{"id":511,"date":"2005-11-26T21:33:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T02:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=511"},"modified":"2005-11-26T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T02:33:54","slug":"xbox-360-why-it-isnt-worth-it-to-be-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"XBox 360: Why it isn&#8217;t worth it to be the first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/EB67E5CD-DAC7-4042-AD2D-AF5010D5531D\/0\/SBGwhyBuy.jpg\" alt=\"xbox 360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, you camped out overnight in freezing winter weather at the store just prior to opening.  You dashed through the doors, pushing and shoving, fighting tooth and nail, and paying an exhorbitant amount of cash to be the first to the get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/\">Xbox 360<\/a>.  Was it worth it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, some users are finding out that it certainly wasn&#8217;t.  Early production models of the Xbox 360 are exhibiting a defect in which the power supply overheats, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2002647279_xbox26.html\">causing the device to freeze after approximately 20 minutes of gameplay<\/a>.  Microsoft insists the problem occurs in only &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-0511260103nov26,1,4196304.story?coll=chi-business-hed\">a small fraction<\/a>&#8221; of units sold, but some web sites have a user base reporting a failure rate as high as 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Some users have found a solution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=27930\">suspend the power supply<\/a> in mid air using ropes or string, to allow air to flow around it and cool the unit down.  As it&#8217;s alleged Microsoft has deliberately kept the XBox 360 <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/10\/07\/commentary\/game_over\/column_gaming\/\">in short supply<\/a>, replacements of defective units might not come for quite a while, making this (or perhaps a nice, loud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00018MSO2\/102-6011639-7026526?v=glance&#038;n=284507&#038;v=glance\">Vornado<\/a>) the only practical solution for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XBox 260 owners are learning why it isn&#8217;t always the best thing to have the newest toy first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}