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Title: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: adiment on 20 July 2005, 04:09
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It’s pretty common for kids to go trolling on game forums and make obnoxious claims such as having a go on the Xbox 360 in their own home. Well, this thread on Gamespot started that way, except the kid actually backed up his claims with these photos:

 




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Now the kid is begging to get the thread deleted (maybe he found out what an NDA is), but the cat is already out of the bag. Apparently his step dad just started working for Microsoft under the title of Regulatory Compliance Manager, and is currently hardware testing the Xbox 360. The wires coming out the top are for such testing. The hardware is apparently complete, and although there were no 360 games to test, he gave Halo 2 a spin in backwards compatibility. He is claiming the power supply is external, and is enourmous. He also raved about the user interface/dashboard and the feel of the controller (and this coming from an admitted PlayStation fan, so it must be good).

You are a damn lucky kid, but I hope you didn’t just cost your step dad his new job.


Pics.
http://www.360hacker.net/articles/07-18-2005/first-xbox-360-seen-in-the-wild
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: MrX on 20 July 2005, 07:01
cool that rocks
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 20 July 2005, 14:20
is it faster than Xbox?
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 20 July 2005, 14:21
I think PS 3 will be better......
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: piratePenguin on 20 July 2005, 15:20
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is it faster than Xbox? :beos:
Erm. Yes.
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I think PS 3 will be better......
So do I. The Nintendo Revolution should be pretty good too, I'd love to see it kick the Xbox 360 and PS3's asses.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 20 July 2005, 16:53
i  dont think it will because nitendo doesnt make all the same gam es as sony and Xbox:beos:
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: piratePenguin on 20 July 2005, 17:16
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i  dont think it will because nitendo doesnt make all the same gam es as sony and Xbox:beos:
Nintendo make few games, Microsoft make some, and I don't think Sony make any. It's the third party software developers that make the most games, and from what I've read, they look forward to making software for the Nintendo Revolution.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: MrX on 20 July 2005, 18:07
Nintendo always seems to make weak budgeted down one pea in a watered down soup version of a game console. What's that? Game cube I hear?
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: piratePenguin on 20 July 2005, 18:24
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Nintendo always seems to make weak budgeted down one pea in a watered down soup version of a game console. What's that? Game cube I hear?
Do you ever make sense?

Their consoles aren't too powerful, but it's what they do with the little power that matters. The Xbox 360 is just gone over the top, they won't gain all that much extra, and will just bloat up the price, and perhaps the games too.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: MrX on 20 July 2005, 21:40
All the bloat, in the boat.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Refalm on 20 July 2005, 23:21
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Nintendo always seems to make weak budgeted down one pea in a watered down soup version of a game console. What's that? Game cube I hear?

It's the games that matter. And if the console is a little bit less powerful than the competetors, it's well compensated by kick ass games.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: MrX on 21 July 2005, 00:25
agreed. you have a point Refalm
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 21 July 2005, 08:06
but it would still be better if they made more of the same games as play station and Xbox becoause they have the same games sept i gess i can't forget about that 1 game that was made for all of the systems.....  :beos:
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: skyman8081 on 21 July 2005, 08:08
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but it would still be better if they made more of the same games as play station and Xbox becoause they have the same games sept i gess i can't forget about that 1 game that was made for all of the systems.....  :beos:

 Can you please speak coherent English.  I have no fucking clue what you just wrote.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 21 July 2005, 08:27
yeah i know i it doesnt make sence lol....... im stupid lol
 :beos:
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Annorax on 21 July 2005, 08:55
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Can you please speak coherent English.  I have no fucking clue what you just wrote.


Does Mr.X ever speak coherent English?
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 21 July 2005, 09:07
he was talking to me..........  :thumbdwn:  :beos:
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Lead Head on 21 July 2005, 15:48
Nintendo says the gamecube can push 12.5 Million Polygons per sec, The xbox and PS2 say thay can push about 60Million polygons s sedoned, but what they dont mention is that this is with No FSAA, 1 texture, low dedtail, basicly everything set to as low as it can go, while they gamecube's polygon a seconed measurement is with everything turned upto max , mutiple texture, 4xFSAA, everything on high, but when everything is turned up on the xbox and PS2 that number drops, alot to about 12-14 million Polygons a sec showing that the gamecube is weak. Well atleast when it first came out it didn't freeze up and isnt diificult to program.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: sjor on 21 July 2005, 18:21
I prefer PS3 to XBOX 360

(http://www.ps3portal.com/downloads/PlayStation%203/11163150407.jpg)
I think it looks better.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: DBX_5 on 21 July 2005, 19:32
oh cool i didnt think they had them in  diffrant colours yet i thought they were just going to keep it white lol....... :beos:
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Lead Head on 21 July 2005, 20:05
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[verwijderd door de beheerder]
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Lead Head on 21 July 2005, 20:16
.(http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/4c0138db-4f43-4e02-9845-9e8db185272f.jpg)
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: sjor on 21 July 2005, 21:45
nintendo revolution? that looks a bit retro. I like it :D
although i still prefer ps3
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Lead Head on 21 July 2005, 22:03
Yes, that is the revoluton, it is slightly samller than 3 DVD cases stacked on top of each other, and finally a nintendo product that can play Dvds and is backward comaptible with games from every system they made.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: piratePenguin on 21 July 2005, 22:16
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backward comaptible with games from every system they made.
NO! Only the recent ones (not the old cartridge ones).
;)

EDIT: Oops I see I was wrong.
Title: Re: Kid with XB360. Stepdad = Fired?
Post by: Lead Head on 21 July 2005, 22:21
yes it will, you just have to download the old games through the revolution's online service and put the gane in its memory