By evergimp on 10/19/2007 7:35 AM
North American Sales figures are in. Not really too surprising. HW Sales
Xbox 360 527.8K
Wii 501K
Nintendo DS 495.8K
PlayStation Portable 284.5K
PlayStation 2 215K
PlayStation 3 119.4K
Game Boy Advance 75K
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By evergimp on 10/16/2007 6:02 AM
I had written previously about an ex-coworker who's 360 had given up the ghost. He messaged me yesterday to let me know that he got 2 months of free xbox live out of the deal. ( Hey, I've had 2 red light repairs and they didn't give me nothing except the runaround. ) The one they sent back also had an HDMI port, so he was pretty excited. However, when he hooked it up he attempted to reconnect his wireless controllers and found that they wouldn't recognize them. After being on the phone with Microsoft support and running through some diagnostics they had him send his "repaired" 360 back. So keep up the good work Microsoft service and support. Someday, you might actually get him back to playing games again.
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By evergimp on 10/11/2007 6:04 PM
kotaku.com/gaming/he-hate-them/gabe-newell-totally-hates-the-ps3-309613.php The creater of arguably the greatest FPS shooter of all time has consistently been critical of the PS3 design.
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By evergimp on 10/11/2007 6:01 PM
EA has purchased the holding company that owns Bioware and Pandemic xbox360.ign.com/articles/826/826662p1.html Apparently this industry can't support or tolerate independent developers.
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By evergimp on 10/5/2007 5:59 PM
Apparently the Rumors were true, Microsoft and Bungie have split. http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=news&cid=12835
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By evergimp on 6/27/2007 6:32 PM
If you’d like the Red Lights of Death on your forza 2 cars, just gift me a car and I’ll put the image on your car and send it back. GT is Evergimp 
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By evergimp on 6/27/2007 6:31 PM
http://www.micromartltd.co.uk/ Micromart Ltd has stopped doing repairs on the xbox 360 for the 3 red lights. They refer to the problem as endemic and say the volume of the problem has made the repair non-viable. Sometimes too much business is a bad thing. |
By evergimp on 4/15/2007 6:30 PM
IGN Reviews their experience of sending the 360 back for repairs. IGN Coffin Review |
By evergimp on 4/15/2007 6:22 PM
Kotaku has a post concerning the Guitar Hero II update bricking 360s. This doesn’t seem to be that uncommon after an update. Maybe updates are the last straw for 360s running on the edge. Maybe it’s a coincidence. I still think it’s just perception. “Everything was running great till I ran that last update”.
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By evergimp on 4/14/2007 6:21 PM
I was surprised to receive an email from Microsoft yesterday that they had received my 360 at the repair center. I was expected it to take until early next week for them to get it. I was even more surprised that a few hours later I got another e-mail that my 360 was being sent back to me. I don’t know if they fixed my current one, or if they fixed my old one. Either way I hope it doesn’t just immediately get 3 red lights once I plug it back in. It would be nice to get some sort of feedback about what the technicians observed and did to fix it.
I have little faith in this being a long time fix. Do I sell it and the warranty on ebay? The only bad thing is I bought the MS wheel too. That’ll be a little harder to sell and ship. It was also a substantial investment.
What are my other choices though.
The Wii? I already owned a GameCube. Do I really feel the need to buy another one? Except with a $150 controller? I will definitely buy a Wii… once I can actually find one. But I seriously don’t see it being a long term gaming platform. Can you really see it holding up for the next 4 or 5 years? Online play is also important to me.. and they aren’t exactly helping me buy the Wii on that front. If someone can.. please point Nintendo to these comments. It will be difficult, because first you’ll have to explain what the internet is and why people would like it. Also, if you are in that tight with them. Please explain what Hi-Def Television is, and why people would want it.
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