I've all but forsaken my PS3 due to my PC and new console, but The Last of Us has had me interested all year. I might just have to linger over to my PS3 another time.
I always heard Jeff made some decent coin on the Whiskey sale, why does he still have a roommate at his age? Unless... unless Jeff is taking in male suitors. :o
California is really expensive for one. He's probably saving a lot of money doing like he does. He has a nice car too. Not everyone needs a crazy pad, especially if your house is mainly videogame storage and a place to play video games.
In particular, the Bay area. Obviously the closer you are to SF, the more expensive, but the Bay area in general is costly. What you pay for a studio/1 bedroom would net you an easily payable mortgage on a 4 bedroom house in other places.
Seriously though, videogame storage house is pretty accurate.
@autobarn: Thanks for the suggestion, man. I actually did try that during my troubleshooting list with the Microsoft representative, but it didn't work. I guess mine was truly dead.
@jackel2072: Glad you found a resolution. The experience overall was pretty straightforward, but the time it took was much too long. I agree that the advance exchange is good, though. Hopefully not too many people will have to use it! ;)
@jackel2072: Hey Jackal. I finally did get my issue resolved; however it took a substantial amount of time discussing with Microsoft support. I followed all of the troubleshooting suggested online and by Microsoft customer support, but nothing brought my Kinect back to life. I ended up doing an advance exchange with my Kinect, so I now I have a brand new one. It's working fine, just as the original one was in the beginning. This is apparently a known issue because Microsoft support was not surprised or caught off guard at all by my particular issue with the Kinect.
Hopefully this new Kinect will have longevity and won't just suddenly turn off and not come back on like the other one. I can't say I experienced the exact same problem you're having since mine never turned off and then came back on after troubleshooting. Unlike yours though, my Kinect was completely unresponsive (no lights, fans, or sensors).
It had been working perfectly fine up until this point--voice controls have not been going haywire like for some people--but all of the sudden, poof. Trying one final complete reboot to see if I can get it to work, but I'm not optimistic. I have a launch Xbox 360 that used up until the 22nd, and Xbox One gives way less than 2 weeks in.
I think I am in the same boat as you. I've been using my Xbox One since launch day and now all of the sudden my Kinect turned off and won't restart. The system doesn't recognize it and keeps displaying a "Kinect is unplugged" error message. I've followed all of the troubleshooting suggested on the Xbox support forums, but it looks like this is a known issue--according to accounts online. I've even restored my system to factory settings hoping it would force an update that might resuscitate it (since some have said it's a software issue), but it looks like it might be a hardware issue indeed since it's not being recognized at all.
I am not happy at all with this. Xbox support will be receiving a call since nothing seems to bring it back.
Saw this come through via Twitter on my phone, and I was really bummed. Like others said, he wasn't the greatest actor, but I appreciated his acting. I'll miss seeing him in movies, and he seemed like a good guy off-camera too.
I haven't had any problems whatsoever with the Kinect. As a matter of fact, I've been using the voice commands exclusively for navigating the dashboard. I consistently turn the system (along with everything else connected) on and off utilizing the voice commands, and it works perfectly fine. Every now and then it will misunderstand a command--such as thinking I said "pause" instead of "off"--but that probably just comes down to enunciating a little better.
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