Xbox Manufacturing Process

Discussion in 'General Gaming' started by atomiX, Oct 1, 2005.

  1. atomiX

    atomiX Guest

    I just though some might be interested to take a look at a bunch of pictures from the early days of the Xbox mfg process. These were taken in one of the first plants located in Hungary. They are now made in China to reduce costs.

    LINK on xbox-linux.org

    Enjoy!
     
  2. PhantasyStar

    PhantasyStar Well Known Member

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    Thanks for the link mate. Crazy how much work that takes.
     
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    nice :)
     
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    That makes it to my list of top ten places to never work...ever
     
  6. RPA

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    Wait a minute...why are all the workers white people? I thought MS made them outside the US?
     
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    Divine Evolution Peppy Member

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    Vlad the Impaler

    Are you expecting to see Asians?
    Like atomiX said "These were taken in one of the first plants located in Hungary."
     
  8. XerdoPwerko

    XerdoPwerko Galaxy Angel Fanatic Extreme - Mediocre collector.

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    They did a round of Xbox manufacturing in Flextronics in Guadalajara. Many of the engineers that graduated or were about to graduate from my university oversaw this process, and got Xboxes quite early because of that. They don't make them here anymore, either.
     
  9. RPA

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    Yea I heard initially they were all made in Mexico but that obviously isn't true.
     
  10. Putzi

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    Wow thats cool, I wonder if anyone ever got an xbox with an install/refresh disk in it?
     
  11. gaming247

    gaming247 Site Supporter 2015

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    yeah I agree, somehow that job would take all the fun out of the xbox. I doubt anyone wants to go home and play one after spending 8-12 hours (or whatever their shifts are) on an assembly "line" making/testing them.
     
  12. atomiX

    atomiX Guest

    I'm sure there were. Those can easily be found on ebay. Even other types of disks were forgotten in them ;).
     
  13. wombat

    wombat SEGA!

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    nice to see the whole production of the xbox there at the plant! nice!
     
  14. SuperGrafx

    SuperGrafx Guest

    Hah, a little bit of deja vu. I saw those same pics a few years ago, and yep, my first launch day Xbox was one of the Hungarian made ones.

    To make the supply chain somewhat efficient in the early days was build the first few units in Hungary and Mexico. The Hungarian models were mostly shipped to the east coast of the US in time for launch and the the Mexican-made units were used to supply the central and western portions of the US.
     
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    Mr. Casual Champion of the Forum

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    I also thought most of the Xboxes were made in Mexico, but this is just one factory...
     
  16. Zilog Jones

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    I guess the Flextronics plant here in Limerick was too cool for Xboxes - either that or the minimum wage here is too high ^_^
     
  17. virtual alan

    virtual alan Officer at Arms

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    Don`t they make/case all the games? as a bulk of PAL games have made in IRELAND on them
     
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    Very nice, thx for the link.


    ^_^_^
     
  19. Zilog Jones

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    Oh yeah, forgot about that. A lot of Microsoft discs and packaging seem to be done here - I don't think it's Flextronics doing that stuff though.
     
  20. RyanGamerGoneGrazy

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    in this day and age of technology, its interesting to see people hand assembling the units...amazed it wasnt just all automated,....
     
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