Microsoft boosts Xbox 360 component orders due to upcoming Halo 3 laun Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Microsoft boosts Xbox 360 component orders due to upcoming Halo 3 launch Posted by XanTium | July 4 10:05 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From beyond3d.com: [QUOTE] Words on the street of Taipei has it that optical drive OEM Lite-On IT expects to increase its shipments of DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360 at the eve of anticipated launch of the third Halo game, Microsoft's biggest gaming franchise. DigiTimes also reports that Lite-On declined to comment due to non-disclosure agreements that bind the company to their clients. Sources close to component makers, which supply Lite-On with DVD-ROM drive parts, said that they began to increase their shipment toward Lite-On in June. In other words, the production of DVD-ROM drives has definitely gone up at Lite-On and the Halo (3) effect on the Q3/Q4 Xbox 360 sales has surely something to do with that. [/QUOTE] Full Story: beyond3d.com | digitimes.com

[pot024]

I know a lot of my friends have been waiting for this to buy their 360.

This post has been edited by pot024: Jul 4 2007, 03:16 PM

[Landlocked]

The Xbox 360 repair center had better hire more people to fix the increased number of units that overheat and break...

[luther349]

The Xbox 360 repair center had better hire more people to fix the increased number of units that overheat and break...

not so mutch that but thers going to be increased sales due to halo 3.

[mcatrage]

I think Mass Effect, GTA 4, Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed might also be contributing to the perceived increase.

[tommy_v]

How much of this drives are appearing now? compared to the hitachi Lg and Samsung drives, is there gonna be a fix for this drive?

[Altima NEO]

Better get your 360's serviced now before the Halo 3 comes out. Otherwise, it might be a longer wait than just 2-3 weeks.

[coldasice]

I really wonder if MS will have problems with all these new systems for Halo 3. I think with such a popular title releasing they would have done more to make their consoles more reliable. They could be missing out on a huge chunk of previous buyers because everyone knows the 360 is nothing more than a fat peice of plastic, metal, and fiberglass.

[zequal]

i dont know why but i have the feeling microsoft is rushing the production of the 360, and rushing electronics in production is not good. *yeeeey, some more faulty 360s are going to hit the shelves*

[mc_365]

I don't think they are rushing.

I think the entire design and engineering was not tested thoroughly enough.

Maybe they didn't have any software to accurately immitate a real top notch 3D HD all Eye Candied out fast frame Game, played at various room temps and humitity levels.

If your test don't mirror real world conditions youll never discover real world problems.

I have a luanch day system and it plays everything great except GOW.

GOW makes my 360 freeze MS can deny all they want but its true.

I can play 2 min or 2 hours you never know.

I wish someone would make a replacement case and GPU PCU cooling system.

I wouldn't care if it didn't look like a 360.

Just as long as it keeps my 360 cool and functioning.

[avatar1976]

I think the entire design and engineering was not tested thoroughly enough.

Maybe they didn't have any software to accurately immitate a real top notch 3D HD all Eye Candied out fast frame Game, played at various room temps and humitity levels.

If your test don't mirror real world conditions youll never discover real world problems.

That's the most rational thing I've seen on here for a long time about the problem, and I would fully agree with you, my Australian Launch 360 worked fine until it went through a 10 hour session of Crackdown. After that I got it to boot one more time at which point it locked up in Media Center Extender and then never came back on properly, 3ROD. I've done RBJtech's xclamp replacement to get it going again and his fan shroud seperator and I draw alot more heat out of the GPU fan now. I've also replaced the stock fans with talismoon whisper fans as well as added an XCM 360 high speed fan in behind the Ring of light. My 360 is much cooler now (except at the back where the heat now seems to pool due to the convection of the air toward the back of the console). I've also stuck a $20 USB clip on fan on the outside so that it keeps drawing air out of the 360 when it gets switched off, for about five minutes afterward I can still feel heat in the air it's drawing out. To people who say the USB fans do nothing I think you're wrong, nothing else will keep cooling your 360 afterwards, following the logic of the turbo timer, your console without air flow will be at it's hottest when you switch it off.
Also there seems to be this belief that the 360 CPU and GPU run at 100% no matter what you're doing, I say crap because can you imagine what a piece of rubbish the console would be if it was plateued at 100% CPU/GPU while it's sitting idle at the dashboard. It's like saying windows is running full bore all the time while it's sitting doing nothing. I believe that the console does get hotter depending on what it's doing almost certainly, early games like PGR3 don't seem to make mine anywhere near as hot as say Gears of War, true that is an entirely subjective assessment but I'm not the only one making that subjective assessment.

[grap3]

not so mutch that but thers going to be increased sales due to halo 3.

Wow... You completely missed the joke.

[0794]

makes sense that more components to make 360s will be needed for the anticipated new sales due to the release of H3.

i only hope that if my 360 bricks from playing H3 excessively that i can still find another 360 in the local stores so that i may keep on playin' while my original gets "repaired."

[Tony42077]

I'm not going to buy another 360 until the smaller chips are out in the wild, whether it be late '07 or late '08. The system in its current iteration is way too unreliable. I just hope that smaller chips and better heatsinks/compound will stop the mobo from warping so much. From what I've heard, it would make most sense to make thicker mobos that would resist flexing more. We'll see if the MS engineers/accountants can figure out a way to make this thing more stable. From what I've seen, I'm not gonna hold my breath.

[FCTE]

If your test don't mirror real world conditions youll never discover real world problems.

No companies are doing that anymore, it's cheaper to have the consumers test the product and find the bugs and flaws. Saves major dollars on R&D.

Sucks for us, bargain for them, even with the warranty exchanges. Everyone is doing it this way, even automobile manufacturers to some extent, which is real scary.

This post has been edited by FCTE: Jul 5 2007, 05:54 AM