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Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers' Access To Xbox Live
Stoobalou writes "Microsoft's Kinect motion controller isn't due to ship until November 4th, but one retailer has jumped the gun, leaving a number of gamers with a bit of a quandary. The un-named distributor has sent what Microsoft describes as 'a very small number' of Kinect systems to lucky buyers who might not consider themselves quite so lucky if they try to use the device and its bundled games. Installing the games will require a firmware upgrade, which is nothing out of the ordinary, but in this case the upgrade hasn't yet been released. Attempting to install the non-existent update seems to fool the console into thinking you are trying to play a pirated game and locks the user out of Microsoft's Xbox Live on-line service."
Well I guess if you buy the game and don't play it for somewhere between 5 and 10 years, and miss out on the install once FIRMWARE and you finally try to play it for the first time after the xbox live servers go dark, it may not work. fucking retard