James Delahunty
11 Oct 2005 15:24
The hunt continues in Europe for some of the ten Xbox 360 development kits that were stolen from a German Warehouse as Microsoft fears they may have fallen into the hands of hackers. A shipment of ten dev kits were delivered to a warehouse in Germany in unmarked packaging. They were to be distributed to developers who could use them to create games for the console. However, the shipment went missing and photographs of the kits with the serial numbers removed surfaced on the Internet.
An investigation has already recovered three from several raids in Austria and Germany, but the other seven haven't turned up yet. The first Xbox console was plagued by modifications and piracy. It's easy to purchase modchips for the console to bypass security measures. J Allard, Microsoft's Chief Executive, told Gamespot that piracy on the Xbox 360 console was a given, which the company has already accounted for.
"The philosophy that we applied on 360 is 'It's going to happen'," he said. He hinted that the bypassing of security on the 360 console was less important from a financial perspective but was a significant threat to online multiplayer game experience to genuine customers. The console will be released in Europe on December 2nd 2005.
Source:
Eurogamer