Alleged 'Xbox 720' dev box eBay'd for $20,100 Would you buy an Xbox 720 development kit for 20 grand? Someone just has - paying in dollars rather than sterling, of course - after the "Microsoft Xbox Durango Development Kit" appeared on eBay last night. Durango Xbox development kit After 43 bids, the non-descript black tower system, said by the seller to contain an Intel …
Is that allowed at all? Seems to me that it would be a cinch for MS/Sony/etc. to put a clause on the software license that it's not to be transferred. And then you end up with a PC with some funny cards in it that don't do anything.
I'd be more suspicious about the legality of this purchase even if it were real, rather than whether the auction actually is real or not.
"Is that allowed at all? Seems to me that it would be a cinch for MS/Sony/etc. to put a clause on the software license that it's not to be transferred."
I don't know about the US, but in Europe software can be resold, google "oracle software license resale" for info on a previous failed attempt by Oracle to stop this.
"I don't know about the US, but in Europe software can be resold, google "oracle software license resale" for info on a previous failed attempt by Oracle to stop this."
It's likely that whoever got their hands on this kit from MS had to sign a pretty hefty NDA to get it, so while you're right in that you can re-sell software licences, this won't have been a purchase from MS.
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"This listing was ended by the seller because the item was sold"
You normally see a message about bidding has ended, so looks like the seller is claiming to have sold it offline. Perhaps the account was set up as a joke - it is his first listing, then got his mates to bid it up to a stupid price.
Xbox 360 has sold 67.2 million units as of April 19, 2012 with around 25 million of those sales being in the US. Sure that's a big number but hardly neglected by the rest of the world. Here in good old blighty around 5 million units have sold! So that's one Xbox360 for roughly every 4 households.
You do nothing for your argument with these troll like flame statements, sure you might prefer PS3, plenty of people do, but that doesn't mean you are right and those who disagree are wrong. The fact is all platforms have their merits and disadvantages a more mature approach is to recognise this fact rather than coming from the point of view that “xbox is shite” and “PS3 is awesome!” were that the case it wouldn’t have sold more units than your beloved PS3 (63.9 Million units sold as of March 31, 2012). Still me thinks that posting with such venom perhaps you need to keep reassuring yourself that you spent your cash on the right platform, rather than just enjoying what you’ve got with confidence.
Wow, 67.2m braindead consumers that would buy any old shite if Microsoft tell them too.
I won't even bother pointing out the 16 month headstart and lower pricepoint the XBox had and squandered, or the RROD fiasco that earnt it top place by a long shot in the most unreliable consumer item of all time (60% failure rate).
With all the last-gen features and abysmal reliability and costly addons and online play it didn't deserve 6.7m let online 10x that. The XBox360 had held back a whole generation of gamers with it's PS2 era DVD drive and split HDD/non HDD userbase.
Lets say this is legit - that some one bought a fully working 720 SDK box - would that give the homebrew / modding community any real advantage if this box (or its secrets) fell into their hands? I'd like to think this is some sort of finding the Holy Grail eureka moment, but I bet there are enough tricks up Micro$oft's sleeves to negate whatever they may learn.
Speaking of next Gen consoles, the rumor is the PS3 has two unused GPUs in it, and that they can be "activated" with a software update push, should $ony decide to implement it. What's the deal with that? will we see that happen before the PS4 arrives?
The PS3 has 8 SPE cores, only 6 of which are available to applications (games). One of the other cores is permanently assigned to running the OS. The last spare core has been deactivated to increase yields of the Cell processor.
There isn't really anything for Sony to 'activate with a software push'. Technically it might be possible to unlock the 8th core on some PS3s but only a minority would work correctly. There'd not be much point though because no software dev is going to make use of an extra core that only a small percentage of PS3s have. It just wouldn't be worth the time and effort.
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