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.

[GayASSAdmins]

They should Double Check The plans before making the Final Customized product.

[TheAntiFanboy]

Especially if that product is one of like ten or twenty.

...what's with your goofy capitalizing?

[Seraphim]

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.

[jessehaysfl]

that is just sad. I bet dude was crushed.

[All Time Greatness]

I think this best sums up this article:

http://www.classictvquotes....

http://www.bimmerfest.com/p...

[Milky]

idiots...

[jessehaysfl]

@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.

[Syronicus]

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.

[glennc]

it is pretty obvious the original ringed and they changed the insides at the last minute.

[neoxdonut]

Top story on Kotaku for now, and now I find it on N4G.

[uxo22]

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!

[Mo0eY]

That must suck.

[San Frandisco]

*shakes head* fvckin XbOX

[GayASSAdmins]

you realise that this is a customized xbox right? and the ones who did the desing for this are the ones at fault here?

[Why dis]

Slow news week or two

[masterofpwnage]

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

[NotSoSilentBob]

You should go ask Bloodmask about that slow news week. He digs deeper then anyone for anti-ps3 blogs.

[GayASSAdmins]

WHo will be the 1st homo to post sumthing Trollish?

Ken?
Nelson?
Steve?

The race is on !

[BX81]

I say Nelson he's one of the top trolls. But really some one should have pulled there head out of there a$$ before giving him this console. This is the doing of someone who obviously doesn't take pride in their work.

[2FootYard]

goat teeth.

[peeps]

u've just gotta wonder when they were making it if they looked at the back and thought.... nah that will be fine lol it's a kick in the face for a prize winner tbh. lets hope they fix it for him buy who knows. what comp was it in anyway? 1 on kotaku?

[meatnormous]

I can only guess on how they could repair that. Do they get a new case and signature and how long would that take, or do they just replace the mobo with an old one. Either way its a pretty big mess up.

[peeps]

musta been pretty annoying tbh. i guess they will fix it for him though?

[TheAntiFanboy]

Yeah, they should. Microsoft were idiots with their hardware reliability but made up for it with their warranty.

[jay2]

I find the gact that it was even shiped very worrying

[Nikuma]

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.

[Too_Hyped]

Another day, another failure on 360.

[kaveti6616]

The guy who got this should definitely post this story on FML.

[FantasyStar]

Yup, his life is truly ****ed.

[FantasyStar]

Dude, that's horrible. I wouldn't wish that kind of fate on any of my fellow gamers.

[PopEmUp]

tough luck there buddy :P

but don't worry Microsoft will fixed for him :D

[micro_invader]

Wow, that's pretty cheap. That guy must feel gutted right about now.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Cry me a river.. The guy get's a free Xbox 360 autographed by Peter M and people still cry and whine.

That's "gamers" for you..

[Narutone66]

Winning the $10 Million lottery and getting only $10 because of the taxes. I wonder how you would feel GEC.

[BX81]

@meatnormous the sig. I'm sure is on the top across the fable pic. So my guess is they would send him a new bottom and he could switch it out himself. But this would require talking to a customer service rep and as we all know the odds of getting a customer service rep that closely resembles the one in the 1st Transformers movie is a lot higher than getting an American one. So this process would be lengthy and painful. Sucks for the guy.

[Ellessdee]

http://img32.imageshack.us/...

sums it up pretty well if i do say so myself.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Apparently it wasn't meant to be played.

[MriownBOTH]

this news bahhh...slow news week...

[PS360PCROCKS]

Oh man...wtf Microsoft? lol that's just wrong

[GiantEnemyCrab]

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.

[dktxx2]

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.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

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.

[Willio]

How would you fix it? carve out the plastic? I dint know a shank is required to play a 360.

[NotSoSilentBob]

Should anyone be surprised by the lack of quality control this late into the 360s life?

[NotSoSilentBob]

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.

[bjornbear]

Poor guy =( i'd file complaint instantly, thats just totally unfair, even if its a contest reward.

[Quadrix]

I pity anyone who still buys their ****.

[dktxx2]

They didn't do it on purpose. They probably made a mistake, you know, like all humans do?

[oOLightOo]

Wow.....*shakes head

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

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.

[dktxx2]

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?

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Wow, you have no sense of humor. It was simply a joke.

[Saaking]

That Xbox looks so cool. I feel bad for the guy, hopefully he'll be sent a replacement or something.

[aaron5829]

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...

[sunil]

made my day... thanks for the post !

[devilhunterx]

Xbox2 = The Failure is YOURS!

[demonwor]

Ironically people get consoles to get away from idiotic hardware issues like this