Crashing Xbox Kiosks

quannump writes "Gaming Age has an article up about some stores, including Toys R Us and Babbages, Xbox kiosk crashing at various places across the country. "Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units," says one Babbage's employee." It's funny because it's Microsoft. Get it? It's... oh never mind. Is DOA3 still planned as x-box only?

DOA3

[argonaut]

I believe it is for X-Box only, according to the local "Software, Etc." employees. BTW, their kiosk is working (for now).

A gamer's point of view...

[bflong]

Wow! I've never seen *this* level before!
I must have fallen into some opaque blue liquid.
I hope I can swim to the top before I drown...

Interesting Picture

[guru_steve]

Found this interesting picture [hardocp.com] of a screenshot from an XBox console having problems loading a file.

Don't know if it's authentic though

could be worse

[Quasar1999]

Better the Xbox kiosk than a bank machine (I'm sure you've all seen the pictures)... or airport arrival/departure screens... or on ad billboards... or...

Have they tried...

[siegesama]

Taking out the Demo and blowing on it? Then they need to blow into the box itself before putting the demo back in. Then ya gotta hold down the reset button and sorta *tap tap tap* on the game, and it'll come on if you've got the "touch".

/FLASHBACK CONSOLE="NES"


oh, wait. What? Oh, XBox. Right.

Hello, XBox customer support, can I have your CC#

[Anonymous Coward]

Soon after, a screen appeared that said the Xbox needed customer service repair. The screen provided a list of customer service phone numbers to contact.

I wonder if they're charing $200 per incident?

Activation

[nexex]

Hmm, perhaps they have not completed the required product activation ala WinXP :)

so far . . .

[hawk]

>Out of five stores that have
>layable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units,"
>ays one Babbage's employee." It's funny because it's Microsoft. Get
>t? It's... oh never mind. Is DOA3 still planned as x-box only?

so far, DOA3 is only available at 3 of the 5 stores in the local area. After an hour or two, though, it's likely that DOA4 will arrive, with DOA5 applying by the end of the day . . .

:)

hawk

Re:new msoft strategy?

[Leif_Bloomquist]

My favorite Microsoft games are Minesweeper and Regedit.

Crashing an Xbox

[Magumbo]

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Thus spake Taco

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all.

It's funny because it's Microsoft.

A game of skill and strategy!

[Mustang Matt]

Interpret the BSOD - Coming soon to video game stores near you!

Publisher: Microsoft 2001
Retail: $79.95/year license
EULA: You agree to the terms inside the package by opening the package.

XBox Green Screen of Death

[GoofyBoy]

http://www.evilavatar.com/EA/News/M34018/ [evilavatar.com]

If that doesn't work try;

http://www.evilavatar.com/EA/News/M34018/6983.jpg [evilavatar.com]

Re:Its down to the hardware.

[night_flyer]

weeks huh?

Im typing on a PC runnning windows 98SE that hasnt been rebooted in 2 months...

I also run a BBS on windows 98SE that, with the exception of the voluntary reboots, hasnt crashed on me since I built it in May

Re:Wow

[Jburkholder]

"Microsoft technical support... can I help you?"

"Um, yeah. I was, like um, playing this game... and, uh, it like totally froze one me in the middle of a level? And then, like the screen turned all blue and junk, and all these really freaky little numbers and letters came up? And dude, it like totally SUCKS because I was RIGHT in the middle of a totally awesome part of this game, right?"

"Ok sir, can I please please have your CC # which will be billed $30 for this incident?"

"wha?"

"I need you credit card before I can issue a trouble ticket for this incident."

"...but it like totally crapped out on me, dude! I'm not gonna pay $30 bucks just to TALK to you?!"

"Sir, if Microsoft can determine that the fault does not lie on you end, you will be refunded your technical support incident fee."

"&*(%$# you #@&*$% " (click)

Re:Probably overheating

[blang]

It's part of a secret plan by microsoft to sell more windows licences. The xbox will burn down your house. Each house has 2-3 windows boxes, and unless you've kept your retail bought MS software in a bank box, they'll need to be bought again. Look forward for brisk MS business after the holidays.

Re:A gamer's point of view...

[iapetus]

Joking aside, the crash screen for XBox isn't the BSOD - it's a stylish green-tinted display which has obviously had a lot of work put into it, almost as if they expected it to be seen quite a lot...

Bleed them Dry!

[zulux]

Ok... Lets assume you don't like Microsoft. Now buy an X-Box and take it to your local True-Value and ask the paint guy to stick the X-Box in the vibrating/shaking-paint-mixer-thing. The X-Box will now have a ruined hard-drive. Return the X-Box and repeat untill you see Bill Gates bumming quarters for sex in your local slum.

Re:Well I said it before

[Yankovic]

But nobody has a hobby that sucks most of the time. At least to them anyway.

You've obviously never played golf...

Re:A gamer's point of view...

[ekrout]

See my .sig for some funny wallpaper!

Re:PS2 killer?

[iapetus]

I hope there will be an X-box emulator for my PS2

Don't hold your breath. Emulating newer, more expensive hardware on older systems? If that were true, I'd be emulating my current PIII system on an old 286 rather than wasting the money upgrading.

Re:Heat is the likely culprit

[Mekanix]

nono... they'd start blaming the user for not applying the hourly patch, lobbying to make it illegal to share how to prevent triggering those bugs and lastly demand that any X-box producers be called terrorists....

Re:Probably overheating

[cloudmaster]

Either they fix 'em as they go bad (and with piss poor ventalation and kiddies manhandling 'em they're going to go bad quicker than normal) and eat a lot of $$$, or they don't fix 'em and piss off a lot of customers.

Hmm, will MS take the cash hit, or piss off consumers with low quality service. If only they had set an earlier precedent so we could infer how they'd behave now...

Re:Not a Microsoft Problem.

[raresilk]

"You put your PS on top of it, and it blows up?"

That'll certainly help boost X-box sales. Are you sure Microsoft didn't invent this gadget? Blowing up a competitor's hardware would be very consistent with their other business practices.

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Re:Bleed them Dry!

[Winged Cat]

Lets assume you don't like Microsoft.

And let's assume you're a typical Slashdot reader. But I repeat myself.

goto: www.microsoft.com/xbox

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

What you need to do to clear this up is goto www.microsoft.com/xbox and download the newest Service Pack (sp1) for the Xbox. This should clear everything up for you. We will be releasing some Hotpatches in the next couple of days as our beta testers get thier hands on the games. I am sorry I ment to say our customers get thier hands on the game. We will not be changing the release date we will just include the SP1 cd with the release.

Enjoy.

Yes, Indeed!

[dbretton]

It even took the Gates family three tries:

William H Gates III

-D

Re:Xbox Crash

[slashdot2.2sucks]

True story:

3 kids walk into the Toys R Us R-zone chanting the mantra "X-box rules".

They walk up to the kiosk and play Munch's Oddysee.

The next thing you hear is "X-box is gay"

Crashed on me!

[kruczkowski]

I have to tell you all, I was playing this and thank God it crashed... I don't know if you all know about this new ActiveDeath [bbspot.com] technology.

Also don't forget that you can preorder units now [bbspot.com]