Japanese Xbox Woes

Microsoft\'s Xbox has been available on Japanese shelves for less than a week and already retailers have noticed an alarming number of defective product inquiries. So many in fact, Microsoft has launched a full-scale investigation into the situation. Thus far, the bulk of the customer complaints involve defective software. Microsoft is reportedly trying to determine whether the discs arrived defective, were damaged in transit, or if some consoles scratched the discs during normal use. As previously reported, Microsoft contracted several local firms to produce Xbox software for the Japanese market.


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Ouutchhh

Thanks for the news  Adan.  I hope they find out what happen.  

[GmanJoe]

My eeevil plans are working! :nerd: MWAHAHAHA!

I just happened to stumble upon the Japanese Xbox freight shipment last month at this dock in Seattle, Washington! So I peed all over the freight.

Of course, I didn\'t have enough supply of pee so I payed a bunch of homeless drunks to pee all over it with me. That was fun....good thing I wore boots and a rain coat. Drunks don\'t aim to well....even though they were aiming straight down. Some those sickos were peeing straight up! Perverts!

Anway....blame me. I did it.

I hear about this early yesterday from a friend.. but he had no link to proove it..

Maybe there are problems..
wow, sell like crap then work like crap.. poor M$

the same problem happened with the US dreamcast launch, remember?

sucks to be m$

PS2 had its share of launch problems.

>"PS2 had its share of launch problems."

 my favorite tactic of the xbox fanboy
saying something yet having nothing to back it up
care to be more specific?

Well here I go clown:

System shortages--well below promised shipment numbers.

The whole DVD/mem card fiasco that rendered the player useless

The DVD driver didn\'t really work that well in the first place

Discs scratching when system is vertical

Major graphical problems


Not exactly smooth, not anything really major, but problems nonetheless.  Happy you little fanboy?

I personally don\'t know any one who experienced any of these problems. The dvd-driver problems was only a problem in japan - or so I heard.
Anyway, those little problems didn\'t matter at all and PS2 is selling very well. The question is, can Microsoft (whos image obviously isn\'t too good in that department) afford such a thing?

And about the system shortages... can I count Xbox in too? And that world-wide launch? We here in europe are still pissed about that... or maybe not?! /jk

>"System shortages--well below promised shipment numbers."

LOL, I don\'t even need to comment, at least the systems *worked*

>"The whole DVD/mem card fiasco that rendered the player useless "

Wow, so they had to put the DVD driver disc into the system to reset the memory card driver.. big whoop, they

>"The DVD driver didn\'t really work that well in the first place"

Even funnier then the first comment, its 100% opinion
Often xbox fanboys resort to opinion as fact to try to make an argument

>"Discs scratching when system is vertical"
100% rumor and aparently not widespread

>"Major graphical problems"
LOL, 100% opinion
Often xbox fanboys resort to opinion as fact to try to make an argument


>"Not exactly smooth, not anything really major, but problems nonetheless. Happy you little fanboy?"

uhh.. I see no problems and only opinion

I thought beacuse it was launching in japan 2nd all the bugs would be worked out..
wait a sec, this *is* microsoft we are talking about... ROFL

It doesnt mean anything.....wow the x-box has a bug every system has atleast 2 bugs at the beggining. Ps2 had em havent heard of any GC bugs but im sure their out there. Same with the other systems. They\'ll get fixed and nobody will care.

[Living-In-Clip]

Common knowledge that the DVD drivers up until recently have been sh!t. Plenty of movies don\'t play on different PS2 versions. Not to mention the shortage of systems and memory cards. THen we also have people taking their PS2\'s back because it has scratched discs or quit reading disc. There has been plenty of complaints about it on this very board.

You can stay blind as long as you wish, Chrono. Its just simple fact about the PS2 having its nice amount of problems also.

Watchdog, I hate video game politics.  Thats why I say out of it.   It wast lots of time.

Chrono, if you don\'t listen to me, listen to other PS2 owners on this board--you are a cancer, and annoying growth that doesn\'t do anything of any worth.

You must have a small life and a sad existence to so doggedly deny any negative news about PS2 while standing up and cheering when anything negative happens to xbox.

What this says about a person is pretty obvious; I, myself, have strong interests in LIFE or should I say A LIFE.  Perhaps you should devote some of your attention into attaining one of your own.

I can tell you it\'s pretty cool.