sUpRaHoLiC wrote:
I wasnt there till after 8:30 so when you said it I wasnt there. Since you said it at 1:30 then every person you said it to left because the guy in the line that had been there the longest got there shortly after 3.
The friend I went with bought the system since we made a deal that if he buys the 360 I have to buy a PS3. I'm just glad he didnt get one of the lemons that I've been hearing about all over the internet.

I didn't pay too much attention to who was there when I was there for the first time and I didn't know anyone there then so I couldn't tell you if the same people were there. The second time around though I did know the one person I talked to.

weshole wrote:
And what time were you there? I was there twice that day once on my lunch break (1:30 When I said that) and 7:30-8:00 ish when I walked up to a big indian kid I know sitting at the end of the seats and spoke briefely with him. There were far fewer people there the second time around than the first as well. And I will stand by what I said too.
I wasnt there till after 8:30 so when you said it I wasnt there. Since you said it at 1:30 then every person you said it to left because the guy in the line that had been there the longest got there shortly after 3.
The friend I went with bought the system since we made a deal that if he buys the 360 I have to buy a PS3. I'm just glad he didnt get one of the lemons that I've been hearing about all over the internet.

sUpRaHoLiC wrote:
Ya know thats funny, I was there for 4 hours and actually got one of the x360's and not a single person ever said anything like you say you did.

And what time were you there? I was there twice that day once on my lunch break (1:30 When I said that) and 7:30-8:00 ish when I walked up to a big indian kid I know sitting at the end of the seats and spoke briefely with him. There were far fewer people there the second time around than the first as well. And I will stand by what I said too.

you were in fergus falls?
Yeah, me and a friend ate at Burger Time as fast as we could and then went straight to walmart to wait in line till midnight. Were you there too?

burnteclipse wrote:
Jim lookes like poser mobile....fees shorty....fees....haha..mite get me banned but i dont care.....

Haha, it wasnt funny the first time, read the other threads you whored to figure out that you'll be banned next time...

interesting find

meh, in the end we're all geeks.

STiSchucky wrote:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=981694

nice job. this is the first problem for the 360

"I have to agree. I'm sure you all remember the issues with PS2 launch. Many launch day consoles have had issues in the past."

Seems like most people's are working fine though...

Blu-Ray is looking more and more to be a standard that won't happen...

HP, Dell, Sony, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Walt Disney Co. and Twentieth Century Fox support Blu-ray.

Microsoft, Intel, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios have endorsed HD-DVD.

Lets see... Dell, HP and Sony VS Microsoft and Intel... Oh wait what do Dell and HP depend upon? yeah intel and microsoft, if they want to swing thier weight around they will get thier way on the standard.

More Info:

UPDATE Hp Considers dropping Blu-Ray

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/79912/hp-gets-cold-feet-over-bluray.html

"We sat down with Microsoft to compare notes on the PC implementation of the various application layers," says Peterson. "Based on that discussion and technical reviews, we decided iHD is a must, if you will, for the PC implementation of next-generation optical discs."

The advantages to iHD, an XML-based format developed by Microsoft, Disney, and the DVD Forum, will more clearly benefit content producers more than consumers. For content producers, iHD will be easier to use for authoring and testing discs. For consumers, iHD will be integrated into Microsoft's Windows Vista OS, which will make playing an iHD-based disc easier than playing a disc using a different platform that would require installing third-party software.

-- So native support for HD-DVD in next version of windows...

sony>m$

sUpRaHoLiC wrote:
Ya know thats funny, I was there for 4 hours and actually got one of the x360's and not a single person ever said anything like you say you did.

you were in fergus falls?

nice job. this is the first problem for the 360

Being the WESHOLE that i am, I walked right up to them and called them loosers and told them to get a fuckin life.
Ya know thats funny, I was there for 4 hours and actually got one of the x360's and not a single person ever said anything like you say you did.

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

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

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."

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...