Smoking Xbox Series X Investigated

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#5855705
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hah the stupid thing people do to get attention in social media
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Astyanax:

are both of them Core controllers? if the share button is missing, its a One pad.
No, they're the new versions with share buttons. It came with my sealed Series X. The new controller I bought brand new felt more premium. Wish I still had it, I sold it with my One X. One controller I already sold a week ago. Could have made a video of it, now I can't prove it..
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signex:

No, they're the new versions with share buttons. It came with my sealed Series X. The new controller I bought brand new felt more premium. Wish I still had it, I sold it with my One X. One controller I already sold a week ago. Could have made a video of it, now I can't prove it..
interesting, not unusual for revisions to be made between boxed console and seperate controller purchases, but never to this degree.
#5855782
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Get your xbox x now they are smokin hot! (sry couldnt resist).
#5855788
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Anyone else thinks that getting a Series X for whatever it is... £29/month over 2 years here in the UK is a good deal? It's like paying for a mid range phone contract. I personally see the attraction as there's probably a lot of games I would possibly feel like trying out but I wouldn't pay the full price for them. And with all the games available that come with this package, via game pass, it's actually not a bad option, I think. Also, I guess it would be a solid box hooked up to your 4k TV for all things TV related.
#5855817
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I'll never buy the original release of a console again after having my ps3 repaired twice and choosing to just buy a new one after the 3rd time it died I got the slim one.
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metagamer:

Anyone else thinks that getting a Series X for whatever it is... £29/month over 2 years here in the UK is a good deal? It's like paying for a mid range phone contract. I personally see the attraction as there's probably a lot of games I would possibly feel like trying out but I wouldn't pay the full price for them. And with all the games available that come with this package, via game pass, it's actually not a bad option, I think. Also, I guess it would be a solid box hooked up to your 4k TV for all things TV related.
It's not a zero percent loan like a phone plan is; it's an actual loan that you have to qualify for, and it has interest so you end up paying more than retail. Overall, it's not a bad deal, less interest than you'd pay if you put it on an average credit card. It's still better to buy outright and pay no interest at all if you can, though.
#5855831
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The money shot has to be whats in that wooden crate 🙄
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illrigger:

It's not a zero percent loan like a phone plan is; it's an actual loan that you have to qualify for, and it has interest so you end up paying more than retail. Overall, it's not a bad deal, less interest than you'd pay if you put it on an average credit card. It's still better to buy outright and pay no interest at all if you can, though.
Let me do some quick maths... Game Pass Ultimate over 24 months = 10.99*24 = £263.76 Console price when bought outright = £449.99 Buying the console outright and then getting Game Pass Ultimate for 2 years = £713.75 Getting the Xbox All Access package, which is the console + Game Pass Ultimate for 2 years = £695.76 (28.99*24) It's not 0% loan. It's cheaper than 0% loan.
#5855849
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Kevin Mauro:

Let me unpack that. Smoke. Would have melted the case. There would have been a fire. Actually, contrary to popular belief where there's smoke there isn't always fire. smol·der·ing /ˈsmōldəriNG/ Learn to pronounce noun the process of burning slowly with smoke but no flame.
smoldering would still have melted the case.
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Kool64:

smoldering would still have melted the case.
Not if the metal surround spread the heat over its whole area.
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nehaxak:

Looks real to me, looks exactly like what @Picolete mentioned. I've had ASrock motherboards literally go on fire before (twice) with as much if not more smoke than in that picture and had enough time to pick up my phone and take a picture, all of 5 seconds that takes. Not sure why there's so many idiots ragging on the poor guy it happened too.
A few years ago, I had a GTX460 catch fire. I created a thread about it. Most of the posts in that thread were accusations and insults. Even after I posted pictures of the damage, the accusations and insults continued. Even MSI admitted that the card itself was at fault for the fire.....but that didn't stop the stupidity. Some people just can't get past the fact that they don't know WTF happened or why, so they start talking shit....
Kool64:

that amount of smoke would have melted the bottom of the case as there would have to have been a serious amount of fire.
When my first Athlon XP 2000 burned out, it produced a crap ton of smoke with no fire.....
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sykozis:

A few years ago, I had a GTX460 catch fire. I created a thread about it. Most of the posts in that thread were accusations and insults. Even after I posted pictures of the damage, the accusations and insults continued. Even MSI admitted that the card itself was at fault for the fire.....but that didn't stop the stupidity. Some people just can't get past the fact that they don't know WTF happened or why, so they start talking crap.... When my first Athlon XP 2000 burned out, it produced a crap ton of smoke with no fire.....
no point trying with them, they don't have much if any experience with electrical faults.
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Astyanax:

no point trying with them, they don't have much if any experience with electrical faults.
Yeah, I know....it's like beating my head against a wall.....
#5855883
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The console crashing seems to be related to either call of Duty cold War or the disc. All my digital games run without issues, call of Duty multi-player crashes the console after few minutes. When I was installing it through the disc it made a little noise from time to time. Bit of rattling sound, but it did not give any errors during installation.
#5855886
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Well,why don't you smoke a whole carton of cigarettes !
#5856013
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If that's a vape ... Is from amatures ... 50 watts on my coil and my juice normally is vg (vegetable glycerol)and i can easily triple that 😛
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So the guy who posted the original Xbox smoking video gets a new console and an apology from Xbox Poland. They also ask the community to stop with bullying and sending death threats to smoking Xbox owners. And yet... you STILL think its fake?! LOL whats going on here.
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Fox2232:

Who is to say that it can't be fake? Like if MS told client outright that he faked it => Very bad PR. New console => Happy Faces and trust. But it could still be fake which sadly damaged console.
ohh... anything is possible. i get it. But I'm more into what's reasonably expected. As opposed to theoretically possible. I am just trying to make sure I got things right. Smoking XBox - > death threats and bullying -> XBox Poland confirms the issue with the original smoking XBox, issues replacement -> Still fake. I mean in my mind XBox Poland's statement is enough to at least suspend my judgment.

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