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Maybe this should be posted in another area, but for now it'll do here. I have connected my XB360 to my PC to stream music, however I only seem to be able to access the Podcasts, can anyone help me get to me access the rest of the things in my iTunes?
 
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Right, you cannot listen to tunes through your XBox that you have downloaded from iTunes. It doesnt accept the format. Sly on MS's behalf, sorry to tell you that Holio.
 
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The XBOX 360 Core I ordered from Gameplay upon LemonJelly advising they had some left was due to arrive today. No package this morning, "oh well" I thought, "maybe it'll be Monday seeing as it's a weekend". ALL WEEK the pre-order status has read "will arrive 10th Dec 05", in-fact an hour after I'd ordered it at 3pm, there was a message saying people who'd ordered before 4pm would be getting theirs at the weekend. Checked the status five minutes ago and WOW!! It's changed to "could be after 24th Dec 05".

I feel like cancelling the fucking lot. What a complete farce. Still, I don't suppose million-dollar-Bill will be too worried, will he?
 
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P-dogg said:
Right, you cannot listen to tunes through your XBox that you have downloaded from iTunes. It doesnt accept the format. Sly on MS's behalf, sorry to tell you that Holio.
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Cheers lad, but the thing is I have very little music I have purchased from iTunes, most of my stuff iS CD's I've spent a dogs age putting on, also the podcasts are in iTunes, so why can I listen to them and not my music?
 
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Chris Davies said:
The XBOX 360 Core I ordered from Gameplay upon LemonJelly advising they had some left was due to arrive today. No package this morning, "oh well" I thought, "maybe it'll be Monday seeing as it's a weekend". ALL WEEK the pre-order status has read "will arrive 10th Dec 05", in-fact an hour after I'd ordered it at 3pm, there was a message saying people who'd ordered before 4pm would be getting theirs at the weekend. Checked the status five minutes ago and WOW!! It's changed to "could be after 24th Dec 05".

I feel like cancelling the fucking lot. What a complete farce. Still, I don't suppose million-dollar-Bill will be too worried, will he?
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Don't panic it's an automated display. If you ordered before 4pm you will get it, between Monday and Wednesday they had about 500 orders to ship out
 
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airjoca said:
Do you have a computer monitor?

Even if you don't i still say get it.
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i'll give it a go anyway, if it doesn't look too good i still can connect it to my monitor, you are right.

xbox 360 here i come...:D
 
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I downloaded Geometry Wars last night. Fookin ell its tough, I think my top score was around the 70,000 mark
 
 
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Yes the console hasn't had the same hype in Japan as it has everywhere else in the world, that was pretty much a given due to the lack of decent territory specific launch titles (DOA etc etc).

ThomasGOAL, we all know you hate the 360 and want it to fail so why do you insist of posting "no comment". Just come out and say what you feel, it will make you feel a lot better. Then we can all move on!
 
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haha taht "stand 360" and stand "ps2"...wtf, that's the gay video disc in there like it seems, i can fully understand them not watching it...lol.
 
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Expected... Dammit... I mean so many folks around here dying for a 360 and in japan they have tons of them. Good work M$ :lol:
 
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TG, you are a cocklord of the nth degree mate, and if you post anymore shite, albeit 'news' in your eyes; in this thread I will ban you mate. The 360 wasn't ever going to launch big in Japan, it was just MS wanted the Japanese public to think that this time they wouldnt be months behind the rest of the World.

The Japanese are probably the most loyal buying public in the world for products made by there own companies, except for Irish Whiskey or Scotch Whisky and maybe the very and I mean very odd Supercar. So TG, take this as a warning, DO NOT POST SHITE IN THIS THREAD. Thank you.
 
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Holio said:
TG, you are a cocklord of the nth degree mate, and if you post anymore shite, albeit 'news' in your eyes; in this thread I will ban you mate. The 360 wasn't ever going to launch big in Japan, it was just MS wanted the Japanese public to think that this time they wouldnt be months behind the rest of the World.

The Japanese are probably the most loyal buying public in the world for products made by there own companies, except for Irish Whiskey or Scotch Whisky and maybe the very and I mean very odd Supercar. So TG, take this as a warning, DO NOT POST SHITE IN THIS THREAD. Thank you.
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LOL, my post got deleted for insulting ThomasGoaT. And it was way tamer than yours. But just for the record I say "Whatever Holio said".
 
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bloody hell you guys are mean to thomas. I mean, he was being a tit at first with his comments but now he gets wasted for saying no comment! lol

regarding Japan, Im sure the machine will do well in the coming months. Everyones waiting for DOA4 and some RPG that I forgot the name of (ninety nine nights?). Once they get released watch the machine sell shit loads.

It obviously wont sell more than Sony or Nintendo, but im positive it'll do better than the original machine did and thats all Microsoft are aiming for this time around. They're not expecting miracles.

Im holding out for some new games though to re-buy the machine. Unfortunately the next wave of games wont come out until late Jan. Just hope Top Spin is mint on it.
 
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Well, if all goes well...

Ive just got an Xbox360 Core...Fifa, Condemened, King Kong, Tiger Woods and Need For Speed :MW ...a silver face plate AND an extra pad..

for £209.99

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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I see that the truth hurts, open your eyes MS fanboy :roll:
Xbox 360 don't work in Japan, and ? you work for Microsoft ???
it's just a confirmation about the love story of Xbox and Japan, that all.

Cocklord me ? and you with your politics of censored !
all users of Xbox 360 need to see the video of crash disk, it's a advertisement, but mister Holio delete it because ins't a good advertising for Microsoft, you work for Gates or what !!
 
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Adonis said:
how the hell you manage that???????????
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He ordered from the Currys website and the site fucked up letting him have all the extras for free leaving him only the core to pay for. Thats assuming he gets away with it and he recieves it before the end of Jan.
 
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RuneEdge said:
He ordered from the Currys website and the site fucked up letting him have all the extras for free leaving him only the core to pay for. Thats assuming he gets away with it and he recieves it before the end of Jan.
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I don't reckon thats gonna happen, but good luck all the same kev!
 
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ThomasGOAL said:
I see that the truth hurts, open your eyes MS fanboy :roll:
Xbox 360 don't work in Japan, and ? you work for Microsoft ???
it's just a confirmation about the love story of Xbox and Japan, that all.

Cocklord me ? and you with your politics of censored !
all users of Xbox 360 need to see the video of crash disk, it's a advertisement, but mister Holio delete it because ins't a good advertising for Microsoft, you work for Gates or what !!
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Thomas you have not added one decent comment to this thread mate, all you have done is wage a hate campaign, and probably just because the 360 has arrived before the PS3. As for the video, I didnt delete it, all I deleted was you saying a PS2 didnt do that, which in fact launch machines did do. Also why would anyone want to move there machine while there is a disc running? Have you done it with your PC? Your PS2? Nope I didnt think so.

As for me censoring you, quite frankly you've posted enough anti MS shite in this thread you have taken FANBOYISM to an entirely new level. You really think I care the 360 aint launched well in Japan? I'm from Europe and I got one, think its a case of 'bothered'. Even in the PS3 thread you posted pics of your beloved PS3 screens which turned out to be 360 in game pics, which you had to acknowledge and I bet that was a tough pill to swallow mate. You want to post this stuff, fine go to some PS3ISBRILL forum somewhere else mate, there is no need for it here.
 
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Those photos were put out of context...

Consoles sold out within half an hour at the launch event at Shibuya Tsutaya Shopping Centre.

Recently, Microsoft held the Launch event for the Xbox 360 at the Shibuya Tsutaya Shopping Centre in Tokyo, the same place where the launch party for the orignal Xbox, a rather unpopular platform for the japanese, was held.

The unpopularity of the Xbox platform was now officially over at the launch party, where the successor to the console had sold out within half an hour to eager Japanese consumers.

After the launch ceremony, Peter Moore, Microsoft corporate vice president of worldwide marketing and publishing and Yoshihiro Maruyama, Microsoft Japan's Xbox operations chief, issued some statements regarding their competitors in the console market. "History tells us that no great empire lasts forever," said Moore. "In the case of the Sony PlayStation, obviously it has been a great empire. But when a superior culture comes along, typically, it means the end of that empire. We believe that the superior culture is the Xbox 360 games experience, particularly the Xbox Live experience, which will bring communities from around the world together through gaming."

Source : Gamespot
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They weren't really. C&VG have posted a story that early indications are the machine has sold even less than the original Xbox did there in it's opening weekend. Less than 30% of the Japanese launch stock has been sold, and because retailers aren't able to return stock to the supplier some places are selling the machines for as low as half-price.

The lack of decent launch titles doesn't help (especially no DOA4) but I don't think it's going to do well there even in the future.
 
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Not such a great launch is Japan:

JAPAN: THANKS MICROSOFT, BUT NO THANKS

Xbox 360 sells less than original Xbox during Japanese launch weekend, retailers slashing prices by more than half

10:06 After going all out on the Japanese launch of Xbox 360 over the weekend, hiring dancing ladies, prancing elephants and over two hundred day-glo green dwarves to ring in the next-gen (okay, okay, so they didn't - they gave out bags), early sales figures are starting to trickle across the internet. And, let's put it this way, Peter Moore probably isn't likely to be whooping and punching the air too much this morning.
Reuters is reporting that Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has released results of their independent study, finding that only 62,000 Xbox 360s were sold on December 10 and 11 - less than 30 percent of the total estimated 159,000 units allocated to the territory.

By way of comparison, this figure is less than half the number of original Xbox's sold during its Japanese launch weekend in February 2002 - the total number then reaching 123,000. Enterbrain is attributing this slow start for the 360 in Japan - the second biggest videogame market in the world - to the delay of Dead or Alive 4, now scheduled to arrive December 29. The report notes that many customers cancelled their pre-orders after the slip was announced while others postponed the purchase of their console until after the game's release.

Further adding insult to injury, Kotaku.com is reporting that retailers, who're contractually unable to return unsold stock to Microsoft, are slashing prices across the territory. The 38,800 yen console has seen a price drop as low as 18,800 yen in some areas - that's roughly 182 GBP, fact fans.

So yes, if you're one of the many unlucky people who failed to get their hands on an Xbox 360 during the European launch, you might want to consider nipping over to Japan or something. Looks like a bargain from where we're sitting.

Source: www.computerandvideogames.com

Not entirely unexpected. I will admit that I am a Sony fanboy, but having said that I did buy a Xbox 360 just a couple of days ago and am really enjoying it. I always expected that Japan wouldn't take to it mainly because of their brand loyalty to Sony and Nintendo.
 
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Regarding the disc scratching issue. It states quite clearly in the manual NOT to move the console from vertical to horizontal whilst a disc is in the drive.
 
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