RSS300,000 Xbox 360s for Euro Launch
By Ed Oswald | Published November 28, 2005, 10:09 AM
European gamers should expect similar scenes in retail stores across the continent on Friday as seen in the United States the week before. That's because Microsoft plans to only have about 300,000 units of its new Xbox 360 console available at launch, according to a company executive. Chris Lewis, Xbox's European head, told a German weekly on Sunday that there was a good chance the console would sell out across Europe as well.
The console sold out in most places across the U.S. within hours, and eager gamers are paying up to several times the retail price of the system on Internet auction sites. Microsoft is the first to release its next-generation gaming consoles; Sony is expected to launch the PS3 in spring 2006, with the Nintendo Revolution following soon after.
Its hard to remember when PS2 was released but there was a whole handfull of problems. I never expeirenced any of them, and my PS2 had a good life until Afgahnastan's un-friendly sandbox climate tore it apart. Regardless when it came out, there was complaints of the fans being way too loud, which they where quite loud, cd trays not opening, all sorts of stuff. When you put out so many, there is always going to be DOA. Now if it is random, or an actuall flaw is what matters.
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|I bought my PS2 during the first release and I've had to send it to SONY twice now due to "Disc Read Error", and it's starting to struggle again. The thing is, they know it's a problem. Not once, but both times, my console was out of warranty yet the repaired it free of charge because it was a fault with the early consoles. That is why I didn't rush out to pre-order a 360, and I won't be in line for a PS3 at launch either. I'm not too impatient to wait for a second or third launch, especially when it may save me a load of hassle later.
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|This is "Microsoft" Since when has M$ release ANYTHING that didn't have ANY Problems? I think the Original XBOX was probably the only thing that M$ has release without a billion problems. But then again, the original XBOX was release with concurrent technologies. Whereas the 360 is all new technology!
Makes you wonder...Will the PS3 Be as glitchy using a tottaly new "Cell" processor? a Tottally new Graphics Processor by nVidia
a new Disc format known as Blu-Ray...
hmm...We'll just have to wait and see :)
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|Great, can we get some over here too? No? :(
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|thats what happens when you buy a colsole (or anything) when it first comes out. lots of defects
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|They may find enough saps to buy 300,000.
Personally, I don't buy incomplete, cut-down consoles, designed soley to cash-in on the Christmas rush.
People must be crazy, have you seen the lacklustre launch titles?
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|I wouldn't say Microsoft "plans" to only have 300,000 units; more like they "expect" to. I'm sure if they could deliver any number that they wanted to plan, they'd deliver a whole lot more. Even if you're one of the people who believe that Microsoft is intentionally holding back just to ensure sellouts, they could just as easily sellout 600,000 during the holidays as 300,000. It's ridiculous to think they wouldn't get as many units into people's homes as possible before PS3 enters the market.
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|Agreed
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|i heard that some Xboxes here in the US where coming out with problems on the video card, and the processor.. i hope this is false
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|Here's your answer...
http://news.google.com/n...ms&btnG=Search+News
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|Are any of you surprised? Try building any sort of electronics device, computer, handheld game, cell phone, whatever--sell millions in one day and see if all of them work perfectly fine. Sony will have the same sort of deal, so will Sega (if they ever make another one) and Nintendo. Now anywhere over 1,000 DOA units and MS needs to take a really close look into what's causing the issue. I doubt this is necessarily a 'design flaw', however.
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|Well...cpu and video card have not been manufactured in any other device/computer yet, so that would make a little bit of sense...
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|::agreed::
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