Do You Own An Xbox360? Options

[theone3000]

ill get one when micro$oft drops the price to $150.

[sabbath_dude]

I really want a 360 but at the moment they're way over priced. The main reason I want one is so I can play G.R.A.W. on live!!. But to get a premium package with that game is probably going to cost me about £300!!. I cant justify paying that for a console i'll only be playing (for now anyway) one game on. Also I already have 2 modded original xboxs that do everything the 360 does + a hellava lot more . I think i'll wait untill the end of the year when MS drop the price waaaayyy down to piss Sony off and pick one up then. For now I suppose I'm happy playing Summit Strike on live and the awsome XBMC for all my media needs!.

Gaming use to be gamers making games for gamers but now it's all about CEO's making their pockets as fat as possible. Games themselves are just not as good as they use to be.

I totally disagree with you on that. Yes games are big business but games nowadays are sooo much better than they were say 10 years ago. I only recently discovered Xbox Live for games like Halo 2, Ghost Recon 2, Burnout 3, etc, etc and my mind was and still is totally blown away by it!. Its just so much fun and too addictive!.

This post has been edited by sabbath_dude: Mar 30 2006, 10:21 PM

[quarky42]

Hate me if you want. I won one of them through the Mountain Dew EveryTenMinutes promotion. I sold it for big bucks on eBay and made a buttload of money off of twits that couldn't stand to be without an xbox 360. In fact I made so much money that I found an xbox 360 on ebay 7 days later (5 days after release) and bought it for roughly $535 including 2 vidieo games. I took some of the profits and bought 3 controllers and a game. I took two of the games I didn't want and exchanged them 100% for two other games that I wanted much more. Oh ya and I kept both games that came with the first xbox 360 I won.

No 12 hours in the rain/snow freezing my balls waiting in line with a bunch of pissed off people. Roughly a week after that (2-3 weeks after initial release) I got a call from the Sam's Club shipping manager I talked to and he let me know they got a new shipment coming in the next morning if I wanted to come stand in line for it. I talked to him before I bought the second xbox 360 so I could have had a third one if I wanted to.

So by now you are pissed off at me for being lucky or for taking advantage of people or for not having to put up with what you went through for your xbox 360. No problem. Just keep in mind that my sharing this with you was not to tick you off or to brag. I don't need your respect or your emotion. I am merely pointing out that the 360 really wasn't impossible to get ahold of because so many people were willing to camp out and others were willing to wait longer for it. If everyone had known how to mess with the odds of winning the 360 or known how to talk to the shipping manager and get them to tell you when a shipment was arriving, then I couldn't have possibly had it this easy.

As it is, today I have a premium 360 bundle, 5 games, 4 wireless controllers, and I still didn't have to spend a single cent to get it. I wasn't lucky either. I made the odds in my favor when I entered the contest. I made money by selling to people that couldn't bear to let their little dipstick kid go without a 360 for christmas. It was their decision to buy it for so much. They found it valuable. I just searched ebay, found the right deal a week later, and jumped on it. I'm also the same guy that refuses to buy a video game brand new. I'll wait till I can get a used one off ebay for $20 or much less.

I'm not better than you folks that decided to camp out... just cunning and overworked. I put in 60 hours a week and couldn't take a day off to camp. That might have actually been kinda fun. I'm glad you guys that did camp managed to make it work out for you. I know a few people that camped with friends, bought 3 360's and sold them and bought more on the next shipment.

I figured someone out there might find my experience with this whole fiasco interesting. For surely Microshaft really wanted to sell a lot more 360s a lot quicker.

[Wiggin78]

I bought 2 premiums at Zero Hour and sold both on Ebay. I searched for one for myself for the next 3 weeks. Finally when the local Wal-Mart got a shipment I bought 3 more, kept one for myself and sold the other 2 on Ebay. I also sold my Zero hour faceplate, sweatshirt, and key chains on Ebay. The 360 has been vary profitable for me. I plan on buying 10 PS3's. Free 360 and PS3 for me.

[Andronicus]

My vote recently changed to "Plan to buy one soon" due to the recent DVD mod sucsess.

[Ming3r]

Price drop when it rolls around.

I've got a feeling maybe when the PS3 rolls around?

[Wolf12886]

Grapics are sick, but the launch lineup just wasn't there, no variety, the one game i was looking forward to sucked worse than i could have possibly imagined (PD) not to mention all the overheating and what not. until more games come out and it gets more reliable, im not getting one, the only good game ive played for it is COD which is very good, but its not enough to warent $400 for a live ready system.

[DJFresh82]

hi,
I proudly own a Xbox 360 Core Bundle through dell.com for 3 weeks now. Lovin it all the way so far. Never had any problems so far, Sold out most of the core stuff and some of the extra Bundle stuff also, and got the high def component hookups and the 20 GB hard Drive. The custom sound tracks are kewl, overides every game so far including Demo's and even the Xbox live arcade games, that's really kewl. I changed up the face plate and such but would've loved to have the chrome finish DVD Drive Bezel also, will get it soon. Would like more 3rd person shooters though, not much of a 1st person shooter fan although the games look great!!!!

[stezo2k]

Had mine around 3 months and I cant keep off it, great console

[LVmOddER]

Got mine on 1.6.06 at 6:30 PM in a local Circuit City. Didn't even have to wait in line for 12 hours or anything becuase I WAS the first one in line when I came!!

[funnyperson1]

I'll get one if it is ever modded to run unsigned code and the price drops below $200, otherwise no. I don't think either of those things will happen in the next 12 months so I'll abstain from actually voting in the poll.

[mikejf]

I'll get one if it is ever modded to run unsigned code and the price drops below $200, otherwise no. I don't think either of those things will happen in the next 12 months so I'll abstain from actually voting in the poll.

My thoughts exactly.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Suit yourselves (people who think the 360 isnt worth it).

While im having a blast on Burnout Revenge (which totally KICKS the Xbox versions ass btw, you can actually SEE the oncoming traffic in time to dodge it now its in 720p) you guys can moan about how its not worth the price.

If they ever sort out the backwards compatibility then the 360 will be even better as playing Xbox games at 720p gives them a whole new lease of life. MUCH better than the PS2 improvements for PS1 games (though considering Xbox games have to be recompiled then no surprise).

[flbeserk]

Suit yourselves (people who think the 360 isnt worth it).

While im having a blast on Burnout Revenge (which totally KICKS the Xbox versions ass btw, you can actually SEE the oncoming traffic in time to dodge it now its in 720p) you guys can moan about how its not worth the price.

If they ever sort out the backwards compatibility then the 360 will be even better as playing Xbox games at 720p gives them a whole new lease of life. MUCH better than the PS2 improvements for PS1 games (though considering Xbox games have to be recompiled then no surprise).

glad you're enjoying it so much. the 360 version is much better but int he end it's the same game. i bought the 360 version and it was much easier than the xbox one. every time i played a level i'd get gold in one or two tries. I wish they'd remake burnout 3. I enjoyed it more since the levels were more out there revenge just feels more industrial and traffic checking just makes the game less challenging in my opinion. but it's worth buying it again though. Well i reserved my x360 around march 2005. Due to low shipments people were going to get calls to pick them up. They didnt' have enough so I didn't get a call. I called them to see where I was on that list. I was the next person on the list. I was shocked and I expected mine would arrive in no more than a week or so. since they only need to get like 1 and i get it. but yea gamestop started being gay and recieved the systems but sold them online instead of shipping them out to stores. They told me i should at least get it before christmas. december 24th I'm awakened by a call saying my x360 came it. and I laughed, because they were right. It arrived before christmas. Got pd0 didn't like so I was dissapointed got doa 4 beat it. then put the 360 away. brought it back out for G.R.A.W and revenge and might get rumble roses now. so I don't know. I dont' play my 360 much, sure I can play it online and play other people, but i'm not into all that online playing. That's why I'm not into the system so much i suppose since it mainly focuses on everything being online. I played revenge online a few times, once me and some other people were facing some people from france, and they kept dissing us, and we started to diss them back. they kept saying stupid americans etc etc, and yet they're using a product created by americans. after that I really didn't want to play online anymore. cuz ridiculous stuff like that goes on and it just takes the fun out of the game.

This post has been edited by flbeserk: Mar 31 2006, 05:54 PM

[pugpowr]

To day, when i got home from work, there was a 360 premium waiting for me at the dinner table.

My wife said that i never buy anything for my self, only to her, so she gave me a 360......

How about that?