Post by trog @ 10:48am 27/01/06 | 41 Comments
Microsoft have announced that the Australian Xbox 360 launch has been delayed, confirming some rumours that have been floating around:
Xbox today announced a new launch date in Australia and New Zealand for the Xbox 360. The new launch date is 12:01am on March 23 2006.The official press release is available. Bad news for Aussies!
The new launch dates have been set due to unprecedented global consumer demand stemming from challenges in ramping supply for a complex product like the Xbox 360. This is a short term manufacturing challenge and steps have been taken to increase supply to provide adequate supplies at launch.
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Posted 10:51am 27/1/06
Posted 10:59am 27/1/06
Posted 10:59am 27/1/06
Posted 11:03am 27/1/06
we went for the extra pack too fpot, but 800 bucks all up makes me sad in the pants :(
Posted 11:20am 27/1/06
Posted 11:21am 27/1/06
Posted 11:31am 27/1/06
I'll play you at Perfect Dark on launch day :D
Posted 11:35am 27/1/06
I'm just not a console fan these days...
PC4TW KTHXBY
=)
Posted 11:40am 27/1/06
Posted 12:41pm 27/1/06
3 weeks delay...boo hoo!
Posted 01:01pm 27/1/06
Were you play it through a standard res or hi res screen? on a standard tv with RCA, i'd imagine it'd look s*** but ive seen photo's of a 360 plugged into a 24" Dell Monitor and it looked pretty damn good to me.
Posted 01:05pm 27/1/06
Posted 01:10pm 27/1/06
Posted 01:37pm 27/1/06
PC < 360
When Microsoft even sells the USB 360 controller for $35 everywhere, why not just buy 1 of those and hook it up to a pc and play COD2 like that....not that'd i'd want to i hate the controllers aswell...
anyway sorry again, here's a tissue
Posted 01:42pm 27/1/06
Ah well, its just like every console, some will love it some will hate it, If you're not a console fan than I doubt it'll convert you. Personally, I can't wait :D Not that I can afford my own, but my brother already has one pre-ordered, so at the very least I'll get to play it when hes not around :P
Posted 01:48pm 27/1/06
Anyway just to explain how i have played the 360 on tonnes of different setups since it came out last november, the company i work for has contracts with the largest electronics stores in north america, mainly Best Buy & Futureshop and the work i do gets me flown all around the place and when doing my work instore, when i get bored or have to wait for another contractor i play the 360...so i've played it on up to 2 different display setups per store...and i've been in a fair few stores since Nov 05.....anyway like i said, i care not if you believe me or not you're obviously upset that i bad mouthed your future girlfriend.
cheers
Posted 02:06pm 27/1/06
Posted 02:07pm 27/1/06
I've never seen the point in comparing consoles to PCs anyway, its like comparing watching movies at the cinema to watching them at home on DVD. Both mediums have their advantages, both have their disadvantages, and theres room in the world to enjoy both, without having to make a choice between one or the other; the two are not mutually exclusive. I think you'll find (at least on this forum) that a lot of the console fans have PCs anyway, and when buying a console they aren't looking for a new cutting edge PC, they're looking for a new cutting edge console. If we wanted new cutting edge PCs, we'd go buy new cutting edge PCs.
Posted 02:22pm 27/1/06
I think I'll let my own judgement prevail over yours, cheers.
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Posted 02:29pm 27/1/06
They are trying to sell the units so obviously they want them to look their best...in fact everything connected in the stores is with Monster, even coming down to the monster power surge protectors that are up to $500 each...
and Khel...I guess i just expected alot more out of the 360....I thought the xbox was great when it was first released however the 360 just hasn't impressed me.
Posted 02:33pm 27/1/06
Posted 02:37pm 27/1/06
Still, even if PGR3 was the only exclusive launch title, it'd still be enough for me, there is no emoticon that could truly express the love I had for PGR2.
Posted 02:40pm 27/1/06
I dont think plasmas would be any good anyway as I reckon they all suck at the mo, havent seen one that even comes close to the picture quality on this CRT HDTV.
Posted 02:43pm 27/1/06
Posted 03:22pm 27/1/06
Posted 03:22pm 27/1/06
Psycho, as for your hdtv crt tv it should be pretty sweet for the 360...I've found the image quality very nice on them and for a sweet price. Can't say i can recall using a sony with the game video mode but then i don't mess with the tvs that much when they are setup and working properly.
Anyway i'm going down the pub....Australia Day here and also Wet T Shirt night down the local....giggedy giggedy giggedy
cheers
Posted 03:58pm 27/1/06
pc gaming 4tw!
Posted 04:08pm 27/1/06
i bought one from harvey norman a few weeks ago and its good for platforming sorta games on pc. just you need to get the XBCD drivers as the microsoft ones suck.
since ms is pushing it as a standard and vista will allow 3 full axes of motion to work properly, finally pc games will be decent with these types of games which are better to play with a controller.
i also recently bought a HDTV, but may save up a bit more and get the 360 after i get a Nrev :)
Posted 04:28pm 27/1/06
Posted 04:49pm 27/1/06
Posted 04:56pm 27/1/06
Posted 05:10pm 27/1/06
F***, did you think of that all by yourself or did you read it on a christmas bonbon.
Posted 06:01pm 27/1/06
Posted 09:04pm 27/1/06
Although for me it was not, i did however leave my girlfriend but she was just a b****. Seriously, wait till it comes out there and make your own judgement... but don't give me s*** just cause i've played a 360 and thought it wasn't that much and posted my honest opinion on here.
My advice to those that do buy a 360: Don't be cheap, spend the extra $100 and do it right, make sure you have a good display and sound system and above all... don't listen to anyone on a forum, if you want something that bad and you get it, and it is all that you wanted, it makes it that much more better, so enjoy!
ps...only 4 girls voluntered for wet tshirt when they needed 6....so 1st place got $500, 2nd place got $200, 3rd place got $100 and 1 sorry girl went home with a soaking wet white t shirt....good night in all, and lets not forget how orsom our country is....rock on Australia.
cheers
Posted 10:03pm 27/1/06
The xbox 360 controls have been for sale at harvey norman for a couple months for 60$. rumble isnt really supported yet as they use Xinput instead of DirectX. but companies are going to put more compatibilty with it, I think Ubisoft is starting it off
xbcd drivers are the ones that some guy wrote so you could use Xbox 1 control on pc (modded with usb cable of course), but they have been modified again for 360 controller use, as MS drivers have no deadzone setting for the analog or anything..
from what ive read though, a limitation of windows xp is support of 3 analog style axes, so you can use the dual analog, but the triggers arent dual analog for like acceleration in PGR or whatever...so if you want to play NFS:MW or something on pc, it acts like digital buttons :(
vista *should* solve the problem :S
Posted 10:20pm 27/1/06
I'm kind of in a mixed state about the 360, it looks shiny and it's like a sleek white box of glory power compared to our old PC. On the other hand, I'm not really into the xbox scene. Viva la revolution.
Posted 03:31pm 28/1/06
Posted 01:12am 29/1/06
~I swear
...apparently
Posted 06:34pm 31/1/06
How can you complain bout jaggies on a tv that is 640x480 or 800x600 at best.
Man, even the ps2's sub-par graphics are good enough for me to play them without thinking "man this looks s***".
Although I'd prefer high-end PC with all the bells and whistles, as people have said, consoles are a totally different thing.
Either way, not many games are able to entertain me for more than an hour these days anyway, so they're both useless until something decent comes out.
He's had that as his sig for awhile.
We all know what it originated from.
Who gives a s***, spilt milk baby, yeah.
last edited by Loki at 18:34:55 31/Jan/06