Not interested in a 360 Slim? How about this rare, 2005 launch model?

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Around this time each year, we find ourselves buying peculiar things -- fruit cakes and pine trees and ... Madagascar Kartz -- but we never expected we'd have a chance to buy a new Xbox 360 ... from 2005! Not just any old '05 360, mind you, but a 2005 Launch Team console -- available to bid on (in Australian dollars!) on eBay.

As noted in the auction listing, the launch consoles were only given to folks "intimately involved in designing the console," and the one in question is still functioning, surprisingly. ("The console was last used around September or October of 2008 and was reading discs and playing games fine before being packed away," the listing claims.)

We might normally warn against the danger of buying a launch Xbox 360 given the ubiquity of that model's failure rate, but we're guessing this baby's gonna get mounted on a wall somewhere rather than actually be expected to play games. At least, we're hoping ... for your sake, you crazy person who wins the auction. check read more for the ebay link

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220696794172

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InFRaHPosted:

its proabably a jtagable

SecretsPosted:

-DRIFT- If I had the money I'd buy it. Wouldn't play on it though. Simply a display console :D


I'd sell it for more and make money.

-DRIFT-Posted:

If I had the money I'd buy it. Wouldn't play on it though. Simply a display console :D

NetflixPosted:

if it was last played in 2008, it could be jtagged:)

i_JaMes_zPosted:

Nice bit of kit - it it was JTagged the irony would be supreme :P

IPunkPosted:

Looks go good... but so expensive at 1Grand :P

BuncezPosted:

The person who wins this bid is Insane in the Brain!

iAmMasterFPosted:

ITS A LAUNCH CONSOLE

it will probs gets 3 red rings in the 1st 5 mins :D

and its wayyy past its 3 years rrod cover :D

iAmMasterFPosted:

hope its not been updated... cuz i wud jtag that biatch :)

YizzyPosted:

That thing is beautiful, truly a work of art. To bad its already at 1g