OT: Thinking About Buying An XBox360

President_Elect_Shang · #1 December 6th, 2006, 12:53 PM

What is the going price for a Wii?

Combat Wombat · #2 December 6th, 2006, 02:13 PM

$250 for a Wii

Fyron · #3 December 6th, 2006, 03:02 PM

Tis the only reasonably priced latest generation console...

Spectarofdeath · #4 December 6th, 2006, 11:27 PM

I got a playstation 2 for my birthday once, maybe about 1.5 years after it came out. It wasn't too bad. I had played the first ps and loved it, I even bought one towards the end of it's life (maybe a year before ps2 came out). Had it for maybe a year before I started getting "disk read error" Tried several different things, nothing worked. Made me so angry (after having just bought a much anticpated game then not being able to play it) that I just gave it to my younger brother and told him he could keep it if he got it working....well, he didn't. So I won't get a PS3 (unless I become so rich that I need to throw money away). And as some ppl who sat inline in front of a store the night before launch and were going to sell it on ebay said "All the good games won't be out for a year at least anyway". Onto the Wii, looks intresting, haven't played it yet, I used to love nintendo, I had the first nintendo, SNES, and the N64. Once Gamecube came out I had been turned off of nintendo, it just seems they were trying to gear everything towards 6-12 yr olds (sorry, Mario just dont cut it for me anymore, though I wouldn't mind zelda) IF I had to buy a console it would be the Wii but for only one reason......X360 I own one already, it's great, I bought a Xbox after my PS2 stopped working and loved it so I figured I would love 360, haven't been disappointed yet. I grew up being a console gamer (parents were too poor to buy a PC untill I was about 16) Now I'm more of a PC gamer (being that strategy games are my fav. genre) but still enjoy grabbing a controller and chainsawing someone in GoW or sniping someone in Halo 2.

The Gnome · #5 December 7th, 2006, 12:31 PM

Lots of people are going "Wii-60". Instead of getting a PS3, you get a wii plus the low end xbox 360 for the same price.

frightlever · #6 December 7th, 2006, 07:33 PM

I ordered a 360 with Gears as a bundle but the carrier lost it. In the meantime all I heard about were crashing games and that it sounds like a helicopter taking off when the DVD gets up to speed. So I counted my blessings and cancelled my order. Maybe look at it in the new year if there's a significant price drop.

OTOH my Wii should be here tomorrow or Monday. Hopefully...

You have to ask yourself what you actually want it for though. Buy whichever based on the games you want to play. Or more likely on the games your kids want to play. (And remember both the Wii channels and Xbox Live (and probably Sony's live service but they can go eff themselves. Dicks to the gaming community I say!!!) should give you a steady stream of demos to play.)

Spectarofdeath · #7 December 8th, 2006, 12:45 AM

I haven't had any problems with mine, but anyway, MS was supposed to be refunding all the money to have those early one's fixed....Thats what happens when you rush to market....anyone remember the early PS2?

I dont have a HD tv and some of the games (GoW and Cod3) look Beautiful on a reg. tv.

I don't know if they did this, maybe someone else will know, but at one point sony was supposedly thinking about making it where once a game was played on a PS3 it wouldn't be allowed to be used on another one....there goes rentals. (Again, I don't know if this is true, or just a rumor, I just remember hearing about it somewhere and helped push me towards saying f sony)

Fyron · #8 December 8th, 2006, 01:09 AM

Erm... I highly doubt they would have a blue ray burner drive in the PS3. Regular ones are difficult and expensive enough to fabricate as it is. Sounds like a fud rumor to me.

Jarena · #9 December 8th, 2006, 02:41 AM

Spectar: no, the ps3 doesn't 'mark' anything
As far as rushing to market, though, out of the 38 ps3 demo units the local district was given (Gamestop, EB, Target, etc) only seven work after the first four days :\
What I've heard from people who have actually bought the thing, it doesn't seem that far gone. Even the 1080i problems its been having haven't been fixed by the firmware patch.

Azselendor · #10 December 8th, 2006, 10:56 AM

Definately, get a Wii, it's a bit less on graphics, but has a lot more playable. Just make sure you replace nintendo's silly little wrist strap with a good, strong, leather one (less your TV be victim to an unfortunate tennis accident). I also recommend buying the classic controller for it. I'm hoping to order one for this holiday for my little brother.

Xbox 360 is meh, for me. Only a handful of titles on it are really interesting in my opinion.

As for the PS3, don't have one, I might get one with my tax return if the price comes down and retailers like EB games stop predatory packaging the PS3 (forcing you to buy a number of games/accessories)