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 Last gasp for original Xbox? 122k Madden NFL, 80 Consoles sold in Augu |
| Xbox-Scene |
 Sep 15 2007, 02:24 AM
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Memba Numero Uno  Group: Admin Posts: 4177 Joined: 17-May 02 From: Yurop Member No.: 1 Xbox Version: unk 360 version: unknown  |
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| ploggy |
Sep 15 2007, 01:59 AM
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X-S Young Member  Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 18-May 05 Member No.: 221876 |
I think microsoft could have easily got another 2 years out of the XBOX bad boy.
Look at the PS2. This post has been edited by ploggy: Sep 15 2007, 02:01 AM |
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| xboxgamer999 |
Sep 15 2007, 02:03 AM
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X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 9-July 07 Member No.: 348491 |
I think they could have gotten even more then that.
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| Booker T |
Sep 15 2007, 02:04 AM
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 X-S Genius Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: 14-April 03 Member No.: 32166 Xbox Version: v1.1 360 version: none |
Biggest mistake microsoft ever did was to drop the original xbox so early,you see sony still making money off the ps2 and will probably make even more when they drop the price to 99 dollars.Microsoft still screwed the original xbox and couldn't care less thats why sometimes i wish i would have invested in a ps2.
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| XanTium |
Sep 15 2007, 02:04 AM
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 Xanta Powa! Group: Admin Posts: 3069 Joined: 17-May 02 From: Solaris Member No.: 2 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v1 (xenon)  |
they certainly could.
I think they killed it off because they couldn't get production price down (due the price Intel and Nvidia were charging for CPU and GPU/NBirdge). Even at the end of production MS was still losing money on each xbox sold. |
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| sgr215 |
Sep 15 2007, 02:24 AM
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X-S X-perience Group: Members Posts: 329 Joined: 16-September 03 From: Lutherville, MD Member No.: 62757 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: v1 (xenon) |
"And in related news, all 80 xbox consoles were modified shortly after and turned into dedicated media centers."
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| Landlocked |
Sep 15 2007, 02:57 AM
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X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 199826 |
What's bigger news is that 122,000 original Xboxes still work!
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| xjustsumloserx |
Sep 15 2007, 03:00 AM
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X-S Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 25-July 04 Member No.: 133201 Xbox Version: unk 360 version: unknown  |
where the hell can you purchase a new xbox?
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| Trex666 |
Sep 15 2007, 03:01 AM
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 X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 4-December 05 From: London, UK Member No.: 261696 Xbox Version: v1.3 360 version: v1 (xenon)  |
QUOTE(Landlocked @ Sep 15 2007, 03:33 AM)  What's bigger news is that 122,000 original Xboxes still work! Are you saying they shouldn't? Build quality on the first Xboxes were amazing (except for a few minor problems with the PSU). The amount of problems people are having with the 360 is embarrassing for Microsoft. The optical drive, the pads, microphones, warping motherboards, overheating, RLODs the list goes on... Worse than the PS2. I expect mine to live for years as a media centre. This post has been edited by Trex666: Sep 15 2007, 03:05 AM |
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| gerzand |
Sep 15 2007, 03:03 AM
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X-S X-perience Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 18-September 02 Member No.: 3961 |
QUOTE(xjustsumloserx @ Sep 14 2007, 10:36 PM) where the hell can you purchase a new xbox? beats me. maybe in kazakhstan? |
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| ThaCrip |
Sep 15 2007, 04:47 AM
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X-S Freak Group: Members Posts: 1394 Joined: 15-February 05 Member No.: 198791 Xbox Version: v1.0 360 version: unknown |
QUOTE(sgr215 @ Sep 14 2007, 10:00 PM) "And in related news, all 80 xbox consoles were modified shortly after and turned into dedicated media centers." pretty much  ... cause thats the main reason my xbox1 still see's a pretty good ammount of usage is XBMC (mainly for XviD Movies) |
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| SueMiBlitch |
Sep 15 2007, 04:50 AM
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X-S Member Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: 15-July 04 Member No.: 130468 |
my modded box is the media center i never expected it to be... i wouldn't spend money on some store bought media center ever... i would find anohter xbox and mod it
worst thing M$ did was blackball the modding community... thats why xbox 1 will always be better than the ps2 (its not that it has the better controller, better graphics, better FPS titles) its the community of talented homebrew people that have just made my xbox a joy to have what we need is XBMC to put on x264 codec support |
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| Shonk |
Sep 15 2007, 05:03 AM
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X-S Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 7-January 03 Member No.: 16927 Xbox Version: v1.6 360 version: v3.0 (falcon) |
if they drop thte 360 like they did the xbox it will be the last cash they see from me
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| Master Reefed |
Sep 15 2007, 05:06 AM
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X-S Expert Group: Members Posts: 668 Joined: 6-July 04 Member No.: 129087 |
I think the reason the tanked it is the obvious one.
Because it was hacked to all hell, and there was next to nothing they could do about it. By modding the orriginal XBOX you were getting WAY more outve it, than what you paid them to use it for...and they couldnt charge ya... so they said fuck it, and put everything in the XBOX division into 360, knowing it would be the most powerful console on the market getting that huge head start they needed so much. thats just my 2 cents though lol I read somewhere that this will be the very first quarter (the Halo 3 quarter) the XBOX division of Micro$oft has made a profit (which is hard to believe with all the record Halo2 broke.) |
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| Booker T |
Sep 15 2007, 05:47 AM
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X-S Genius Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: 14-April 03 Member No.: 32166 Xbox Version: v1.1 360 version: none |
QUOTE(Master Reefed @ Sep 14 2007, 11:42 PM) I think the reason the tanked it is the obvious one. Because it was hacked to all hell, and there was next to nothing they could do about it. By modding the orriginal XBOX you were getting WAY more outve it, than what you paid them to use it for...and they couldnt charge ya... so they said fuck it, and put everything in the XBOX division into 360, knowing it would be the most powerful console on the market getting that huge head start they needed so much. thats just my 2 cents though lol I read somewhere that this will be the very first quarter (the Halo 3 quarter) the XBOX division of Micro$oft has made a profit (which is hard to believe with all the record Halo2 broke.) "By modding the orriginal XBOX you were getting WAY more outve it, than what you paid them to use it for...and they couldnt charge ya... so they said fuck it, and put everything in the XBOX division into 360, knowing it would be the most powerful console on the market getting that huge head start they needed so much." Don't you get more then you pay for when you mod any console?The ps2 a strong modding community way before the xbox and it still was profitible for sony.The problems with the xbox were it came out two late and they didn't get good third party support until later. This post has been edited by Booker T: Sep 15 2007, 05:48 AM |
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