Xbox 360 Delayed. Say It Isnt So!
A listener of our show today, sent me links to a bunch of thread posts(thanks Joseph). Basically in short the rumour is 23rd of March is the new release date.
Here they are:
http://www.xboxworld.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=41416
http://www.xboxzone.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4420
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/xbox-360/xbox-360-delayed-in-australia-149903.php
http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1962080
Now i am with you, forum posts are not the most reliable source of information (though some intresting things certainly leak that way, on a side note i was trolling the Duke nukem forever website but still nothing damn those tight lipped sonofabitchs). However also consider the reliablity of Microsoft, its well documented their shortages in the states and europe, do they really have enough to spare for us?
On to the supposed facts, firstly the Chief editor of the Offical Aussie Xbox magazine made a post on some forums saying that he had offical word that *confidential* information has slipped out of retail supply chains about the delay. Intrestingly enough this post, and several other related ones, have been pulled from the forums(Derwent Howard forums, the people who run/publish the offical Xbox Mag also offical ps2 damn they must be good at towing the company line to publish two offical mags) but not before the word went out to other forums. Also a thread was started on Derwent Howard forums, to answer peoples questions about the missing posts, simply by it being stated that to find out what happend you must pm the post owner. http://forums.derwenthoward.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=3173, currently i am waiting for a pm back. Now this did happen a couple days ago but is only now starting to spread faster (as noted by this blog post,TGS there just as soon as shit starts blowing up).
Secondly, one of the links (http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1962080) has a post from a supposed employee of the gaming chain GameRush(owned by blockbuster i think) who says they recieved a email (the most trusted form of communication) from headoffice today(the day he made the posted Saturday 21st, is the slow spread due to it being a weekend?) saying that the xbox 360 release date was being changed to 23 of march and that it has been changed in the systems. He also goes on to add that now his store is going to/or have started calling all the customers with pre-orders to let them know. Apparently he thinks GameRush will offer some preorder compensation for the delay. Some other posts in the thread claim to have heard claims from other stores (eb in one i bothered to read).
True? I honestly dont know? Likely yes!Rumour reliablity dubious at best, after a couple days you would expect it to have broken, however they be waiting until early next week to organise a press release.
So please go ahead read the threads, google your hearts out, speculate like crazy. Ill post updates when and if i recieve them, but until then let me leave you with one universal truth “You wont know until you know”