With any new product launch there are bound to be a few mishaps - with the hardware and the customers trying to buy the blasted thing. The Xbox 360 is no exception.

Some users are already complaining about the console heating up to near Sun temperature, and making a much louder fan noise than expected (even more than the original Xbox? Oh my...)

Others are reporting even more worrying issues - Some Xbox consoles are freezing up mid game and other systems are just refusing to start!

On the Team Xbox forums a thread dedicated to 360 problems has over 300 replies so far and over 109,000 views.

Elsewhere, people have become impatient getting hold of the wonder games machine:

Shoppers waiting in line for the new Xbox 360 video game player scuffled outside a Wal-Mart Supercenter when a manager improvised rules for who would get the game first. It took more than 10 police officers to restore order, though no one was arrested.