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Congrats: You Win An Xbox 360 With A Messed Up Slot

Kotaku Writes:
Know who won that Fable II signed Xbox 360 contest? Some guy named NeoxDonut. He was thrilled to get the Peter Molyneux autographed console. That is, until he tried plugging it in.

The customized console is wrapped in a first generation casing. The innards seem new, but the shell is not.
Pics after the jump.
animboo - contributor
Published: 169 days 17 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | Gaming
 
 

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1 GayASSAdmins | 169 days 17 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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TheAntiFanboy - 169 days 16 hours ago
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Especially if that product is one of like ten or twenty.

...what's with your goofy capitalizing?
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Seraphim - 169 days 16 hours ago
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LOL!!!!!!!!!

that's just too funny!

Maybe they figured the winner already has a 360 so they don't want to use the xbox. They just want the case for show. Lol... yeah, at some point you think someone would have looked and said, hey, we can't ship this, the console won't even work with this case! that's just wrong.
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jessehaysfl - 169 days 16 hours ago
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that is just sad. I bet dude was crushed.
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All Time Greatness - 169 days 15 hours ago
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I think this best sums up this article:

http://www.classictvquotes....

http://www.bimmerfest.com/p...
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joe382 - 169 days 14 hours ago
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idiots...
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jessehaysfl - 169 days 14 hours ago
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@johnniebadfinger.....

speaking of great engineering accomplishments...

What have the aussie's done?

An opera house?

Do the aussies have a space program? what about car companies that aren't copies of US companies or furthermore the very same companies?

Sorry to jump but I work in american aerospace engineering and get a little miffed when people bad mouth something they know nothing about. America has the best engineers in the world. Most asian engineers get there education here in the united states. (south west asian's anyway)

And to compare a video game console's engineering to a country's engineering prowess..........wow.
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Syronicus - 169 days 14 hours ago
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Seriously?You have got to be kidding me! WTF Microsoft?

Also:

@ JohnnyBadfinger

Try and be less of a bigot and more of a respectable poster here. It's not an "American" thing or any other country, it's a Microsoft thing and last I knew, MS had employees at every corner of the globe. Stereotypes are for morons.
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glennc - 169 days ago
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it is pretty obvious the original ringed and they changed the insides at the last minute.
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neoxdonut - 169 days 17 hours ago
2 - Wow
Top story on Kotaku for now, and now I find it on N4G.
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uxo22 - 168 days 19 hours ago
2.1 - Hmmm
I would like to see a shot of that slot with the camera zoomed back. For All we know that's not even the same console.

But if that is the way it was sent to this guy, peter needs to be kicked in his arse!
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Mooey - 169 days 16 hours ago
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That must suck.
4 San Frandisco | 169 days 16 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
4.1 GayASSAdmins | 169 days 16 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
5 Why dis | 169 days 16 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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masterofpwnage - 169 days 15 hours ago
5.1 - Well this is news
Imean come on the guy who won the 360 was probably really happy to get it until that promblem, its not big like him gettig news but it's still news.
If this was a ps3 Im damn sure u will be bashing away
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NotSoSilentBob - 169 days 8 hours ago
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You should go ask Bloodmask about that slow news week. He digs deeper then anyone for anti-ps3 blogs.
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peeps - 169 days 16 hours ago
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musta been pretty annoying tbh. i guess they will fix it for him though?
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TheAntiFanboy - 169 days 16 hours ago
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Yeah, they should. Microsoft were idiots with their hardware reliability but made up for it with their warranty.
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jay2 - 169 days 16 hours ago
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I find the gact that it was even shiped very worrying
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Nikuma - 169 days 16 hours ago
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I would sell that thing in a heartbeat. Could probably get a decent price for it and I'd rather not have a pic of a horrible game plastered on my system.
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kaveti6616 - 169 days 16 hours ago
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The guy who got this should definitely post this story on FML.
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FantasyStar - 169 days 15 hours ago
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Yup, his life is truly ****ed.
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FantasyStar - 169 days 15 hours ago
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Dude, that's horrible. I wouldn't wish that kind of fate on any of my fellow gamers.
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PopEmUp - 169 days 15 hours ago
11 - wow
tough luck there buddy :P

but don't worry Microsoft will fixed for him :D
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Ellessdee - 169 days 11 hours ago
12 - here yeah go.
http://img32.imageshack.us/...

sums it up pretty well if i do say so myself.
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ASSASSYN 36o - 169 days 10 hours ago
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Apparently it wasn't meant to be played.
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MriownBOTH - 169 days 9 hours ago
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this news bahhh...slow news week...
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PS360WiiRocks - 169 days 8 hours ago
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Oh man...wtf Microsoft? lol that's just wrong
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GiantEnemyCrab - 169 days 4 hours ago
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Boohoo my FREE Xbox isn't perfect! Give it to me and I will make it work and you won't hear one whimper from me about it.
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dktxx2 - 168 days 21 hours ago
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I guarantee that if you won a broken 360, you'd be upset. If you had any sense you'd handle it privately first instead of b!tching about it online, but you would be at least a little angry.
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ASSASSYN 36o - 168 days 21 hours ago
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Read the article high speed. It isn't broken. It has the wrong case on a 360 elite/pro frame. Hell at least picture read.
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Willio - 168 days 20 hours ago
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How would you fix it? carve out the plastic? I dint know a shank is required to play a 360.
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NotSoSilentBob - 169 days 4 hours ago
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Should anyone be surprised by the lack of quality control this late into the 360s life?
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NotSoSilentBob - 168 days 21 hours ago
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Some disagrees with the fact that the 360 has Poor Quality control? Google it to see for yourself that even MS employees admit that MS would cut corners. Keep powering the flame war 360 fanyboy.
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bjornbear - 169 days 3 hours ago
18 - He just got "Molyneuxed"...
Poor guy =( i'd file complaint instantly, thats just totally unfair, even if its a contest reward.
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Quadrix - 168 days 23 hours ago
19 - Typical Microsoft...
I pity anyone who still buys their ****.
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dktxx2 - 168 days 21 hours ago
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They didn't do it on purpose. They probably made a mistake, you know, like all humans do?
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oOLightOo - 168 days 22 hours ago
20 - ....
Wow.....*shakes head
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Microsoft Xbox 360 - 168 days 21 hours ago
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Don't expect a working Xbox 360 if you got it for free. It wouldn't be fair for paying consumers who suffer from the same (or equivalent) hardware defect on the same day of purchase.
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dktxx2 - 168 days 21 hours ago
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He won it in a contest. Of course he expected it to work. You would to. And how would expecting a working 360 be unfair to anyone?
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Microsoft Xbox 360 - 168 days 19 hours ago
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Wow, you have no sense of humor. It was simply a joke.
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Saaking - 168 days 20 hours ago
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That Xbox looks so cool. I feel bad for the guy, hopefully he'll be sent a replacement or something.
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aaron5829 - 168 days 20 hours ago
23 - Wow...
If he sends it in for repair.. i'm pretty sure, a new white casing will be sent back to him.. Fable 2 and autograph vanished.

lol...

that sucked...
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sunil - 168 days 19 hours ago
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made my day... thanks for the post !
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demonwor - 168 days 17 hours ago
25 - Pitty
Ironically people get consoles to get away from idiotic hardware issues like this
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