Teen gets xbox 360 before everybody else.

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Teen gets xbox 360 before everybody else.

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Picture the scene; this kid’s dad comes home from his first day working at Microsoft’s next-gen console lab with a big brown box. The kid rips open the box, takes out next-gen console and gets his friend to take pictures of him playing with it. That’s exactly what happened when the son of a Microsoft ‘Regulatory Compliance Manager’ (which I’m guessing has something to do with checking the 360 doesn’t blow up when you plug it in) found out his dad had a Xbox 360 dev/test kit. He posted an image of his smiling face playing with the Xbox on the Gamespot forums, conveniently forgetting his dad’s non-disclosure agreement. Apart from this interesting story the kid also disclosed that that console has a massive external power supply, obviously to keep the actual console size in check. Hopefully his dad isn’t too hard on the kid when the Microsoft heavies turn up at their door.
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Mockup. The shadow projected by the system on the last picture looks Photoshop-ed.
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Actually I believe it's one of those types of carpets which change with movement..
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you naive-lings.

This is all in the Microsoft Marketing strategy.
His father knew there was a big chance this would happen.
I will start believing again when I see a screen shot of that kid with a disappointed look on his face and a blue screen of death in the background :lol:
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From the headline, I was expecting a link to The Onion. :/
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Post by GaijinPunch »

Old news
http://69.44.156.177/forums/showthread.php?t=5879

There's a story in that thread somewhere if you read it.
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I'll see that old news and raise you a welcome to last week. His face wasn't blocked out when the pics showed up on GAF.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Old news
07-18-2005, 11:05 AM
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Real, fake, who cares. I'm not the one in the picture, so what does it do for me :)
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That's a cool looking controller.
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Post by UnscathedFlyingObject »

Isn't XB360 compatible with HDTV's only? That TV doesn't scream HDTV to me.
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UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:Isn't XB360 compatible with HDTV's only?
I believe that is no longer the case, as there is not enough people with HDTV's.
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