Xbox 360 Development Kits Stolen in Germany

October 10th 2005 | Games Consoles

Platform holder Microsoft may face a new piracy threat, as reports surface of ten Xbox 360 development kits being stolen from a warehouse in Duren, Germany, with the hardware believed to have fallen into the hands of hackers.

A few days after the shipment went ‘missing’, photographs of the kits appeared on the Internet, with the serial numbers edited out. Police raids in Austria and Germany recovered three of the units, but seven kits remain untraced at present as the investigation continues.

In a recent interview with Gamespot.com, Microsoft’s chief executive J Allard suggested that piracy on the new 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.

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Xbox 360 Development Kits Stolen in Germany
Published in: Games Consoles on 2005-10-10