...a lot of games use hardly any of the consol's abilty as im sure many ppl know.

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                    pin wrote:
                    http://www.neoseeker.com/news/story/5168/
                    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051026-5483.html

                    I'm not a fan of Microsoft or their products, and so far these stories are just part of a consipracy theory. I don't plan to buy an X-Box 360 and I don't own any consoles. I do have too much free time at the moment, though.

                    So what if MS is limiting their stock, this is just a smart way of doing business..

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                      99slowGSX wrote:
                      xbox is more superior to the PS3. Sony will always have the inferior product......

                      How do you figure that xbox is more superior?? The only game that xbox has that PS2 doesn't and is even worth wanting is the Halo series.. Any other game i would rather play on the ps2, for one you aren't carrying around a brick to play a game, your controller on an Xbox is the size of my slim ps2.... They have more memory on the older ones yea but i am guessing the PS3 will be better then the xbox360... The graphics IMO are the same for both counsel... I dont have to pay to play online like Xbox Live does.. Just wanna know waht you think the advantages to xbox is to the ps2

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                        i like the xbox myself.....some people like average size controllers...haveing a pack of gum in your hand can be hard to manage....just thought i would throw that out there

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                          YellowEvo wrote:
                          How do you figure that xbox is more superior?? The only game that xbox has that PS2 doesn't and is even worth wanting is the Halo series.. Any other game i would rather play on the ps2, for one you aren't carrying around a brick to play a game, your controller on an Xbox is the size of my slim ps2.... They have more memory on the older ones yea but i am guessing the PS3 will be better then the xbox360... The graphics IMO are the same for both counsel... I dont have to pay to play online like Xbox Live does.. Just wanna know waht you think the advantages to xbox is to the ps2

                          any sane person would know that the xbox is better than ps2. I have tiger woods for both consoles and it is a night and day difference in graphics and speed. The 360 is going to blow the ps3 out of the water. You will agree someday when you see them side by side.

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                            as I've stated in other threads, it will depend on what kind of software is available for each. The problem with the Xbox is that while t was built infinitely better than the PS2 in terms of power/performance/graphics/etc.. it lacked the software manufacturers being on board. This is partly due to the fact that the PS2 had been out for a good while before xbox shipped and therefore all the manufacturers were producing games for the PS2 and then porting them (usually poorly) to the xbox. This time it seems it is the other way around, Xbox first, then PS3 so we'll see what happens here. FWIW, I'll take an Xbox controller (the newer smaller ones that come with the unit now) over a PS2 controller any day.

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                              I find it hard to believe that MS is limiting its product on purpose - they're the king of high volume, lower prices, off the shelf products. I just think they wanted the product out this week, and manufactured all they could to make it happen.

                              It'll be interesting to see if in the next 3 weeks each store suddenly gets a huge allotment and this pent up demand is solved in time for Xmas....

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                                YellowEvo wrote:
                                How do you figure that xbox is more superior?? The only game that xbox has that PS2 doesn't and is even worth wanting is the Halo series.. Any other game i would rather play on the ps2, for one you aren't carrying around a brick to play a game, your controller on an Xbox is the size of my slim ps2.... They have more memory on the older ones yea but i am guessing the PS3 will be better then the xbox360... The graphics IMO are the same for both counsel... I dont have to pay to play online like Xbox Live does.. Just wanna know waht you think the advantages to xbox is to the ps2

                                The Xbox has superior hardware in every shape and form. Most people dont' carry thier game counsels around, they leave them plugged in to the TV. Xbox (1) had a harddrive built in, a network card built in, etc... etc...

                                The graphics are NOT the same by any means...

                                Anyway how many PS2's can play ROMs, be turned in to a media center, etc etc... Not to mention the Multi-Player abilites on XBOX were LEAPS AND BOUNDS ahead of PS2.


                                We'll see what happens with the PS3 vs XBOX 360... As people have stated its the games that make or break a system, but more and more it looks as if MS has gotten alot of the major players on board with it this time around...

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                                  Microsoft used Boeing 747 freight planes to rush the machines to the United States from China. The Xbox will go on sale in Europe on December 2 and in Japan on December 10.

                                  More than 200 customers waited in the rain outside the Best Buy store on Fifth Avenue in New York for a chance to buy one of the first Xboxes.

                                  "Hardcore customers want the games right now," said Carlos Serrano, a store manager.

                                  The Xbox is available in two versions: a basic model for US$299 and a US$399 version that has a hard drive and a wireless controller. The devices connect to digital cameras, portable music players and Windows PCs.

                                  "We're just making these things as fast as we can," Gates said. "We think demand will continue to exceed supply for quite a while."

                                  The Xbox 360 contains 1,700 separate parts and its release around the world in the space of three weeks leaves little room for error.

                                  "For the last six months, we've been on the edge of our seats," Gates said. "I hope I don't get an e-mail saying `Gosh, processor yields are too low, or this plastic factory burned down in Malaysia, so we'll have boxes but no controllers'."

                                  Manufacturers Flextronics International, Wistron and Celestica are building the machines.

                                  "With software at least, the people who determine your fate all come to work here at Microsoft," Gates said.

                                  Microsoft shares have fallen 16 percent over the past five years as sales of personal computers slowed.

                                  Gates is betting the Xbox, Microsoft's only unprofitable unit last year, will help bolster other sales by Microsoft to consumers. The Xbox 360 will also be profitable over the life of the machine, unlike its predecessor, he said.

                                  The Xbox is "absolutely one of their key growth strategies," said Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson in Portland, Oregon. "It's a Trojan horse to get a Microsoft product into the living room."

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                                    Xbox 360's going for 5000 and up on Ebay:

                                    http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/22/technology/personaltech/xbox_ebay/

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                                      people are just gonna buy em to sell em on ebay now...

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                                        xbox was far supiorer over ps2 in every way it's just the games weren't cause they were almost all made to work on the ps2 the xbox and the slowest of them all the game cube so the xbox never really had the full power used... the new xbox360 is still top dog for the next year until the ps3 comes out ... sony is waiting so that this time they have the more powerful box (new tech = more power) but like chuck said the roll of the software will be made to work on both so why give a rates ass about which is more powerfull....

                                        they are making a big fuss about the xbox being progressive scan widescreen ect but that's just idoits falling for that my plan xbox has been from day one... yes ebay today yet was averaging between 1200 to 1400 per xbox 360 but that is idiotic yet again even if you can't wait for the year and a half to 2 year mark for the price to be cut in half you sure arn't going to die waiting until after xmas if your not lucky on timing to get one before hand for $399

                                        besides halo their is also PG, PG2 that are xbox only which is the best game if you like hanging out the rear end of the car for kudo's points also was the first to do this and not sure if any other car game does this yet and PG3 is out for the 360 (PG = Project Gotham)

                                        and even with PS3 waiting for a year the hardware is going to be so close to each other your not going to notice a difference it's going to come down to which MAJOR company do you want to loose money on hardware sony or microsoft....

                                        UNLESS you like online play cause the sony has NOTHING on xbox when comes to live play... microsoft has the experience with user interface to make everything the same for connecting with each game where i've seen and been told by play station people online play sucks because every game connects differently

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                                          how bout that poor kid from minot, that 360 is probably on ebay

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