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Kid gets his hands on an Xbox 360...well, his step dad's 360 :D

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Originally posted by: Brackis
Based on the kids strong review, ps2fanboyage, and the vagueness of the images and quality this could become the best thing to happen so far to the 360 console in terms of marketing,
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aye...if ps3 endures ANY delys, sony's reputation is fvked.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Brackis
Based on the kids strong review, ps2fanboyage, and the vagueness of the images and quality this could become the best thing to happen so far to the 360 console in terms of marketing,
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aye...if ps3 endures ANY delys, sony's reputation is fvked.
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explain brackis. i don't see how this would help/hurt or have any affect on the outcome of the xbox a tall. i just don't see how this could help any type of marketing.
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
Based on the kids strong review, ps2fanboyage, and the vagueness of the images and quality this could become the best thing to happen so far to the 360 console in terms of marketing,
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Well let's hope MSFT sees it that way rather than that the dad violated NDA and gets fired.
 
The one thing that strikes me as odd is that in one pic the kid is holding the controller facing the TV, yet the Xbox 360 is behind him. Aren't the controllers IR?
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
The one thing that strikes me as odd is that in one pic the kid is holding the controller facing the TV, yet the Xbox 360 is behind him. Aren't the controllers IR?
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I think they are RF.

And this kid is a moron!
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
The one thing that strikes me as odd is that in one pic the kid is holding the controller facing the TV, yet the Xbox 360 is behind him. Aren't the controllers IR?
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they're rf like the wavebird
 
Originally posted by: Slasher2k
Originally posted by: NFS4
The one thing that strikes me as odd is that in one pic the kid is holding the controller facing the TV, yet the Xbox 360 is behind him. Aren't the controllers IR?
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I think they are RF.

And this kid is a moron!
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Yeah, RF.

And QFT
 
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: Brackis
Based on the kids strong review, ps2fanboyage, and the vagueness of the images and quality this could become the best thing to happen so far to the 360 console in terms of marketing,
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aye...if ps3 endures ANY delys, sony's reputation is fvked.
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explain brackis. i don't see how this would help/hurt or have any affect on the outcome of the xbox a tall. i just don't see how this could help any type of marketing.
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If someone who is a professed playstation lover comes out saying this new system plays Halo2 great and is impressive, but gives no details and weak pictures, peoples minds will begin to associate this as Microsoft taking its Xbox to a new level and attracting interest from those who have liked the playstation platform and wetting the lips of general game junkies who will assume that if even a loyal Sony lover likes it, there must be something great in it.
 
Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
Fvcking wow. I want to know how badly this kid gets beat down by his dad.
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Proper punishment would be to make him spend a month at Michael Jackson's house:laugh:
 
Did the kid even release any "secret" information? All I see are pics showing things which have already been released by Microsoft, accompanied with a glowing review.

For all we know, this kid could work for MS himself, lol.
 
Originally posted by: Brackis

If someone who is a professed playstation lover comes out saying this new system plays Halo2 great and is impressive, but gives no details and weak pictures, peoples minds will begin to associate this as Microsoft taking its Xbox to a new level and attracting interest from those who have liked the playstation platform and wetting the lips of general game junkies who will assume that if even a loyal Sony lover likes it, there must be something great in it.
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I agree.
 
19Vin Diesel Says:

July 18th, 2005 at 10:43 am
I live my life a load screen at a time. And for those 10 seconds, I?m free



😀
 
Originally posted by: Brackis
If someone who is a professed playstation lover comes out saying this new system plays Halo2 great and is impressive, but gives no details and weak pictures, peoples minds will begin to associate this as Microsoft taking its Xbox to a new level and attracting interest from those who have liked the playstation platform and wetting the lips of general game junkies who will assume that if even a loyal Sony lover likes it, there must be something great in it.
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Holy run on sentence, Batman.

I don't really see anything in that picture that hasn't been common knowledge for awhile. It's not like he's showing off games still in development or development screens. For all we know, it could just be a photoshop piece. It'd be cool to have a 360 now, but I can play Halo 2 on my current XBOX.
 
I call major shens for several reasons.

1) If mentioned step-father worked for M$ at the level described, then he wouldn't allow the hardware to be played about with by a kid, out of the office.

2) The pics prove nothing (how quickly could you put together a holding screen showing "XBOX 360" through a simple Video out on a PC)

3) Look at me, look at me; I've a AMD FX57 w' 2x7800 SLI playing pac-man, look how great it is!!
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: Brackis

If someone who is a professed playstation lover comes out saying this new system plays Halo2 great and is impressive, but gives no details and weak pictures, peoples minds will begin to associate this as Microsoft taking its Xbox to a new level and attracting interest from those who have liked the playstation platform and wetting the lips of general game junkies who will assume that if even a loyal Sony lover likes it, there must be something great in it.
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I agree.
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aaah, gotcha. yea that would be good marketing for them.

however, i think MS is doing a decent job marketing it, since this weekend I went to EB to reserve my XBox 360 and it was ALREADY sold out of preorders at EB, so I had to go to gamestop, where it TOO was sold out of them.

i then proceeded to go to another Gamestop at a mall closer to my house which I had forgotten existed, and I preordered one there. Next paycheck, I'm going to preorder another one if I can find another one so that i can sell it.
 
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