The term "fanboy" has never been more rightfully earned. Meet Rob and Mindy Cunningham, whose loyalty to the Xbox brand is simply inconceivable. In the past year and a half, the Cunninghams have gone through SEVEN defective 360s and in the end went to Peter Moore to resolve the issue. You can find the full details here if you'd like to read the saga in detail. I assure you, it's the best thing I've read since Return of the King.
Personally, I tend to wait out all console launches. Firstly, because I'm a mildly boring person and prefer to buy a console for its games instead of its statistics. Second, because I like to watch and wait until all the glitches are ironed out. Now, I'm not saying I'm smarter than the Cunninghams (although I am), but I plead my point: why not see what the post launch brings? In the beginning, they freeze, they impale people's brains and God only knows what else. After a year to work out it's own kinks, 360 has become the best deal on the market. All I'm saying is, give a console a chance to hit its stride. If not, you could spend a lot of time in line at Best Buy.
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1:21 AM on 02.23.2007
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They stood to make a lot of money renting on the machines for the local kids to play.
How kind of them. Buy eight 360s, shafting seven people that wanted one, so they can charge neighbor kids to play them. God bless capitalism.
The way the article worded it made it sound like they did it for the money, not for the purpose of providing a cool service to the chitlin.
lol!
anyways.
From the sounds of the article, it seems like they would have had their boxes running most of the day. Heavy use would probably do that to an XBox, especially if the morons didn't properly give them ventilation.
I'm intentionally waiting for the new systems with 65nm CPUs before I buy one. A copper cooler with heatpipes in a CONSOLE is the stupidest thing I've ever seen in this industry.
Lethal Dosage: Yeah, we should have sold them on Ebay for big bux instead of running a small LAN center where dozens of people could play with the 360s (at the time, we had the only 360s in town, including retail-no WalMart, Target, Best Buy, etc-Our customers sincerely appreciated getting hands-on time with a 360 for $2 an hour), which DIRECTLY resulted in at least 2 dozen of them buying their own 340s, including several from us when WE could get them in stock (Yes, we were a small retailer as well as a LAN center).
Mylor: Unlike you, good kind sir, I am no moron. 4 of the seven were for commercial use, and the average on-time per unit was 2-3 hours a day. Seem excessive to you? And regarding overheating-Absolutely not. These were a BUSINESS investment, and taking care of your systems is of paramount importance. I read all the forums, and I well know the situations that can lead to premature failure. Nice try, but you lose-moron (doesn't feel so nice, does it?).
Orange Hat Man: Yep-7. Wouldn't you be pissed, too?
Pepillou2: Mmmmmm-Muffins.
Either way, wasn't Zero Hour great? We still wear the hoodies all the time.
Zero Hour was a hoot (except for that awful rappin' clown that closed the festivities). I still have 4 white beanbag chairs and two of the green traffic cones! I told Peter Moore in my letter that we were going to sell off all of our 360 schwag, except our Zero Hour hoodies because "unlike the 360, they appear to be well-constructed".
I wore my hoodie this morning, and my wife is wearing hers as I type. Fascinating, I know.
And yes the clown at the end was awful. For all the work they put into the event, you think the actual countdown and ending festivities would have been done a lot better!