Signed 360 Not Quite the Prize it Seems

[Logan Westbrook]

Signed 360 Not Quite the Prize it Seems

Winning a custom Xbox 360 signed by Peter Molyneux sounds like a pretty good prize right? Wrong.

Lionhead ran a competition a little while back to celebrate the release of the See the Future DLC for Fable II, with the winner scoring a custom Xbox 360 signed by Peter Molyneux.

So when 'NeoxDonut' won the grand prize, imagine his surprise when he tried to plug the console in, and found the AV port totally unusable.

Apparently, the guts of the console are from an Xbox 360 Elite, but the case is from a first generation Xbox 360. Check out the picture if you want to see exactly how messed up that looks.

Looks like Lionhead, and Microsoft of course, really dropped the ball on this one.

Source: Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5305943/congrats-you-win-an-xbox-360-with-a-messed-up-slot?skyline=true&s=x]


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[Pirce]

Hahahaha well isn't that rich?

 

[Vriggchan]

Thats awesome power to playing people for chumps

 

[HobbesMkii]

Well, see, it's more about just having it to look at. Appreciate it. Don't stare to long, and definitely don't use it.

I'm more interested in where he signed it.

 

[Aptspire]

yep...another overhyped Molyneux project that falls on its face

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I can't help but have the feeling that someone noticed the problem, but decided to keep his mouth shut for one reason or another.

 

[JRCB]

Wow. That's really sad that they tried to scam the guy. And now he has a broken (ish) 360.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Damn, they're even cheaper than I thought they were. Way to drop the ball again Peter.

 

[Lexodus]

Heh. They're so crap, they're 'practically' giving them away.

 

[SquirrelPants]

Well it's not like he paid for it, is it? He could just look at it. I'm sure having that dude's signature has SOME sort of good side.
...
Like Ebay!

 

[Cliff_m85]

Always look on the bright side, atleast it'll never RROD.

 

[majeh13]

The guy got a signed 360 for a prize, if he wants one to play he can go to Best Buy.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

There's two ways around this.

1: Rip out the case, and shove it in a new 360 case.

2: Just slice off the bit of plastic, and VOILA. You can plug the damn cables in!

 

[The Great JT]

Phahahahahahaha. That's gold, right there.

 

[IamQ]

Is this worse than RROD?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Is this worse than RROD?

You can't even plug it in to power it up to see the RROD.