I have been reading on forums that people are already having problems with the new Xbox 360, disk reading errors freezing up etc oh how I look forward to getting mine now in 9 days in the vain hope thta I have no problems but knowing my luck I will

 

Lovin the guy whose moaning as it keeps overheating, turns out he has its wedged between his PS2 and VCR !!

Gotta love those kerrazzzy yanks.....

 

They are being manufactured in the UK by Celestica so expect plenty of problems

 

Celestica are co manufacturing them but in southern china - UK would be too expensive

 

I'm still reading about problems with the machines this doesn't look good on M$ behalf

 

I'm taking it with a pinch of salt....... in this world there are lost of fanboys who want to tanrnish then Xbox before it's big. I just seen a video that was on xbox-scene.com that shows a crash ? it looked like a bad av connection and a pause to me

when my console crashes I'll believe until then ..... roll on next Friday.

 

Yeah true I just don't fancy getting it at midnight to find it crashes it's **** off, sold my Xbox on Fleabay the other day which I'm very happy about as it won't be lying around the house unlike my N64 which is in a draw under the bed lol

 

If you look into the problems they've been having, they're down to overheating because they've not put the console in a well ventilated area, despite the fact that it clearly states that you have to do this in the user manual. I guess they can't read or something...

 

just hope my 360 will be ok in this mess

 

Celestica is also a courier company which gives me constant grief. Just hope the shipments arent being brought in by them

 

i thought its been designed to be a family media centre, so its going to be placed in cabinets along with the vcr/dvd players. If it cant handle that then its not very well designed is it

 

Processing power at the level of the 360 generates a lot of heat. You need good ventilation around the console to get rid of this otherwise things will go wrong. It states this clearly in the user manual.

The same conditions apply to home cinema amps etc, and it even says it on our sky box, so I don't really see why you think it's a bad design.

Out of interest, the ps3 is rumoured to generate even more heat than the 360 from what I've heard, so expect the same problems there as well...

 

Well the PS3 heat thing doesn't surprise me considering it's marketed by an ex boxer

 

At least you will save on the winter heating bills

 

its ok if youve got the open glass stand that you get with your widescreen but what about those that get cabinets to hide them away - which isnt uncommon. Even if there is access (ventilation) to the back, will this be good enough?

 

Remember that the 360's PSU also as a fan fitted and needs ventilation as much as the console. Penny to a pound that these numpties with failing consoles have got the PSU stuffed in under a bunch of dusty cables.

 

Looking at the size of the X360 PSU it would make a good foot warmer for the winter months.

 

Not suprising really - any business model with factor in failures. I bet the failures are sub 1% yet the internet can easily over hype the truth.

 

On one xbox forum, they have done a poll

So far 14% of XBOX 360's in users on that forum have a defective one

 

or is that 14% of Xbox 360's have a defective user

 

Also note that people are more likely to visit those forums if they have a problem, so that will skew the results a great deal.