MS On 360 Wireless Issues

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday October 26, 2005 @08:15AM from the warning-warning dept.

Gamasutra reports on an official release regarding the problems at Wal-Mart stores with the 360 console. From the article: "Wal-Mart's 'network-based inventory management systems can be impacted by products using modern wireless signals,' a claim borne out by some of the Wal-Mart employees noting that other wireless devices, such as wireless phones, would accomplish the same thing. Microsoft has already addressed the problem, and 'a solution to this issue was developed within 24 hours of identifying the issue and we are currently deploying the fix to the affected locations.'" We've reported on this issue previously. A quick call to my local store confirmed that they do have a kiosk installed, but it's still down because of the issue.

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I saw what "the fix" was at my local wal-mart! by Turken · 2005-10-26 09:19 · Score: 5, Informative

So my local wal-mart has a new 360 kiosk installed. From what I can tell, "the fix" is simply replacing the offending wireless controller with a wired one. No wireless controller = no interference problem.

As for the system... I only had a few minutes to play. It looks nice, but I can't see a remarkable increase in quality over the current systems. Certainly not like there was from PS1 -> PS2.

Given these things, I think I'm going to wait until after the launch to decide if I want to buy one.