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The console is good while it works. After getting the 3 red lights and breaking for the second time with two different consoles in a bit longer than 1 year, I am buying a PS3.
Next time I suggest they make some research to make the videogame more reliable.
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Flimsy manufacturing, heavy and bulky. You have to pay for XBOX online as opposed to the PS3 which is free. You don't get HDMI standard on all models or wifi. The only redeeming thing about this console is some games which predated the PS3 and most of them will be available shortly on the PS3 (BioShock most notably).
Halo 3 was disappointing and there is high failure rate (about half of the people I know with one have had hardware issues). Also no Blu-ray with this. Just save your money on all those extras and get the PS3.
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I had a hamster once. He cost about $10 and lived for not quite six months. I felt bad for the little guy, but I also understood that short lives are the way of hamsters. Short lives should not be the way of enormously expensive pieces of electronic equipment.
I held off on getting an Xbox 360 for a long time after launch because of the high number of hardware failures reported for the system, especially after one of my friends had to return his Xbox for service -SIX TIMES- within a year. After Microsoft announced that the new "Falcon" chip set would virtually ensure a long service life for new 360s, my girlfriend spent almost $400 to get me one as a birthday gift. It died yesterday, after 10 months of intermittent use, giving me the delightful three light "Red Ring of Death" as it expired. Granted, Microsoft has extended the warranty for the Xbox 360 to 3 years for "RROD" issues, and thus even as I type this a free shipping box is en route to me so my dead machine can take a trip to Texas, but widespread catastrophic hardware failures are ridiculous no matter how you slice it. The best part is that my own Xbox won't be returned to me - instead I'll get someone else's dead Xbox that has also been returned and subsequently repaired. It's even possible that instead of getting back a machine with the relatively robust Falcon hardware, I could get back a machine using one of the two previous (and much less stable) hardware configurations. To say that I'm concerned in an understatement.
WHEN IT WORKS the Xbox 360 is an excellent gaming system that features stunning graphics, a large game library, and a solid online experience (Though in all honesty I'd rather play with my friends in my own living room than with random strangers.) As of 2 days ago I'd have easily rated the console a solid 4 stars (Not five - the need to sink another $100 on a wireless device to connect to the internet and the annoying high cost for peripherals and software counts against it.), but as of tonight I feel as if I'm being generous to rate it with 2. You should never have to qualify a statement about an extremely expensive piece of equipment with "when it works".
Even worse is that Microsoft hasn't been forthcoming with consumers about the cause of all these "general hardware failures". They're apparently caused by the system overheating, but I'm not in any sense a hardcore gamer and I don't go on marathon gaming binges. My machine got maybe 3-5 hours of play per week and sat in a well-ventilated area (A "framework" style shelf that has neither sides nor a back in order to provide the console with maximum airflow.). Despite recommendations by some other users, I'm unwilling to buy an external fan for two reasons: 1.) I don't feel as if a consumer should have to spend extra money on a peripheral to ensure that a product will actually function as advertised and 2.) These external cooling fans have also been reported to damage the console and Microsoft has announced that evidence of their use will resulting in a voiding of one's warranty.
Honestly, if you're willing to take a gamble on your console randomly biting the dust then the Xbox 360 provides a fun gaming experience. When it works, the 360 is awesome, but for $300+ "when it works" just doesn't cut it for me.
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to me this is the best system on the market it offers the best game and the best multimedia of any other system and once you get online and experience all it has to offer you wont know. And soon with the fall update you will be able to stream movies and tv shows from netflix as long as you have a netflix subscription and are connected to live. and if you are worried about the 50 dollars a year dont be it comes out to 4.84 a mounth with the card that is 13 mounths. so in my mind go with what the slogan is an jump in and experience the best system on the market
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Being that I'm not a serious gamer, take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Xbox is fun. It's usually one of the systems that someone's friend has and when you go over for dinner you wind up playing some racing/shooting/music game. Then you go home thinking "Gee wouldn't that be nice to have?"
Yep, it is. Because now we're the friends with the system.
The smaller hard drive works just fine for us as we are extremely casual gamers that mostly use the device for RockBand, the Simpsons, and racing.
It's fun as all heck to rock out to RockBand (by far the most addictive game I've played).
Overall, worth the purchase price if what you're looking for is all of the mentioned above.
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