Yes i know it shows your address but the point still stands since he finally learned how to block his address in post 78.To be fair, he is not lying. I just checked it myself and your address does appear above the "sold and shipped by..." section. Which is admittedly, easy to miss that it's a third party seller, in small print down there, especially since there are no red flags. It ships free and the price is not inflated.
That said, it IS a third party seller, lol.
Yes i know it shows your address but the point still stands since he finally learned how to block his address in post 78.
Me too. I've been an Xbox gamer since the first Xbox launched in Europe, which was in March 2002. It's been a while, and I have tons of great memories. Halo. Jet Set Radio Future. Halo 3. Condemned. The Project Gotham Racing series. Gears of War. Forza Horizon 3. Rise of the Tomb Raider.I'm extremely critical of modern Xbox though and I'm still annoyed at how they have handled a brand I have lots of fond memories with.
+ More copper for the cooling (at launch I think it had about twice more copper than PS5), more expensive vapor cooling (Sony use cheap volume of the cooling stuff to cool its PS5). Very complex double motherboard, non custom expensive SSD, non custom expensive Disc drive etc... We saw this at launch. The standard SSD, disc drive as you call them are likely twice more expensive than the custom ones designed and manufactured by Sony.Even comparing with the PS5 Slim APU on 6nm, the XSX APU should cost maybe $30 more. The motherboard might be slightly more expensive due to the wider bus, but everything else should use standard components that are a similar or worse spec to the PS5. So I don't see how you get to $150-200 more expensive without major supply chain differences.
No idea…Whats up with the potato ?
Many of those 3rd party sellers that WalMart hosts can fuck you over and WalMart wont do a thing about it, trust me have been there
So while technically WalMart is hosting 3rd party sellers that does not mean you will ever get anything in return you pay for and WalMart will not stand behind them
So personally in no way would I consider something showing up on WalMarts site via a 3rd party seller as being in stock
How is the acquisition make it desirable? It is literally the games that was always going to be on Xbox. Buying up third parties is the equivalent of spraying acid in your competitor's faces to try and win a beauty pageant. People want unique gaming experiences. Xbox couldn't deliver so they just try to take games away from PlayStation instead. And that killed Xbox hardware instead when Activision reverse-acquired Xbox.Its absolutely bizarre how their consoles are completely dead like this, might be the biggest bomba console in recent times considering the internet campaign and the acquisitions to make it desirable.
Yeah if you're going to go that route, better to order from an Amazon approved 3rd party I would think.I don't order very much online, but it's good to know that Walmart is not reliable for 3rd party sales. Thank you.
Austin Evans found the XSX heatsink to weigh 804g, while the PS5 Pro motherboard + heatsink weighs 974g. While the launch PS5's heatsink apparently weighed 1368 grams. From what I can see online, vapor chambers cost around 2X the price of regular copper heatsinks, so that could be an extra $10. Overall, the APU + motherboard + cooling is probably an extra $50 over the PS5 Slim.+ More copper for the cooling (at launch I think it had about twice more copper than PS5), more expensive vapor cooling (Sony use cheap volume of the cooling stuff to cool its PS5). Very complex double motherboard, non custom expensive SSD, non custom expensive Disc drive etc... We saw this at launch. The standard SSD, disc drive as you call them are likely twice more expensive than the custom ones designed and manufactured by Sony.
I purchased a router from a 3rd party seller on Walmart.com and the box arrived with no router in it and a bunch of obviously very used and weird cablesI don't order very much online, but it's good to know that Walmart is not reliable for 3rd party sales. Thank you.
How is the acquisition make it desirable? It is literally the games that was always going to be on Xbox. Buying up third parties is the equivalent of spraying acid in your competitor's faces to try and win a beauty pageant. People want unique gaming experiences. Xbox couldn't deliver so they just try to take games away from PlayStation instead. And that killed Xbox hardware instead when Activision reverse-acquired Xbox.
The Xbox Series X as hardware is just fine. But Phil just doesn't know what a good game looks like.
No point being a cowboy fan while Jerry is running that circus ... eventually he will be gone and maybe the rest of the family can run that shit like a proper football team. At least thats what I hope for.You think people likeadamsapple
HeisenbergFX4 and @Kvally will let that derail the fantasy? No... It's not how this works.
I just watched Xbox Two and what you realize is that they'll keep this going beyond the most ridiculous stage. They'll criticize Phil which is new, but they'll also defend him and Microsoft at the same time and say all the moves they're making NOW are correct, but they spent the last year glazing the idea of a handheld for example.
They can't imagine a world without Xbox even if that isn't Satya Nadella's priority at all. Whatever Xbox becomes in the future, you'll have these guys circling around it.
Hell, you just had someone post a thread that Sega should re-enter the console market after 20+ years...
It's what happens when your entire personality is based around something specific like this. I can't tell you how many things I've held really close to me that I've called it quits on: Dallas Cowboys, NFL, MLB, Blackberry, Android, Rotary Engines, Internal combustion engines in general... Let things come and go in your life as needed...
These are not major retailers... which again is what the OP is referring to here. antonline does not have enough stock to satisfy even a couple weeks of real console demand nationwide and even Antonline only has the Digital XSX...
No point being a cowboy fan while Jerry is running that circus ... eventually he will be gone and maybe the rest of the family can run that shit like a proper football team. At least thats what I hope for.
Its amasing how this things are allowed in your country... in mine I understand, is a shitshow 3rd world country, and buying anything outside retail is sure thing for fake shit. I personally think should be forbidden huge retailers selling 3rd party shit from anyone.Many of those 3rd party sellers that WalMart hosts can fuck you over and WalMart wont do a thing about it, trust me have been there
So while technically WalMart is hosting 3rd party sellers that does not mean you will ever get anything in return you pay for and WalMart will not stand behind them
So personally in no way would I consider something showing up on WalMarts site via a 3rd party seller as being in stock
That why I said "maybe".... shit this happens sometimes.. the old guy die, and the rest of the family just want to cruise the billions into the sun or the heirs just want to split things up who knows... I aint holding my breath though.I thought that too when I was a naive young buck, but then I realized that his son is just as bad. Unless they sold the team and they never will, there is no point in supporting that team.
Copper vs aluminium. From hazy memory XSX had much more of it. Aluminium costs nothing comparatively. Sony buys chips by the ten of thousands and design and does all the rest, and it's solderied on the MB, which is even cheaper to make. WD can charge whatever they want at those low volume, same thing with disc drive and the whole MB setup. Just look at the price of PS5 Pro right now vs 2TB XSX!Austin Evans found the XSX heatsink to weigh 804g, while the PS5 Pro motherboard + heatsink weighs 974g. While the launch PS5's heatsink apparently weighed 1368 grams. From what I can see online, vapor chambers cost around 2X the price of regular copper heatsinks, so that could be an extra $10. Overall, the APU + motherboard + cooling is probably an extra $50 over the PS5 Slim.
So you would need an extra $100 for the other components. The Blue Ray drive could be $15 more ($30 vs. $15), but Sony doesn't make the NAND that goes in the SSD, only the controller. And that's the bulk of the expense. Microsoft is paying some additional markup to Western Digital to provide the controller + NAND together, but I doubt WD are charging Microsoft double the market rate for the NAND. So in practice it could be a another $15 difference.
However if the original XSX is really too expensive for Microsoft to manufacture, they can just drop it, and keep the new model. They could reduce the memory on the 2TB version to 1TB, for example. Since the new revision has a 6nm chip, simplified motherboard, and drops the vapor chamber.
I know I personally bought my Series X because I didn't want to lose out on things like Starfield (lmao idea in hindsight) or a Dishonored 3 if I stuck with my PS5.How is the acquisition make it desirable? It is literally the games that was always going to be on Xbox. Buying up third parties is the equivalent of spraying acid in your competitor's faces to try and win a beauty pageant. People want unique gaming experiences. Xbox couldn't deliver so they just try to take games away from PlayStation instead. And that killed Xbox hardware instead when Activision reverse-acquired Xbox.
The Xbox Series X as hardware is just fine. But Phil just doesn't know what a good game looks like.
The only hope left is all the old game devs that left end up starting new studios and make spiritual successors of old classics.PS fans actually get hurt, because now all those IP that would have been on PS anyway are managed by Phil Spencer. The guy who managed his business so bad, he had to go third party. Let that sink in.
And if they wanted Xbox games, they always had the option to play them somewhere else if they wanted to.
The acquisition was a giant hit to gaming. In my opinion, the only hope to reverse course is for Microsoft's corporate culture to flip and for Phil to get fired. Yeah, we're screwed. They will just burn through the value of IP after IP faster than a liquidation attorney.
The only hope left is all the old game devs that left end up starting new studios and make spiritual successors of old classics.
Out of all the IPs lost to Phil I was most worried about Elder Scrolls. However, we have been waiting so long for the next title and I am not sure Todd is going the right direction, that i am starting to lose hope that it would be anything close to what I want when it comes out.
The irony is that if the next Xbox ended up being a PC, Todd might have to go back to giving TES games the mouse control UI again.
The XSX has a copper vapor chamber/heatsink, and the rest is all aluminium. You can see the teardown here:Copper vs aluminium. From hazy memory XSX had much more of it. Aluminium costs nothing comparatively. Sony buys chips by the ten of thousands and design and does all the rest, and it's solderied on the MB, which is even cheaper to make. WD can charge whatever they want at those low volume, same thing with disc drive and the whole MB setup. Just look at the price of PS5 Pro right now vs 2TB XSX!
You thinking I see things through a Sony prism is only a thing because Sony's doing well as a company and Microsoft isn't. [Edit: In gaming]
Xbros have been able to close their eyes and cover their ears and live in la la land up until now. But once retail stops ordering more units it's game over. That's when reality hits and there is no more hiding from it.
Sony is outselling their competition by more than 2:1, yeah, that's going to result in rosier commentary from me. I don't care personally if someone plays on PC, Xbox, PS5, or Switch. You're projecting your own state onto me. When it comes to PC, PS5, and Xbox... the games are the exact same 95% of the time. Gaming has never been so homogeneous before.
My advice to you and others is to stick to the facts, but I've given that advice before. It falls on deaf ears.
The UK and other regions are running suspiciously low on Xbox Series X console stocks, why is PlayStation still widely more available?
We know everything is an Xbox now, but what if you want an actual Xbox Series X console? If you're in the UK and looking to buy an Xbox Series X, you might have a struggle trying to find stock of the original...
Do I personally think Microsoft has contributed a lot to gaming? Not really... No. What are their big franchises in the last 25 years? They're not a pivotal publisher. I could name 10 companies that have produced more engaging new IP in the last 25 years than Microsoft has. What genres have they defined or elevated? Their console business has not been well run either.
You see this as me rooting against Microsoft/Xbox because that is the prism in which you see everything as a zero sum game. I'm just out here doing my best to do a decent job analyzing the industry and where it is going and you have to be blind not to see that Microsoft isn't doing well and their future is precarious at best.
It's like saying I'm not critical enough of the OKC Thunder and that I'm rooting against the New Orleans Pelicans...
As for seeing things through a Sony prism, here we have a post about the demise of Codemasters and the potential end of the F1 franchise and your immediate thought is how this situation could benefit Sony:
Sony were the previous custodians of the F1 franchise, so for most people that would be the first place they'd think to continue the series.
Your persecution complex is beyond tedious.
Realistically RG, I don't think Mibu had Sony in mind because they made a few F1 games twenty years ago.Sony were the previous custodians of the F1 franchise, so for most people that would be the first place they'd think to continue the series.
Your persecution complex is beyond tedious.
Honestly it doesn't bother me if people like that call me an Xbox fanboy its straight marching orders from their commander in chief that was banned from here and started his own forumsMibu, you've been accusing one of the most reasonable posters on this forum (HeisenbergFX4) of being some hardcore Xbox fanboy. That to me and to others illustrates bias and how your dislike of Xbox can go beyond "calling balls and strikes."
And they shut down their F1 studio like Code masters seems to be heading towards.
Best not to revisit that.
I purchased a router from a 3rd party seller on Walmart.com and the box arrived with no router in it and a bunch of obviously very used and weird cables
I took it to a local Walmart store looking for a refund and ended up having to deal with a manager because I was kind of shocked at their answer they would not help me in the least since it wasn't sold and shipped by Walmart
I then had to pay for return shipping and never got any kind of a refund plus they never would return any of my emails so I was just out the money
Yeah I wasn't happy to say the leastThat's an even worse story than I was imagining. You must have been furious. That's straight up ripping off people and, considering it's being done on their site, Walmart has no right to say they're not involved.