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10 Xbox 360 Dev Kits Stolen in Germany

Posted by Zonk on from the early-adopters dept.

BlueStar writes "Ten Xbox 360 Development Kits have been stolen from a storehouse in Düren, Germany. They were being transported from HongKong for game developers in Europe together with other Microsoft products and wrapped in neutral packaging. 3 of the 10 XeDKs have been found after searches in Germany and Austria ... probably in the homes of the people that leaked out those (now deleted) Xbox 360 motherboard pictures not so long ago."

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  1. Re:Here come the mod chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I personally don't know if having a development kit 6 weeks before you can get an actual system will actually make a difference. Personally, I have never worked with or used a console development kit but I suspect that most of the hardware used in copy protection would probably be missing; after all why would you need copy protection in a development platform?

    The only real benefits I could see of examining a development platform would be that you could examine how the system works in the absence of copy protection hardware (thus you could potentially bypass it) or you could examine documentation on the hardware looking for a weakness (although why would anyone include any documentation on the copy protection?).