Dont DO it!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY> SAVE YOU FRUSTRATION FOR SOMETHIN ELSE. The 360 is a pos and is the most horrid peice of engineerimg I have ever seen. The thing breaks if you look at it wrong. I have been through 3 already and I treated really well and had in an refridgerated air conditioned room and it still croaked and for another I boutgh the disc tray stopped working so it would not read discs.
I would advise to put the cash into a pc or a ps3, wii or wait till they are reliable if that day ever comes.
The sad thing is that when yoours breaks you are forced into a never ending repair process. Since july I have had to send the refurbs back 2 times because of the same issue as the others.
The games may be great but it is not worth it at all. As much as I paid for the actual time played it is really not worth the several hundred dollar investment considering most 360s break with in the first year.
As a not I have been in the repair process since september 06 and I just sent the pos in again on the 9th of october.
SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR SOMTHING THAT WILL WORK FOR YEARS NOT MONTHS,
ive had my 360 for over a year no problems WHAT A FARKIN POS nah not really. i had my wii for 10 months its been 7 months since ive used it, my lil cousin uses it once in a while so it doesnt collect dust. PS3 hmm for what? maybe later
Wanna sell that wii? j.k. Seriously though you are lucky then but time will tell they did not give the 3yr extension because its a good peice of engineering now did they.
I got my 360 at launch. I've had no problems with it whatsoever. But then again, I'm not an idiot. I know that electronics need ventilation, and not to be stuffed in a closet.
IF I had a PS3, I would never play it...I HAVE a Wii and never play it...I have a gaming PC and don't use it to play games...my 360 gets all the play time...Yea, it has problems, but there's a new version out there right now that supposed to fix most of the problems.
I've had an Xbox for over a year...and I've had to send it in once...and yea it was a pain...but Halo 3 and Orange Box sooooooooooooo make it worth it!
I have a release day xbox and a release day elite. Both work great and have never failed. Sure...they recognized a problem by extending the warranty but there are still plenty of us that never had a problem.
Dude you just ahve very bad luck. i've had my x-box for over a year and the only problem i had was with GHII which is supposedly made like a piece of junk and intended to break. The system itself works great. When I bought mine I got the extended 3 year warranty from Best Buy, it only cost me $50 and I already got most of it back cause my original controller broke. And it was no hassle i just went to the store and they gave me a brand new one.
The Helo effect may be over but i heard something about Gears 2 which will probably maintain the high sales for 360.
The Wii is as people mentioned on this blog is just not entertaining in the long term. The basic fact is that console companies make money from gaming licenses not from the console itself. So you have the Wii which outsels 360 and PS3 combined. But majority of Wii players are not hardcore gamers. They buy the Wii and maybe, just maybe they will buy one or more game on top. So for most of the time it sits there collecting dust. While X-box and PS3 gamers on average will spend over several hundred dollars per year on games. So figure it out, in a few years, once the Wii craze is over, Nintendo is not going to be the big winner in the end. Either way i would not spend money on a game that gives me the same graphics that I could get from my old X-box
The PS3 is a great and powerful system, but it costs to much and still has pretty much no games worth mentioning.
With regard to Vista and never trusted any Win OS, it was only when XP SP2 came out that I finally switched over from 98 SP2, it XP does work great. With that note also I would not upgrade to IE7. I use a lot of web based tools for my job and none of them work in the new explorer, one main example is the official Microsoft Web Outlook.
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Dont DO it!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY> SAVE YOU FRUSTRATION FOR SOMETHIN ELSE. The 360 is a pos and is the most horrid peice of engineerimg I have ever seen. The thing breaks if you look at it wrong. I have been through 3 already and I treated really well and had in an refridgerated air conditioned room and it still croaked and for another I boutgh the disc tray stopped working so it would not read discs.
I would advise to put the cash into a pc or a ps3, wii or wait till they are reliable if that day ever comes.
The sad thing is that when yoours breaks you are forced into a never ending repair process. Since july I have had to send the refurbs back 2 times because of the same issue as the others.
The games may be great but it is not worth it at all. As much as I paid for the actual time played it is really not worth the several hundred dollar investment considering most 360s break with in the first year.
As a not I have been in the repair process since september 06 and I just sent the pos in again on the 9th of october.
SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR SOMTHING THAT WILL WORK FOR YEARS NOT MONTHS,
ive had my 360 for over a year no problems WHAT A FARKIN POS nah not really. i had my wii for 10 months its been 7 months since ive used it, my lil cousin uses it once in a while so it doesnt collect dust. PS3 hmm for what? maybe later
Wanna sell that wii? j.k. Seriously though you are lucky then but time will tell they did not give the 3yr extension because its a good peice of engineering now did they.
I got my 360 at launch. I've had no problems with it whatsoever. But then again, I'm not an idiot. I know that electronics need ventilation, and not to be stuffed in a closet.
IF I had a PS3, I would never play it...I HAVE a Wii and never play it...I have a gaming PC and don't use it to play games...my 360 gets all the play time...Yea, it has problems, but there's a new version out there right now that supposed to fix most of the problems.
I've had an Xbox for over a year...and I've had to send it in once...and yea it was a pain...but Halo 3 and Orange Box sooooooooooooo make it worth it!
I have a release day xbox and a release day elite. Both work great and have never failed. Sure...they recognized a problem by extending the warranty but there are still plenty of us that never had a problem.
Dude you just ahve very bad luck. i've had my x-box for over a year and the only problem i had was with GHII which is supposedly made like a piece of junk and intended to break. The system itself works great. When I bought mine I got the extended 3 year warranty from Best Buy, it only cost me $50 and I already got most of it back cause my original controller broke. And it was no hassle i just went to the store and they gave me a brand new one.
The Helo effect may be over but i heard something about Gears 2 which will probably maintain the high sales for 360.
The Wii is as people mentioned on this blog is just not entertaining in the long term. The basic fact is that console companies make money from gaming licenses not from the console itself. So you have the Wii which outsels 360 and PS3 combined. But majority of Wii players are not hardcore gamers. They buy the Wii and maybe, just maybe they will buy one or more game on top. So for most of the time it sits there collecting dust. While X-box and PS3 gamers on average will spend over several hundred dollars per year on games. So figure it out, in a few years, once the Wii craze is over, Nintendo is not going to be the big winner in the end. Either way i would not spend money on a game that gives me the same graphics that I could get from my old X-box
The PS3 is a great and powerful system, but it costs to much and still has pretty much no games worth mentioning.
With regard to Vista and never trusted any Win OS, it was only when XP SP2 came out that I finally switched over from 98 SP2, it XP does work great. With that note also I would not upgrade to IE7. I use a lot of web based tools for my job and none of them work in the new explorer, one main example is the official Microsoft Web Outlook.