Where did you find out this?  Where did you get a system to test it against?

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I have a feeling you may be wrong.

Pay attention to an Xbox blogger (he is big at Xbox).

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I don’t see a source for your information or even an explanation as to why you might have even a good guess about this.

How do you know what you claim to know? If you’re wrong, it will be pretty rotten if people just start passing this link around as fact.

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wrong.. pictures of it on a 360 here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/majornelson/sets/1172633/

E3 Faceplates WILL fit the Xbox 360
Posted: October 19, 2005 @ 11:37 am (29 minutes ago) By: Major Nelson

From the ‘why does this keep coming up’ department: There is some false information floating around that the limited edition faceplates that we gave away at E3 don’t fit the Xbox 360. I’m not sure how folks can confirm that since there are no retail units available to anyone outside of the Xbox team, but I am happy to report that the special limited edition E3 faceplates fit the final retail Xbox 360 just fine. I tested it. It works. Perhaps the person who tried to attach it was working with one of our dev kits, or pre-production units. I have uploaded some photos I just took of my faceplate on an actual retail Xbox 360 to disprove this rumor that keeps resurfacing. As you can see from the photos…the E3 faceplate fits perfectly. Let this rumor die once and for all please.

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Andru cut the part out that I saw it on G4TV.com

Usually a pretty credible source. But it seems someone proved them wrong…

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First of all dont ever listen to G4 and second of all that 800 $ faceplate was for 1/5000 in 5-10 years unopend people would pay 2000 $ for that faceplate on ebay, I for one bought mine for 100 $ american on ebay.

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Major Nelson,

You should give Geoff Keighley at G4TV.com a ring and set him straight on this.  In one of their shows a couple of weeks ago, they had a “True or False” segment, where they ask callers to answer whether a particular statement is true or false. 

Geoff had an E3 Xbox 360 faceplate in his hand and stated that the limited edition faceplates given out at E3 do not fit the final production Xbox 360, true or false?  The caller said false, which I thought was correct since why in the hell would Microsoft go through all of the trouble of producing and giving out faceplates that don’t even fit the Xbox 360?  Well, he told the caller that he was wrong, the answer is true since the E3 faceplates are too large to fit on the face of the final production Xbox 360.

I’m not sure how many people watch G4TV but I do (via TiVO, of course) and this is where I heard about it.

Cheers,

JimyD

P.S. Good stuff on your Flickr site.

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I told you someone would say something.

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Yo. I got mine on ebay for $150. Soon they will go off on ebay for $500-1000 so get yours soon!! and then sell it when they are selling for top doller! well anyway they will fit microsoft is not stupid enough to not have there giveaway faceplate not fit. Lol

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