Ok, I don't know if anyone is still having any problems with this, but here is my experience thus far: I moved for three school years to the UK, and I already had an American Xbox. So I researched and didn't want to have to buy and risk a poor quality stepdown converter. I'm not sure why I decided to, but I ultimately purchased a UK power brick with a 200 something voltage input from Amazon.co.uk. I plugged this in directly like you normally would (no stepdown converter or transformer) and never had a problem. Then my old xbox died after a considerable time of use, as the result of a hardware failure, not the power. So now I'm getting a 360 S and going to try the same thing basically and see how that goes. I can confirm that, at least in the UK, simply buying a full UK power brick and cord will suffice for the original 360 without overheating or frying your console. I'll try to remember to update once I know the results of my 360 S experiment. Hopefully this will straightforward answer the questions from those who, like myself, were sick of researching for stepdown converters and people saying it wouldn't work with the most obvious solution. Good luck
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