great XBoxes of fire!

snemmy

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050217/D88ADUM80.html

thought this might affect a lot of people here

Mark Dygert

ouch...

ElysiumGX

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Peter Moore, a corporate vice president, said the company has known about the problem for some time and spent the past several months gearing up for the recall by producing more cords and making other arrangements.

Xbox users should turn off their game players when not in use, Microsoft said.

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HAHA!

So PS2 breaks too easily, and Xbox catches on fire. Gamecube is clearly the winner here.

Mishra

gamecubes are very durable, i accidentally dropped mine down a flight of stairs on the way home and it still worked like a charm

ive never heard of an xbox catching fire though, ps2s breaking ive often heard

ElysiumGX

I think there was a techtv segment where some girl smashed up each system in many different ways. The PS2 cd tray cover is always the first to go. I don't think it's fastened or glued on at all. She dropped them from several feet, and played sledgehammer golf, and the Gamecube still worked like a charm.

sonic

ive modded hundreds of xboxes, and have been around the xbox scene for years, and i haven't once heard of this...

AstroZombie

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Customers can order a free replacement cord by going to www.xbox.com

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Anyone see anywhere on there that you could order a free replacement cord? I'm either missing it or it isn't there.

sonic

front page, on the right

cep

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/news/0502/powercordannouncement.htm

Slayerjerman

Seriously..Back when i was lead on testing some Xbox titles, it got so hot in the office we were in (about ~110f) all our Xboxs went on the fritz and we all went home cause none of our equipment (PCs included) would work. And all of the crash bugs from that day were closed due to hardware malfunctions.

Turns out we actually did damage quite a few pieces of hardware that day! hehe

The3DGuy

w00t! just missed it, mine was made on 10-31-2003!