http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/ Engadget Comments for Xbox 360 Elite to hit Japan in October... for $390 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
JA]]>Jul 5th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 6th 2007 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
Does anyone else feel just a LITTLE pissed off by that?]]>Jul 6th 2007 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/till then i´ll keep watching the video teaser LOL!!
http://www.weshow.com/us/videos/channel/show.action?channel=217
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A Best Buy associate who chose to remain anonymous claimed that the failure rate of the Microsoft Xbox 360 was in the ballpark of “between a quarter to a third” of the systems sold.

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Relying upon one ***former*** employee for stats (did he do a complete statistical analysis of return rates?) is very similar to what I wrote above. I remember somebody making a post to an engadget like site (it could have been Engadget, but I am not sure) saying that he walked into a Circuit City two days after the 360 release, and said that he counted X number of people returning their 360, and there were X+5 total 360s sold at that store on release day (where X was around 30), all because of problems. First, the odds of all those people being there at the same exact time, on the same exact day, all having problems made it, obviously, unbelievable - 86% of all people there at the same time returning their 360? This seems like the same thing, some random employee knows the stats of all returns for the entire chain? Second, why is this a ***former*** employee? If we are just going to throw out what seems like made up evidence, I say that this employee left all the 360s out in the rain, then dropped them off the truck, kicked them a bit, and then pissed all over them. When they were sold, they came back because they no longer worked. He was caught doing this, and was fired. With the "It can't be my fault, it has to be somebody else" attitude that many people have, he just blamed the 360s, not him. Or maybe, just maybe, he is a PS3 fanboy that is making up numbers so that his favorite console wins. And while we are making stuff up, maybe it is a Sony employee that said that to try and sell at least a few PS3s.

The result is, if you believe everything you read on the internet simply because somebody wrote it without any proof whatsoever, and without being able to challenge the person making the claim, I am selling the domain name www.google.com. And cheap, contact me if you are willing to buy.]]>Jul 5th 2007 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7892
http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retailers_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html

I hope this time I will not get a MS employee asking me for further proof ;-)

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--Craig]]>Jul 5th 2007 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 6th 2007 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 6th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
I would guess it's more that the Japanese public doesn't like the game selection on the 360. That and the fact that the 360's reliability issues were already public knowledge at the time of the Japanese launch.]]>Jul 5th 2007 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
ive simply been trying to find a normal one that doesn't break after 3 months]]>Jul 5th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/
:P]]>Jul 5th 2007 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/That was embarrassing.]]>Jul 5th 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/xbox-360-elite-to-hit-japan-in-october-for-390/Jul 5th 2007 11:36PM