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Journeyman
One reasonable gamer says that "Between my friends and I, we bought 6 machines at the Zero Hour event. Of the 6, my machine has a dead hard drive, another machine is working but is rather flaky (seen some strange behavior - the drive may also be scratching discs, as my friend's copy of Condemned is now unplayably scratched, but we don't know if the drive caused it - the machine has also had problems booting games and being turned off...), one seems to be good, and I haven't heard yet about the status of the other three."
Is it time already for recall button to be pressed by Microsoft?
Blogs and forums around the world seem centered on one fellow's experience - a poster called "Jsgongwon" on the Xbox-Scene forums who included pictures of his crash, which apparently happened repeatedly during Project Gotham Racing 3. "So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing... also got this crashing on Xbox Live screen and on startup too..." he writes.
Another person reported thathis 360 "just turned off" during Perfect Dark Zero.
But that there are some systems experiencing real problems is not in doubt. Some of them overheated and crashed during Project Gotham Racing 3, though not as spectacularly as Jsgongwon's experience. Dan "Shoe" Hsu also reported that a very strange echo effect happened during Xbox Live play of Perfect Dark Zero - sometimes a word said over chat would endlessly repeat in a strange echo effect over and over in the headphones. Some kind of bizarre feedback loop?
Just how widespread is the scope of 360 problems, though? It's a little too early to call whether these problems are systemic or isolated bugs.
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Is it time already for recall button to be pressed by Microsoft?
Blogs and forums around the world seem centered on one fellow's experience - a poster called "Jsgongwon" on the Xbox-Scene forums who included pictures of his crash, which apparently happened repeatedly during Project Gotham Racing 3. "So far haven't been able to play one track without crashing... also got this crashing on Xbox Live screen and on startup too..." he writes.
Another person reported thathis 360 "just turned off" during Perfect Dark Zero.
But that there are some systems experiencing real problems is not in doubt. Some of them overheated and crashed during Project Gotham Racing 3, though not as spectacularly as Jsgongwon's experience. Dan "Shoe" Hsu also reported that a very strange echo effect happened during Xbox Live play of Perfect Dark Zero - sometimes a word said over chat would endlessly repeat in a strange echo effect over and over in the headphones. Some kind of bizarre feedback loop?
Just how widespread is the scope of 360 problems, though? It's a little too early to call whether these problems are systemic or isolated bugs.
... CHECK OUT THESE PICS ...
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990154/
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990156/
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990158/
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65990159/
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995966/
*www.flickr.com/photos/80491849@N00/65995967/
*forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=461074&st=0
picture courtesy of jsgongwon from *forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=462241