[Gllug] Microsoft software crashing - never - Oh gosh in an Xbox too ;-)

[Xander D Harkness]

I know many here read slashdot - for those that do not - I thought that
you would find this funny :-)

Cheers
Xander

http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/news/news.pl?y=2001&m=10&nid=22-159.db


 There’s an Xbox that’s broken and it isn’t in any living room in
America yet. The Xbox demo unit at a nearby Toys R Us store could not
give consumers a taste of the new Microsoft console because of severe
loading problems. The Xbox unit had no disc inside and displayed a menu
screen to access the hard drive and CD player. But customers who tried
to navigate through menus could do little else but wait while the
machine tried to load the next menu. The audio that accompanied the menu
screen transition skipped severely as well. After a three minute wait,
the Xbox reached the next screen but continued to have load problems.
Multiple resets also failed to resolve the problem. Soon after, a screen
appeared that said the Xbox needed customer service repair. The screen
provided a list of customer service phone numbers to contact.

Several Toys R Us employees did not know what went wrong with the Xbox
demo unit that now carried a “Out of Order” sign. The store received
their unit on Tuesday. The in-store demo units are believed to be actual
finalized hardware that consumers will see at launch.

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GA has received several reports on problems with in-store Xbox units.

An Xbox unit in the Germantown, MD Target store is reported to have
"freezing" problems that requires employees to open the kiosk every 75
minutes to reset the console.

An Xbox unit in Software Etc. store in Souix Falls, SD was reported to
skip, freeze, and have audio problems.

An Xbox unit at a Babbages store in Mobile, AL was reported to have
similar problems.

A Babbages employee at the Dearborn, MI store reports that their Xbox
unit does not function.

"Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area,
only two have working units," says the employee.

Microsoft recently delayed the Xbox launch and will ship an unspecified
number of units on November 15th. It’s unclear whether load problems
were a source for delay. A Microsoft representative was contacted for
the story but did not reply at press time.

We’ll have more as it develops, here at GA.




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