So my friend got an Xbox Arcade for his birthday. He wanted to use it primarily as a Media Center Extender, so the Arcade SKU made sense. When he opened it and tried to set it up, however, he discovered that the power cable they provided was not compatible with the Xbox SKU he’d received. It could literally not be plugged in (there was a difference in the middle section of the cable that didn’t match the middle section of the socket on the Xbox unit).
We took the Xbox back to the Big Box retailer and customer service told us it was the second one they’d had returned for that reason (I forgot to ask in how long, but it was in the rep’s recent memory).
There as no other Arcade SKU in stock, so we “upgraded” the Pro SKU, which had the same power cable as the Arcade, but a different socket on the Xbox unit which accepted it just fine (we checked in-store before leaving with it).
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