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The Xbox - Dirty Secrets

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Fidel:
Listen Every console has Versions, the xbox has versions 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 thats all. The thompson drives are crap I have on myself but for 90 bucks I replaced it with a samsung. I bet if you look for PS2 models you will get shocked at the amount you see. Please dont complain when your generation 1 Xbox or PS2 brakes its bound to happen. Just to add al little story of my own, I had a ver 1 xbox and its power supply busted (my fault) and the cd rom acted up like the thompson drive does (this is after 2years of use) and it broke. My ps2 broke the Power supply broke and it was a model that came out two years after the ps2 was out.

 
quote:yeah, thompson drive.
those are the drives used in the very first batch's of the xboxen

later on it was discovered that they had problems after prolonged use (something very difficult to test for)
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my X box came out first day ok, and I used it for two years without a problem. now to do a test for I dunno how many days weeks months your not gonna find a porblem, at least if you know how to handle a system and its game disc's. dont act like Xbox is the only system to have problems in its first genaration system I mean look at the PS2 for christs Sake!

[ July 21, 2004: Message edited by: Hmph? ]

mobrien_12:
So essentially MS wants to charge you $100 to refurbish your broken console, when you can buy a new one for $150.

TB:
$100 for refurbishment...........sounds like a nice little scam to help M$ recoup the loss they made on every console.

But of course we know M$ would never do something devious like that  ;)    ;)    ;)

Fidel:
no they want you to buy a new one. What about sony they charge the same price for new game that Microsoft does, even thou they use cheaper discs(they could charge less for their game, because the price diffrence in Dual layer 9.8gb xbox discs is much more than the single layer 4.2gb disc that sony uses).

 
quote:$100 for refurbishment...........sounds like a nice little scam to help M$ recoup the loss they made on every console.
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I would agree with your scam theory if Every X box anyone has owned broke, which is simply not true.
Also microsoft wants you to buy a new one, with a free two year warrenty that if your xbox ever fails you can get a new one free of charge, and this is for every time and any time you it breaks.
What about the Bs sony pulled when it said that a shipment of PS2s were lost, while they didnt raise the price, no photos were ever shown of the incident and they made people starve to get a console.

skyman8081:
yeah, Sony's hardware in all the playstations are an absolute POS.

PS3 sould be slot-loaded, so it can run sideways, and upside-down.

like the original Playstation should have been, to counter the skipping issues.

Sony's consoles are always plauged with problems.

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