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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4490778.stm

i thought this was worth posting

A nine-hour queue in the cold and wet is just the thing to bring out the British spirit - where else can you make 100 new friends, and then beat the hell out of them.

i hope the 6 people that were able to get it have fun playing it.

I'd have loved to have gone to Asda and just bought all 4 that they had in. Be fucked am I queuing for a console though. The last thing I queued more than an hour for was to get into a student union party. Fucking great it was too, getting pissed at 11am is always win.

My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

phantasmagoria wrote:My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

How many can he reserve?

they wouldn't let him reserve more than one.

'three custom IBM 3.2GHz core processors ' so the 360 is actually
running at 9.6 ghz?

Amazes me that people will queue up from 3pm to midnight for a fucking console instead of biding their time until it's been out a while and then just go into a shop anytime and buy one. It's not like there aren't enough games to play on a pc or that buying pcs are that expensive these days.

Some friends and myself were messing around on a 360 in PC world and Game etc.

Not that impressive imo...But it may evolve into something better in the next few months.

DRuM wrote:'three custom IBM 3.2GHz core processors ' so the 360 is actually
running at 9.6 ghz?

Amazes me that people will queue up from 3pm to midnight for a fucking console instead of biding their time until it's been out a while and then just go into a shop anytime and buy one. It's not like there aren't enough games to play on a pc or that buying pcs are that expensive these days.

i dont think you can just add it up like that.

also you cant just go into a store and buy one anytime. i think you can only do that if you pre-ordered way, way, way in advance. even people who preordered weren't guaranteed to get one even thought they thought they would. stores just didnt get as many boxes as they expected.

and thats only for pre-order places. if you want to go into any old shop and get one, theres no chance. you have to wait in line from the beginning.

i do agree that there are other games out there to place though.

edit: missed the part where you said after its been out for a while. doh.

phantasmagoria wrote:My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

i'd like to see proof of a %20 discount. afaik, no retailer's employees got ANY discount. why should they when MS is already losing money on it?

its his imaginary mate

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

phantasmagoria wrote:My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

i'd like to see proof of a %20 discount. afaik, no retailer's employees got ANY discount. why should they when MS is already losing money on it?

I only got 10% on the console (£28) and 30% on the games (£15 ish, depending on price).

So i got mine cheaper. But my 360 stutters on videos for some reason. Games play fine but videos stutter like fuck...

there were 5000 shipped to dutcholand. the last one was sold at 10.30 am
absurd

o'dium wrote:

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

phantasmagoria wrote:My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

i'd like to see proof of a %20 discount. afaik, no retailer's employees got ANY discount. why should they when MS is already losing money on it?

I only got 10% on the console (£28) and 30% on the games (£15 ish, depending on price).

So i got mine cheaper. But my 360 stutters on videos for some reason. Games play fine but videos stutter like fuck...

hm. surprising on both accounts. thanks.

Blockbuster employees only get 5% discount on consoles & dvd players. 20% on everything else.

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+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

phantasmagoria wrote:My mate works in blockbuster, he's reserved one and he gets 20% discount off the marked price, he's now going to ebay it.

i'd like to see proof of a %20 discount. afaik, no retailer's employees got ANY discount. why should they when MS is already losing money on it?

Then maybe he didn't. Everything else he's bought from work has had 20% off, so naturally he assumed this would. I haven't spoken to him for a couple of days so I don't know if he's even got it yet.

And all the while Bill Gates is laughing whilst playing on his Xbox 720.

Seeing as most of the starting lineup either has framerate issues or is already available in a pretty similar version for xbox and ps2, I'm surprised anyone's getting excited.

Yeah that they pushed it out far too early solely for the christmas rush is quite obvious to see.

Blockbuster employees don't get any discounts on hardware at all. They get 10 free rentals a week, access to films (to watch) a week prior to release, and 20% off all purchases that aren't hardware.

Ryoki wrote:And all the while Bill Gates is laughing whilst playing on his Xbox 720.

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DRuM wrote:'three custom IBM 3.2GHz core processors ' so the 360 is actually
running at 9.6 ghz?

You can't add speeds up like that -- a much better way of thinking about it would be that each processor is a car running at a speed of 3.2GHz: they can do three times as much work, but at the same speed as a single car.

glossy wrote:

DRuM wrote:'three custom IBM 3.2GHz core processors ' so the 360 is actually
running at 9.6 ghz?

You can't add speeds up like that -- a much better way of thinking about it would be that each processor is a car running at a speed of 3.2GHz: they can do three times as much work, but at the same speed as a single car.

3.2GHz is not speed, its frequency.

Time taken to perform a unit of work.
Time taken to cover a unit of distance.

Speeds.

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