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Posted: 22nd Nov 2005 22:31
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time to lurk on the Xbox forums and see what people are saying about it , I bet most people buy the fully loaded version, if your gonna pay that much for a console then the extra £60 or so isn`t going to deter most people from having the better spec machine (and some people are going to end up buying the basic version just cos they "have to have it" and the full ones are sold out)



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Jimmy
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2005 22:35
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I have already bought like 3, all hooked up in my room. I am playing all the latest title games on them right now. It is so awesome.


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RegenProZ
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Lucky, not out till 2nd Dec in UK.


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LOL: yeah?, I think that guy sold you some old stock gamecubes painted white (I told him too anyway...paid good money)



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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2005 22:39
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Quote: "Lucky, not out till 2nd Dec in UK.

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It is in japan and the usa i think

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Lukas W
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a friend of mine asked if he could borrow 5000norwegian krones so he can buy it i dont know what to say

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I'm sorely tempted to buy as many as I can and hope for the promised Christmas shortage and then flog 'em on ebay for a nice tidy profit. Knowing my luck though I'd end up losing money.

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Deadwords
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At 9 Hours AM today, the shops opened. 30 Mintues later, there was no more X360. I hate this, why everybody said they will wait to see the PS3 and nobody do it in Canada? lol...

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With any luck when the 360 is released over here it'll send the price of PS2 games down a bit, giving me chance to grab the ones I've always wanted but never had the moolah to buy.


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Undercover Steve
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Haha.. Every store sold out after 50 people.. *cough* microsoft marketing*cough*

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Dot Merix
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2005 02:19
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Got mine today.. Got PDZ so far, premium package an extra controller and an extra rechargeable battery pack.. unfortuneately all the plug and play kits were sold out all over town.

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2005 02:24
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Quote: "Got mine today.. "

arrg... how the hell that you finded one? You sleeped in front of a store anyway when i will get my X360, i will buy Call Of Duty 2 but Perfect Dark Zero and Project Gotham Racing seems pretty awsome! The Motion Blur from PDZ is amazing and PGR cars and tracks seems like real-life. COD2 will be great, as i can't stop playing the demo on the PC

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Well i was there 15 hours before the store opened.. so yeah, pretty much slept there.

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2005 05:02 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2005 05:03
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To camp out on the street for video games is truly rock-bottom.

You guys really make me feel better about myself. I thought I was rock-bottom just for PLAYING videogames instead of workin in DBP.


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The futureshop i went to got 35 total.. All the premiums were preordered so anyone standing outside couldnt get one.

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Quote: "To camp out on the street for video games is truly rock-bottom."


Yeah, I would be super pissed if I preordered a Premium 360 just to have them not have it available today. I played the system for the first time today in Future Shop--- it was pretty amazing. Kameo looks just like a Nintendo game

Hopefully this job process I'm going through with a large videogame developer pans out for me (I should find out by the end of the week), and if so I hope they have some kind of purchase plan for their employees

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i went to six f***ing different stores 45min before each of them opened, and i still didnt get one, there were lines with 50+ people in front of each and every one. then my freind, who is a playstation fanboy, got one because his mom is in the best buy management chain......screw it, thats what i have my N64 for, has anyone compared the first pefect dark to the second one yet?

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If people are so desperate to wait in line for hours why don´t they preorder it? Do they like waiting in line?
Sony´s strategy with the Ps2 was much sneekier. Have lots availiable for launch and then decrease supply making the ones they have sold more desiarble so when they flood the shops with them not only are they cheaper to make but there´s also an army of raving gamers ready to snap them up.

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umm.. i just rented mech assault 2... i'm happy

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2005 18:03
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Quote: "has anyone compared the first pefect dark to the second one yet?"


Why would they? They're different games. That's like comparing Super Mario Bros. 1 to Super Mario on the SNES--- they're different games.

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"I'm sorely tempted to buy as many as I can and hope for the promised Christmas shortage and then flog 'em on ebay for a nice tidy profit."

Yup I'm doing exactly that

The only consoles I was ever THAT excited about were the N64 and the Dreamcast, I actually bothered to pre-order those, basically cos I wanted to play 3d versions of Mario and Sonic respectively cos as a kids I loved the 2d versiosn But on both occasions I:

A: Didn't do anything stupid like sleep outside in the cold, I just pre-ordered and walked in after a lie-in and;
B: Regreatted it when no other "must have" games were released for about 6 months, after which time the consoles were about 100 quid cheaper!

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Posted: 25th Nov 2005 00:02 Edited at: 25th Nov 2005 00:03
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I bought the N64 on launch day for £300 I believe, and also bought a memory card, a 2nd controller, Turok (what a load of rubbish, and £70 on it's own!!!!!), Mario, and the Star Wars game for a total of £470 if I remember rightly. God....

Think I've learnt my lesson now. Have an X-Box, GC, and PS2 (and newer smaller PS2 - was so cute!). Totally isn't worth buying the damn things too early. Apart from the X-Box I bought them all on day of release and watched as everything tumbled in price. Rats. At least I left the X-Box quite late (a year ago) as it didn't look that great (big and clunky) in my bedroom. Probably saved a few hundred on the original price over here.

So will not bother with a 360 for quite a while. I can resist...... Luckily I still have about 20 unplayed games on all 3 consoles that I haven't got around to playing. So should make me resist temptation..... until the PS3 comes out.....

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Kinda reminds me, all 8-bit NES consoles initially released in japan were defectious, and were returned to the factory. Nothing has changed in all this time?!?!

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Quote: " If people are so desperate to wait in line for hours why don´t they preorder it? Do they like waiting in line? "


First off, half the eople who preorderd it will get the system now,the others will half to wait until april, and secondly microsofts marketing wasnt the problem it was that damn mountian dew every ten minutes skeem they bought ten thousand of them and still didnt have enough, because microsoft couldant produce enough in time.

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Microsoft SPONSERED the mountain dew thing. Part of the brilliant Microsoft scheme! And april because microsoft likes to make its paying customers WAIT, and then the new customers reap the benifit. A lot of people at work were like "Yah, I am getting that during lunch". I laughed, and they hated me and said I was lieing, and it would be available..everyone returned pissed, not having an xbox 360

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Hey guys,
i rented the Xbox 360. I picked the only game avaible at the video club, Need For Speed Most Wanted. One word for the Xbox 360: WOW!!!

This is something. I paid 25$ for a Xbox 360 rent, and i not paid that for nothing.

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Quote: "Quote: "has anyone compared the first pefect dark to the second one yet?"

Why would they? They're different games. That's like comparing Super Mario Bros. 1 to Super Mario on the SNES--- they're different games.
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i think its quite fair to compare them, the first one was a ground breaking fps, i want to know if the new one is equally as revolutionary, is it just as balanced? as there as many gameplay options as the first one? will rare ever succeed it in its hopes to make a successful sequel?

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lol i just played in game in the uk call of duty 2 but i think it's more like ps2 graphics

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.....Call of duty 2 is like PS2 graphics.. You must be drunk.

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First off, half the eople who preorderd it will get the system now,the others will half to wait until april"


Bull. I get mine December 6th and I preordered it. Reason beign is because of shortage of supplies.

And COD2 with ps2 graphics... you've just solidified yourself as an even bigger moron in my books.

Anyways I can't wait to get mine because I have PGR3, Kameo, COD2, and PDZ on my shelf just waiting to be played... and no one I know has a 360.

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Hey does anyone know if Call of duty has 2 player co-op mode for the storyline part of the game?

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Dot Merix
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I checked it out.. Call of duty does not have a co-op mode for the missions part of the game..

By the way, just bought Condemned yesterday and it's really kick ass!



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