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Xbox 360 Very Unstable
fmwap writes "There have been several postings over at Xbox-scene complaining of crashing Xbox's on new games, with default settings on single player. Crashes on Xbox Live and on startup have been reported too, and Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap. Screenshots and Video are available showing the crash."
Seems like they got 1699 Parts of the x-box to the market:
/ 156253
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/18
and it seems to be the same in other forums too:
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=391764
..placing a book under one corner?
Wow, a Microsoft product is unstable. This is news!
Microsoft product crashes
Pope is discovered to be a Catholic
Family of bears accused of defecating in forested areas
what?!? No blue screen of death?
"You killed my yogurt!" --Fred Fredburger
Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap
Sounds like someone needs to improve their driving skills and stop blaming the system.
So the new XBoxes are crashing...let's just hope they've addressed the problem of the XBox bursting into flames and killing you. ^_^
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...where *did* you think all those Windows Millenium Edition licenses went?
Shenzhen Chuanghui Electronics Co...? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/ 21/0539250&tid=118&tid=137
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
A customer.
Furthermore, "geek up" the product so the alpha-testers will wait in line for 18 hours and pay twice as much as for competitor's hardware for this "priviledge".
Com'on, this is a bad hoax against Micro$oft. The screenshots are not even blue!
Million Dollar Screenshot
ME?! Is that you I smell! Get out of that Xbox THIS INSTANT!
You have to love the sheer audacity of posting a link to an MPEG on the Slashdot homepage.
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
Should have waited for Service Pack 1!
I've heard an unconfirmed rumor that Microsoft suspects that the XBox's are crashing because of the proximity of nearby Linux boxes. One employee, using an "open source detector", claimed to have established a 3-mile "Cloud of Evil" around a Red Hat server. The employee went on to say "This conclusively proves that Linux is a danger to our children". Steve Ballmer's statement (which was taped to a chair and thrown through a newsroom window) blamed Google.
>> Project Gotham Racing 3 crashes before finishing the first lap
You're playing a racing game. You're gonna crash.
Have you tried blowing on the DVD, and wiggling it around a bit?
You have to admit though. Those are some decent crash screens. Not unlike the screens you'd see when pulling out a Atari 2600 game cartridge with the power on. Hey wait, the crashes themselves look better than atari 2600 games. Oh no!
"I'm sorry, you'll need to contact the hardware manufacturer for that problem."
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
There is such a thing as quality control.
That's where you're wrong. There is such a *concept* as quality control. In the computer world, quality control means that someone checks to make sure that there's no mayonaise in it.
Kind thoughts do not change the world
We salute you!
If this is a big hardware problem I feel bad for the developers who had to work long hours to get their product ready for launch date.
hmmm..
DANTE: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
RANDALL: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed--casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look--you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia--this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
RANDALL: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
DANTE: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer...(digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
RANDALL: Like when?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
DANTE: Whose house was it?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Dominick Bambino's.
RANDALL: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
DANTE: Based on personal politics.
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
RANDALL: No way!
BLUE-COLLAR MAN: (paying Dante for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this...(taps his heart) not his wallet.
"If they have both, tell them we use Linux. And if they have that, tell them the computers are down." -Dave Chapelle
Yup, not enough synergy in the leveraging of ROM bits, it'll get your z-buffer out of sync with your bit blitter every time. When will they learn?
cmon mods... wtf
-everphilski-
These guys did pre-emptively what alot of XBox360 owners must feel like doing right now.
"I have not had one crash, and the only trace I've seen of it is on Kotaku."
What, exactly, is "a trace" of a crash? Sounds like "a little bit pregnant" to me...
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As much as the /. crowd complains about Microsoft products you would think they would realize buying version 1 of the 360 is like installing SP2 for Windows the day it comes out.
* Si hoc legere scis numium eruditionis habes *
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft astroturfers weren't deployed to say positive things at any web site where there might be........ anti-Microsoft... comm..... HEY, wait a doggone moment.
Admittedly, this is version 1 of the 360.
So you're saying it's going to take them 359 more versions to get it right? That sounds about par for the course from Microsoft.
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Since I wasn't lucky enought to get an xbox 360 yet, Send all your crashing xbox 360's to me, I will be more than happy to test them for all you people complaining.
Rob
Step 2: Stop playing Sony music CD's in your new XBox. Everyone knows by now only MS O/S's are vulnerable to being rooted by Sony malware.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
If overheating is the problem as a number of posts seem to suggest, then I can see why Microsoft waited to release XBox 360 in November. Expect the real wave of failures to start hitting about June of 2006.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I'm also paranoid about anything with wireless networking (that it'll have FBI or general purpose backdoors), so that's another strike. None of these corps would even think twice about installing backdoors (Microsoft and Sony have been doing this for years, and I don't see Nintendo as a bastion of consumer rights).
Don't flatter yourself, nobody in the entire world cares what is on your gaming console.
Perhaps you could share with us your incredibly accurate estimation technique?
:)
The best one I've heard was for the manager to take from the developers how much time it would take to complete the project, then double that, then take it to the next unit of measure.
Developer: 1 day
Manager: OK, that means 2 weeks.
Developer: 1 month
Manager: 2 years
Seems reasonable to me. At the least, its very conservative
Oh, come on. We^WThey'd never dream of doing something so low.
If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
...can anyone tell us what the Comedy Manual Phrase is for Xbox 360?
i.e. the warning phrase that is repeated throughout the manual in a worrying but also amusing way.
For Xbox, it was something like "...or the Xbox may fall and injure a small child". (pretty good)
For Dreamcast, it was "...otherwise the Dreamcast may catch fire." (the original, and still the best)
What is it for Xbox 360? :)
Xbox team : "We need a crash mode for Gotham racing 3 just like Burn out 3"
developpers : "Are you serious about the crash mode?"
Xbox team : "Ya, put a crash mode in"
developpers : "huh, oh, ok!".