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XBox Goes Down in Public

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everyone-point-and-laugh dept.

rosewood sent in a story about the X-Box Crashing in Public. Of course, it obviously is beta hardware so such things are to be expected, but that doesn't mean that you can't point your fingers and generate a nelson style HAHA at a multi billion dollar corporation's expense. They'll get the last laugh in 24 months when no software vendor dares release a game for any other system.

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  1. Happens to all consoles. by vitaflo · · Score: 5

    This article is pretty much a Troll as far as I'm concerned. I was at E3 last year for the unveiling of the PS2 and there were plenty of crashed demo stations, the same goes for the Dreamcast games that were showing of the new online play back then.

    Now, they didn't put up a blue screen or anything, they just locked up hard on screen, but it's E3, most of this stuff isn't even beta yet. Ya can't blame M$ for someone else's mistake (as much as I'd like to ;).

  2. Not a real Xbox anyway by ginsu · · Score: 5
    I played several games on the Xbox at E3. However, the only actual "box" to be seen was one sealed up in a big plexiglass case, you couldn't actually see the consoles you were playing on. That's because (according to one of the developers there) they were playing on not much more than modified PC's! (Gighz Athalons, etc.)

    I was initially really surprised to see "playable Xboxes" on the show floor because I'd just read in Wired that Nvidia was nowhere near ready to start fabbing the chips, and wouldn't be ready until mid or late summer. So these machines (whatever they have inside) don't have either the right processor or the right graphics card -- so however they look (and crash :) has really nothing to do with what the production Xbox will be.

  3. Re:Uh... ok, that was almost news by BlueUnderwear · · Score: 5
    > Wanna watch my Linux box crash if I tell the kernel it has 256MB of memory and only have 128MB (and then try and run Mozilla :-P)

    But why would you do that? To make Linux look bad?

    Well in this particular situation, Microsoft was demoing their product, and tried to show it in the best light, and thus really had no interest whatsoever to sabotage their own product. And you can be pretty damn sure that they have enough money to put a decent enough amount of memory in the box too.

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  4. computers vs. game consoles by martinflack · · Score: 5

    I think Microsoft is going to have to swallow hard and accept the fact that while Joe Sixpack may find his computer complex and doesn't find it odd that it crashes every once in a while, he is going to be horribly insulted when his game console crashes. ("What the..? Piece of shit..")

    This is one arena where MS is not the "OS" leader. Nintendo, Sega, Sony, even Atari have established "operating systems" that work damn well on their games boxes and don't blue screen every couple of hours. The fact that XBox crashed in such a high-profile tradeshow displays pathetic programming. When Joe Sixpack learns that this is what he can expect from XBox, he will quite simply go with one of the established gaming vendors that has a box that can actually run.

  5. Taco the defeatist? by not_cub · · Score: 5
    They'll get the last laugh in 24 months when no software vendor dares release a game for any other system.

    That's right... We should also throw up our hands and stop using linux, because MS is obviously going to beat us here too. There definitely aren't other consoles to provide competition...

    Seriously, was there a glitch in the slashdot or something because I thought we didn't see microsoft as invulnerable over here.

    not_cub

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  6. Re:The Windows 2000 Kernel by Patrick+McRotch · · Score: 5
    You anti-MS bigots are so pathetic.

    A more accurate story about the crash is here The link is on Microsoft's front page, and the machine that crashed was the first ever working prototype. The machine was running pre-alpha code. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a few crashes during the development phase of a system, do you? I'm sure your code always compiles perfectly the first time you run it, with no bugs whatsoever. I'm sure Linus never had a kernel panic either when Linux was in the prototype phase of development.

    If you're going to bash Microsoft, at least come up with some legitimate gripes, otherwise, you come off sounding like a bunch of raving lunatics.