Limited edition 'Modern Warfare 2' Xbox 360 unboxing
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Nov 11th 2009 2:27PM
posted Nov 11th 2009 2:27PM
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Ok guys, don't make him mad or he'll ban you. Keep all your comments to how jealous you are of the awesome power of engadget.
Meh. It's a games console. I'm not jea
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No need to be jealous. Mine was delivered yesterday from Amazon. To celebrate I took my old 2006 360 out back and put 20 rounds of .223 in it.
@Rubbinz:
I'm sure there are better ammo cases than an old 360 and surely you could fit more than 20 rounds into it.
Can we all just pretend that I'm not jealous? :'(
we feel sorry for you
Already got mine Monday night/Tuesday morning, and the ebay auction on the Jasper Arcade it's replacing is up to 163.00 and ends in just under an hour. She was a good'n, but I just couldn't say no to that 250 gig HDD.
Ordered mine from Bestbuy yesterday. Just waiting for it to come in the mail. It'll be my first Xbox as well; looks to be worth the cost!
@Rubbinz:
You should post pictures of your handy work.
We're not balanced for jealousy.
And that HTC HD2 review just keeps getting bumped back...
Though for CoD MW2 I can be forgiving. :)
First!
Pick this up yesterday and it's definitely an awesome console especially as a first xbox!
Picked up one Tuesday morning as well. It's a beautiful piece of hardware, and it's nice to have that huge hard drive in there.
Now let's hope it doesn't red ring like my original did!
Call me old school but I was never into "Warfare". But, good news for the Warfare lovers...
Not trying to start an argument here, but what happens if you get the RRoD? Will they send you another MW2 Edition console, or just a regular black Elite console?
new 360s don't RRoD, troll
Although streetfights is right, I do want to know if you would get the CoD model if for some reason MS had to replace the console.
My 'Halo 3' 360 RRoD'd and they repaired it.
Your right, they don't RRoD, they get E74. :/
Most consoles which MS "repairs" just have a new mobo thrown in. So you'd still have the MW2 case, just a refurbished motherboard inside.
If you tell them to repair rather than replace you get your same console back - that's how we handled it. Same serial number when it came home. Anyway, they would have to send you back the same model you sent them anyway.
Recession anecdote? :)
I think you mean 'antidote', unless you mean that getting a Limited Edition console to play with is an amusing side story to the recession... ;)
Recession anecdote: tales of modern warfare
god I hope but I'll go to the other guy's shameless promotion too.
Then again, my version wasn't touched by Josh Topolsky.
I'm pretty sure that bumps up the approximate value 200%.
I'm not particularly jealous, although I would like my Elite to have the same design. Hopefully the thing doesn't red ring for you guys.
I'm pretty jealous, I'll admit it.
Clearly we know what 'joint' task force many gamers will be a part of those long multiplayer nights...
Wasn't there some night vision goggles with this special edition too? I remember reading something about that here a while back.
This is the console, the NVGs come with the Prestige Edition of the game. The design of the console is slick, much prefer the dark grey over the black to be honest.
Can i just say, photo 10 is the most useless photo ever.
We call that the Facebook/MySpace angle.
and its upside down...
Hey I am a PS3 fanboy but that is one sexy looking console :))
Forgot to add, I want one :))
Got mine yesterday. It's my first XBOX 360 ever.
And certainly not your last.
Can't say I didn't see that one coming.
I think he means you will want two cuz these are so awesome ;) The new chipsets use smaller manufacturing processes so they do not over heat.
Haha. I did notice that it didn't really get hot and it was also pretty quiet. Contrary to previous complaints I've heard about the 360.
I think the new ones are a lot quieter than the older ones. The one I got back from repair a year ago sounds like a jet engine, despite being in closed (fan-cooled) cabinet. I can't even watch movies with it, have to use the PS3 for that.
The newer one is much quieter. The ROM drive seems to be less quiet, and less buzzing in general when playing off the HD.
Wow I wasn't aware that it came equipped with a 250gb hdd!
Keep it holstered, soldier.
Awesome deal huh? Definitely had to pick me up one of these and not regretting it at all.
Normal Elite - $300
Extra Wireless Controller - $50
MW2 Game - $60
Humongous Sized Hard Drive - $??? (not even available alone yet)
All for $400 (not to mention the sweet MW2 console design, smaller/cooler power brick/quieter DVD drive)
So long non-HDMI, RRoD prone, Launch Console.
My feelings exactly. 3 selling points on this new one since i have an old one:
Mines out of warranty
My 20 gig HDD is full
This one has HDMI for my 42 inch plasma.
Was a PS3 fan till now .....no more
All I care about is the 250GB HDD which I already have and didn't have to pay the premium for the console.
How'd you manage that? Someone Forza 3 bundle buyer in the UK not need their HDD?
Nah, you can do some firmware trickery with some other 3rd party hard drives. I'm not getting into specifics but it's not horribly difficult. Only cost me like 60 bucks to do. If you google around it's pretty easy to find out how to do it.