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Daddy Agree To Buy Me PSP

Daddy agree to buy me PSP at X’mas time when we head to Singapore. Quite a nice price :
White PSP Giga Pack : 499SGD
1 Game : 69SGD
Additional PlayGear Pocket or PSP Headset : 49SGD

I will be AWAY

i’ll be going to Malacca on Friday till Sunday, wait my brother to arrive in Malacca then we will go to Puchong together…My couzz place…On Tuesday, we are going home. Before going home, hehehe, I will head to One Utama to buy my Nintendo DS 1st, a black DS, will post some pict after i get it….haha I rulez handheld gaming.

Hahax…My first forum

I and 1 of my friend had created a game forum called GamingNationx
Dude…Please support it, so many links :
http://gamingnation.forumer.com
http://gamingnation.999.org
http://gamingnantion.co.nr

Xbox 360 Crashes, Defects Reported

If true, there will be lots of sad gamers this weekend. by Jane Pinkard from 1up.com

So, the Xbox 360 launch was a success, right? Turns out the jury is still out - and early reports the morning after are not pretty. From unconfirmed rumors of near-riots as employees apparently hoarded Xbox 360 systems in front of waiting customers, to numbers of pre-orders that went unfulfilled, some are saying Microsoft mishandled the launch.

But those who actually got the system in hand are breathing easy and living it up, right?

Some of them are. But others are posting a plethoral of problems with their brand-new 360s, from game crashes to hard drives that simply don’t work.

One reasonable gamer lays it out like this: “Between my friends and I, we bought 6 machines at the Zero Hour event. Of the 6, my machine has a dead hard drive, another machine is working but is rather flaky (seen some strange behavior - the drive may also be scratching discs, as my friend’s copy of Condemned is now unplayably scratched, but we don’t know if the drive caused it - the machine has also had problems booting games and being turned off…), one seems to be good, and I haven’t heard yet about the status of the other three.”

Is there enough evidence to shout “recall”? While there are plenty of stories in the games press and blogging scene this morning, many of them seem centered on one fellow’s experience - a poster called “Jsgongwon” on the Xbox-Scene forums who included pictures of his crash, which apparently happened repeatedly during Project Gotham Racing 3. “So far haven’t been able to play one track without crashing… also got this crashing on Xbox Live screen and on startup too…” he writes.

Another fellow on the same message board reports that his 360 “just turned off” during Perfect Dark Zero.

And some stories seem - well, not to be unduly harsh, but they seem a bit shady. One poster, for example, claimed she had exchanged her 360 because of a defect and the same thing happened. Other posters wondered how on earth she found another 360 in the same area to trade her old one for. I’m not calling her a liar, understand, but merely pointing out it’s easy to make stuff up on the internet.

But that there are some systems experiencing real problems is not in doubt. Even here in our offices we have had some incidents with retail units. One of them overheated and crashed during Project Gotham Racing 3, though not as spectacularly as Jsgongwon’s experience. Dan “Shoe” Hsu also reported that a very strange echo effect happened during Xbox Live play of Perfect Dark Zero - sometimes a word said over chat would endlessly repeat in a strange echo effect over and over in the headphones. Some kind of bizarre feedback loop?

Just how widespread is the scope of 360 problems, though? It’s a little too early to call whether these problems are systemic or isolated bugs. Consumers have to spend a little more time with the machines and we do, too, testing out various games and Xbox Live experiences. We also need to divide the hardware problems from the software bugs. Microsoft has been alerted to these issues and are currently investigating. We should have a statement from them shortly.

In the meantime, if you do have a 360, treat it as you would a gaming PC, which is essentially what it is. Don’t leave it on all night long to idle, don’t wrap it in a blanket, don’t stick it anywhere it won’t get enough ventilation. Just in case.

Stay tuned as we follow up on this developing story.

Source : http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3145847

Xbox 360: Zero Hour

The Xbox 360 Consoles Arrive | Xbox 360 Lauched in North America

With ten minutes left to go, breakdance entertainer Tommy the Clown took the stage and pumped the crowd up for the imminent arrival of the Xbox 360™ consoles. “Are you ready for your Xbox 360?”

The crowd roared. Tommy then brought two gamers onstage, Edgar and Mike, who had driven 1,800 miles from Mississippi.

It took them 35 hours and they declined to say how many speeding tickets they got. They got lost in the desert and spent the night in their car, but still arrived at Site 9 a full 24 hours early.

In recognition of their harrowing feat, these two die-hard Halo® fans were chosen to receive the first Xbox 360 consoles. Behind them on a massive screen a clock appeared counting down the final 360 seconds.

At the other end of the hangar six-story hangar doors opened slowly and three Best Buy trucks, preceded by a police escort, rolled into Zero Hour. The crowd parted as the trucks made their way to the Zero Hour Best Buy store and parked just as the countdown clock hit zero.

Truck doors opened to reveal Xbox 360 consoles stacked to the ceiling. With three trucks packed to capacity and 30 Best Buy cashiers on standby, Zero Hour became the largest Best Buy retail location in the country.

Xbox team members watching from a platform above got a bit choked up seeing the Xbox 360 consoles reach the hands of the gamers at last.

Best Buy employees unloaded the consoles onto rollers to stock all 30 registers.

Edgar and Mike got their consoles fresh from the back of a truck and held them above their heads in triumph. The gate was then opened and gamers made their way to the registers, high-fiving the Best Buy cashiers on the way.

Though the line of thousands of gamers moved quickly, it snaked in a great, large U around the entire hangar.

In a twist of fate, we ran into Cade Nichols and Zach Kibbee, the first two gamers in line to enter Zero Hour on Sunday. They were racing for the exit to get home and set up, but paused long enough to say, simply, “Incredible!”

When pushed to say more, they mentioned that the box was heavier than they thought it would be. “Chock full of love,” Kibbee said. They were on their way to set up system link at a friend’s house, then help him stand in line at midnight madness to get his own console.

They each walked off with a bean bag in one hand and Xbox 360 in the other.

Although Xbox 360 had launched in North America, but I would not buy the import version of Xbox 360 from US. It had been many complain about freezing and crash on many Xbox 360 system, Microsoft is now investigating what was wrong with those Xbox 360 system. GameSpot Forumer keep on complaining about the overheating issue. Luckily, I not yet get the 360, I will wait for Singapore official Xbox 360 launch and get my system ther…w00t…

Microsoft taking $126 hit per Xbox 360

BusinessWeek commissions study, which says the software giant is paying a premium on next-gen hardware.

Sony Malaysia Launched PSP

Sony Malaysia had finally launch PSP. I read this from the www.sony.com.my . During the promotion, it come with 3 different package.

Package 1 : Sony PSP 1006K + UMD Game(Ridge Racer)
Package 2 : Sony PSP 1006K + 512MB Memory Stick + UMD Game(Ridge Racer)
Package 3 : Sony PSP 1006K + Zorro Pack + UMD Game(Ridge Racer)

Zorro Pack Content : 1GB Memory Stick, UMD Case, Screen Protector, Image Converter 2, Video and Music CD Content for PSP.

Every Puchase of PSP will get free PSP ID Band and PSP Neckstrap.

We Malaysian had already waited the PSP to lauch for 1 year and finally it arrive. Getting a PSP from Sony will be more expensive but you will get an official Sony Warranty. For me, I prefer not getting from Sony because I can save more money for buying it’s accessories. Hehe. However, the Package 3 is good, it just like the PSP Giga Pack launching this November in other countries which content a 1GB Memory Card, just because they come with the UMD Game-Ridge Racer, I’ve already finish the game in my friend’s PSP. I’m getting a PSP around this Christmas and NDS after CNY 2006. ~Happy Holiday~

Xbox 360 shortage? Not in Japan, mayhaps

Early last month, we floated the theory that the Xbox 360’s single price point in Japan points to both a desire to give Japanese consumers a price break ($337 at today’s exchange rates for the nicer bundle!) and to ease supply issues.

The image to the right comes from a large Toys-R-Us with no Xbox section in Tokyo, Japan. To purchase your Xbox 360 there, grab a ticket, make a deposit of just $8.47 US, and you can come back on launch day and pick up your 360.

Simple enough. But judging from the number of tickets still in that pouch, Japanese consumers who visit that Toys-R-Us store aren’t biting. The complete lack of shelf space certainly doesn’t help sell the console. What’s it look like? Why should I plunk down 1000 yen for a product I can’t even see? Would you buy a console based on a display that consists of a little pouch filled with tickets? The American launch includes kiosks at retailers in every city. Maybe Japanese consumers don’t put much stock in kiosk displays and they were therefore determined to be a poor investment?

Maybe.

As our man CheapyD (he of CheapAssGamer.com) said in IM earlier today, “I think the only way most people [here in Japan] would even notice an Xbox 360 is if someone hit them in the head with it.”