I got a 360! **** yeah!

[CptStern]

*me tells sterns wife

HAHA! now she knows! and now she told me to tell you to buy me an Xbox 360

fool!! you should have threatened to tell my wife, now that the cat is out of the bag I'm a dead man anyways ...and you have no xbox360

 

[Kamikazie]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO /vader

...well...i'll tell her to hold off until you meet my demands!

MUHAHAHAHA!

 

[CptStern]

pfft, I'm moving to mexico start a new life as Pepe the Burro salesmen ...till my wife eventually finds me

 

[Glirk Dient]

I got one. I also am very sick now.

At about 10 last night my dad called me and told me there were about 50 people outside most of the best buys, walmarts and everywhere else. I wasn't expecting Minnesotans to actually want to wait outside for this. Oh well...I am a n Eagle Scout so a little cold isn't gonna stop me. We found a target that didn't have a very long line. In fact there were only 7 people at 10 when I got there. They were getting 8 of each kind, so I was lucky and took the last of the expensive ones. I brought my tent, day pack full of stuff, air matress, mat and plenty of other junk to keep me warm. It was well below freezing and it was supposed to have 30 mi/h winds and snow. Thankfully it didn't snow but it was still hella cold out.

I wasn't able to sleep due to the insnae cold and I already had a pretty bad cold when I got there. I just layed there until about 2am when I was able to start to get some sleep. I think I woke up about every 5 mins to move because my nose/arm kept freezing so I would have to switch.

At about 5 am my dad came to pick all the crap up. He was heading to a funeral so he had to get up early and took everything but my day pack. So for the last 3 hours I stood outside in the cold and pretty soon my feet and legs went numb so I couldn't feel them. There were a few people who were pretty concerned about their feet because none of us could feel them anymore and didn't want frostbite. Thankfully me being a scout I knew various methods of warming up besides just standing there and covering up.

At around 7 and until they opened there were around a hundred parents that came and tried to get xbox's. We would tell them that they handed tickets out a quarter till 8 and they were all taken. Some people didn't believe us so they called the store as if they could get an xbox as they open when most of us camped the night. Idiots. At other locations where they handed tickets out(less than 1/4 of a mile even) there were fist fights over the tickets in the parking lot. Apparently that happened at most every place in the area where they handed out tickets a few hours ahead.

At 8 they finally let us in and they had 2 lines. 1 for those with the $400 ticket and the $300. I waited at the end of the $400 and was hoping they didn't run out of wireless controllers because I needed at least 1 to play co-op with my bro and they only had 2. Thankfully by the time I got up there they still had 1 left so I nabbed that and payed almost $500 worth of gaming fun.

I got home and took a hot shower then hooked it up. I played the first few levels of PDZ and then got really really tired as I haven't slept in over 24 hours and on top of that the cold I had before was now much much worse so now I feel like shit as im writing this. Hopefully if I can down enough water it won't be so bad so I can continue playing instead of sleeping and feeling like crap.

 

[CptStern]

well I hope you thanked your dad, not just for buying it for you but also for letting you stay up late to get it

 

[OCybrManO]

<insert 360 war story here>

That's either EXTREME™ or pathetic... or extremely pathetic.

 

[Asuka]

I bought two!

690 each.

Best Buy premium Bundle.

 

[Fliko]

I bought two!

690 each.

Best Buy premium Bundle.

Sending address over PM! GIMME! :sniper:

 

[Prince of China]

It's too expensive. Maybe if it was $299.99 CDN. But I want it so bad. I hope the Playstation 3 won't be as expensive.

 

[Bait]

Patience ftw.

 

[OCybrManO]

I hope the Playstation 3 won't be as expensive.

It's also in the $300-400 range.

 

[VirusType2]

It's also in the $300-400 range.

I will be surprized if it is that cheap but thats what Sony claims. You got to remember they are selling it as a HD movie player, and they reportedly plan to sell home Blu Ray players for about $800-1000 USD, so they are targeting Daddy.

HD DVD players will come out first--before Blu Ray hits the market, and they are going to be much cheaper.

Between Sony and Microsoft, I think Sony may try to match the 360 and Microsoft will either keep their price steady or immediately lower their price. something I don't think Sony will do. They are already going to take a loss on every system.

The 360 is just a DVD player, where the PS3 is a HD movie player. They are going to use the PS3 to get a Blu Ray DVD[BD]disc players and PS3's in as many houses as they can, to get a foot-hold.

 

[P43.2/1Gig/X800P]

I got one Too waited 14 hours in line.

 

[GhostBoi]

I didn't get one. I waited 0 hours in line instead I'll wait until one of my friends gets one and play that while waiting for revolution to come out, oh and Mario Kart DS.

 

[DarkStar]

Check out this 360 commercial that got yanked off the air:

http://www.adjab.com/files/2005/11/xboxstandoff.wmv

 

[destrukt]

^ hah, was going to post that, it's soo awesome.

 

[Zeus]

so there I was in best buy ready to buy an xbox 360...it was the last one. The guy behind me got angry and started threatning and pushing me. So when I got my system he tried to fight me and we wrestled to the ground...soon enough there were 10 soccar moms trying to steal the 360..I got out of the pile and did a matrix jump through the window climing along the side of the building before I jumped on my escape helicopter that was conviently placed outside.


the preceding was entirely false

 

[The Mullinator]

so there I was in best buy ready to buy an xbox 360...it was the last one. The guy behind me got angry and started threatning and pushing me. So when I got my system he tried to fight me and we wrestled to the ground...soon enough there were 10 soccar moms trying to steal the 360..I got out of the pile and did a matrix jump through the window climing along the side of the building before I jumped on my escape helicopter that was conviently placed outside.


the preceding was entirely false

Too bad because aside from the matrix jump and the helicopter it could have been believable.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I got it

 

[Dodo]

I'm waiting for the PS3, just for Metal Gear Solid 4. As for the 360, it doesn't have enough exclusive games. I already have CoD2 on my PC, which rocks.

metal gear solid rox ! getting one for just mgs4 to

-dodo

 

[3ssence]

I'm in england, so we don't actually get them until the 2nd of december anyway. I have mine on pre-order with amazon, and although it is not guaranteed to arrive on the release date, it is at least guaranteed to arrive before christmas. Although i can't say i won't get a little impatient.

 

[Unfocused]

I'm still curious what's wrong with the topic maker's XBox360.

 

[h00dlum]

So does Paris.. :x

 

[VictimOfScience]

I will be surprized if it is that cheap but thats what Sony claims. You got to remember they are selling it as a HD movie player, and they reportedly plan to sell home Blu Ray players for about $800-1000 USD, so they are targeting Daddy.

Yeah, but most people in the gaming industry (including Sony themselves) are acknowledging that Sony will sell the PS3 at a price right around $400 USD. They are well aware of the fact that standalone players will be much pricier and so they are banking on PS3 sales to get the installed Bluray base up so that everyone adopts it as the new HD standard.

HD DVD players will come out first--before Blu Ray hits the market, and they are going to be much cheaper.

Um, standalone players and recorders of both formats are going to be very expensive when they first hit the market. Sony's first Bluray recorder had an MSRP of $3800 USD in Japan in 2003! Source. I would wager that they are cheaper than that now and that HD-DVD recorders will be very expensive also upon launch. Players from both camps will undoubtedly be cheaper as well.

Between Sony and Microsoft, I think Sony may try to match the 360 and Microsoft will either keep their price steady or immediately lower their price. something I don't think Sony will do. They are already going to take a loss on every system.

And as everyone and their mother already knows, console makers always sell their system for a loss for the first few years. Then the cost of the technology goes down as market saturation increases/manufacturing costs decrease and they can start to turn a hardware profit. Software licenses are the real money-makers from the get-go.

I am still convinced that it was a mistake for MS to release a next-gen console with current-gen storage media. The lack of an HD-DVD drive might really hurt them, especially if HD-DVD is the new standard. FTM FTL. :-\

 

[Adidajs]

So does Paris.. :x

i find it amazing that the richer and more famous you become, the more free shit you get. she's an heiress to the hilton fortune, she doesn't need free schwag.

anyways, i'm curious why they pass that stuff out anyway. is that the only reason they get people to show up?

 

[CptStern]

ya I was reading an article about the gifts actors received just for showing up for the Toronto Film Festival to promote their movies ..I think each loot bag amounted to about $3000 each and included items like a top of the line ipods, cameras, designer purses, $400 bottles of champage, caviar etc ...no wonder movies cost $13.50 (at a giant silver mega-plex theater)

 

[Last One In]

I'm still curious what's wrong with the topic maker's XBox360.

Nothing, im just goona sell it on ebay and turn a $500.oo profit.

 

[Kamikazie]

or you could give it to me for a few years...until the next Xbox comes out :E

 

[h00dlum]

i find it amazing that the richer and more famous you become, the more free shit you get. she's an heiress to the hilton fortune, she doesn't need free schwag.

anyways, i'm curious why they pass that stuff out anyway. is that the only reason they get people to show up?

They give celeberties free shit because if they are seen wearing a certain shirt or using a certain item some idiots go and buy them just cuz their idol is using it.
In other words free publicity\comercials..

 

[CptStern]

Nothing, im just goona sell it on ebay and turn a $500.oo profit.

$500? ...hmph, chump change ...bids were as high as $4000 ..for about $2000 you could buy 4 sell them on ebay and make a whopping $14,000 ...pretty freakin good mark up

 

[bvasgm]

or you could give it to me for a few years...until the next Xbox comes out :E

That actually raises an interesting question. What are they going to call the Xbox 3? The Xbox 480?

 

[destrukt]

right now, the executives (not only those of the xbox division, but of other departments) are thinking (and have said at one point, but i can't find my reference) that this is pretty much the last console they will do, and are going to continue with the shift back to pc gaming.

 

[P43.2/1Gig/X800P]

I waited in line at a best buy for 16 hours!!!!! i was the 10th person in line. There were about 150 people in line and the Best buy only had 45 units LOL there was some pissed of people.HAHAHAHA

Let me tell it's pretty sweet system, im playing condemed right now and its by far the scariest game i've ever played.

 

[Sparta]

ya I was reading an article about the gifts actors received just for showing up for the Toronto Film Festival to promote their movies ..I think each loot bag amounted to about $3000 each and included items like a top of the line ipods, cameras, designer purses, $400 bottles of champage, caviar etc ...no wonder movies cost $13.50 (at a giant silver mega-plex theater)

Apparently some of the gift bags at the Oscars are worth up to $30,000!

 

[Dalamari]

I got one. I also am very sick now.

At about 10 last night my dad called me and told me there were about 50 people outside most of the best buys, walmarts and everywhere else. I wasn't expecting Minnesotans to actually want to wait outside for this. Oh well...I am a n Eagle Scout so a little cold isn't gonna stop me. We found a target that didn't have a very long line. In fact there were only 7 people at 10 when I got there. They were getting 8 of each kind, so I was lucky and took the last of the expensive ones. I brought my tent, day pack full of stuff, air matress, mat and plenty of other junk to keep me warm. It was well below freezing and it was supposed to have 30 mi/h winds and snow. Thankfully it didn't snow but it was still hella cold out.

I wasn't able to sleep due to the insnae cold and I already had a pretty bad cold when I got there. I just layed there until about 2am when I was able to start to get some sleep. I think I woke up about every 5 mins to move because my nose/arm kept freezing so I would have to switch.

At about 5 am my dad came to pick all the crap up. He was heading to a funeral so he had to get up early and took everything but my day pack. So for the last 3 hours I stood outside in the cold and pretty soon my feet and legs went numb so I couldn't feel them. There were a few people who were pretty concerned about their feet because none of us could feel them anymore and didn't want frostbite. Thankfully me being a scout I knew various methods of warming up besides just standing there and covering up.

At around 7 and until they opened there were around a hundred parents that came and tried to get xbox's. We would tell them that they handed tickets out a quarter till 8 and they were all taken. Some people didn't believe us so they called the store as if they could get an xbox as they open when most of us camped the night. Idiots. At other locations where they handed tickets out(less than 1/4 of a mile even) there were fist fights over the tickets in the parking lot. Apparently that happened at most every place in the area where they handed out tickets a few hours ahead.

At 8 they finally let us in and they had 2 lines. 1 for those with the $400 ticket and the $300. I waited at the end of the $400 and was hoping they didn't run out of wireless controllers because I needed at least 1 to play co-op with my bro and they only had 2. Thankfully by the time I got up there they still had 1 left so I nabbed that and payed almost $500 worth of gaming fun.

I got home and took a hot shower then hooked it up. I played the first few levels of PDZ and then got really really tired as I haven't slept in over 24 hours and on top of that the cold I had before was now much much worse so now I feel like shit as im writing this. Hopefully if I can down enough water it won't be so bad so I can continue playing instead of sleeping and feeling like crap.

You better free up your schedule so I can come and play it ffs :cheers:

 

[Asuka]

Check out this 360 commercial that got yanked off the air:

http://www.adjab.com/files/2005/11/xboxstandoff.wmv

LMFAO!

 

[satch919]

I got mine and I'm impressed. I'm glad I preordered mine back in July! So far, it has exceeded my expectations! Here's some pics.

 

[Prince of China]

I got mine and I'm impressed. I'm glad I preordered mine back in July! So far, it has exceeded my expectations! Here's some pics.

Your setup looks really nice! :thumbs:

 

[satch919]

Your setup looks really nice! :thumbs:

Thanks! I've spent quite a lot of money on it thus far. It's been worth it.

 

[Last One In]

What kind of TV do you have?