Have The Over Priced Xbox 360 Bundles ..., soured your enthusiasm? Options

[drbootleg]

I'm just going to wait a while regardless of price. MS has been known, on the rarest of occasion, to rush things and leave a few bugs. *cough...thompson...cough*. Maybe a few months, then the premium bundle.

[Brouhaha]

That horsepower BS has really started to annoy me. Basically, we can chose from many overpriced bundles, all which offer nothing more than better graphics over current gen.

My current Xbox will remain in the living room for a few more years (thanks to XBMC, not gaming), with a revolution at it's side in due time...

[raptor87]

I think it really isnt that bad of a price. if you wanted a 512mb graphics card for your computer (which benchmarks show dosent really help) youd be spending $500 just for that.

[pookiepoo]

no way im i buyin 1 yet im in da uk shits always ova priced im waitin till it drops in price plus i like the idea of saving games 2 my hd on da 1st xbox. it saves a lot of space i can just put my games in a cupboard and ders no way ms is gonna make this option available on da 360.

my xbox can play all region dvds without the remote and shit

y buy a 360 for £300 dat ude havta buy a bleedin remote to watch dvds f*@k Dat

you cant even use your old xbox controllers in its and probably the same for your live headsets

its just a money making skam

different bundles

wait a little bit and it drops down in price...

wait a little bit longer it drops down in price dramatically, some one has found a way to mod it so it can be used to its full potential.

even if it cant be modded all the console vetrans should know it always drops down in price

there should be a standard package which is at a reasonable price not a price your gonna feel pissed about payin a couple of months down the line.

ive been around consoles my whole life first one nes and im 19 so i am a fully pledged player but i dont believe that i should be conned out of money to do something i enjoy. and ms is a blatent con.

but they do make a wicked console though

great graphics, excellent online gaming and they are very inventive (soundtracks)

[halofreak007]

i think all those huge super bundles gamestop is selling is really funny, its not even any kind of bundled value, the price of th ebundle is just retail for each peice added up, you cna buy it all over the course of 3 months and pay the same, probably less as sure some of those games will flop and the price will drop quickly

...although i still find myself eyeballing the 700 dollar pack just becuase its what i would probably buy within the first few weeks anyway

13337 is a leet post count =]

[simbot82]

I am happy, better than original xbox anyway

[xboxmodder4life]

y buy a 360 for £300 dat ude havta buy a bleedin remote to watch dvds f*@k Dat

you cant even use your old xbox controllers in its and probably the same for your live headsets

You dont need a remote to play dvd's that been stated already...plus your live headest will work as will any cell phone headset or pretty much any standard headset.


As for the xbox controllers you cant use those because of some new features with the new xbox..


but do as u want.

[Reaper527]

the bundles didn't "spoil" my enthusiasm, however i'm just planning on getting the premium pack and making my own bundle so to speak. i preordered perfect dark zero, madden 06, and doa4 back in the end of may at my local gamestop. i personally think 400 might seem a bit steep, but if you look at it, its a pretty good deal

[mckenn88]

i saw somewhere where it showed all of the opening prices of all of the video game consoles ever made and relatively the xbox360 has been one of the cheapest, but i still think it should be lower

[Owtlaw333]

It's called inflation.... shit happens, lol. 400 REALLY isn't that bad. PS2 and xbox were what, 300? when they first came out.... and so was PS1 wasn't it? So by todays standards, 400 seems right to me. You definately get a shit load more than what you did with that PS1 too (a controller and a console..... oh wait, sounds like the core pack, haha)

[will1384]

I wanted the first Xbox - but waited years till they came down in price,
this time will be no difference - there is no way in h3ll I am paying that
price - for that price it should give me som "love me long time"

plus I expect it will take about a year and a half to "neuter"
the xbox 360

[Owtlaw333]

for that price it should give me som "love me long time"

In the words of Ice Cube, "There's two things I don't pay for... water and pussy. ...cuz they're both free"

[dethfactor]

I have my 360 reserved and I can understand why MS did what they did. In the original xbox they had a ton of games made for it that didn't use the hd.. most of the games didn't have custom soundtracks and a lot of the ports didn't even cache to the damn thing.. So it was smart to cut it out for people who want to play all 40 need for speed iterations, but I think they'll definately harness the HD moreso than the PS3.. Sony sold off a single 80 gig for $100+ for one frigging game and had talked up all this support that turned into vaporware. I've worked in game retail for a few years and sony's business tactics frost my ass. They always shit on thier customers acting as if it was a priviledge to buy thier product and the sony reps where all stuck up arrogant assholes too. Micrsoft has a good plan going.. and I think an extra $100 is worth all the bundled stuff especially a slim 20gig drive.. I think people fail to realize that it's not a regular 5.25 IDE drive like in the last one, it's an ultra small drive that similar to whats in an ipod.. for portability sake.. It's so damn worth it. Funny thing is when I started working in game retail I was so pro-sony. I didn't buy an xbox till years after launch. I don't wanna screw up this time. Ok, well I said my piece.

[tharien]

$400 is too much for first gen anything. The bugs that tend to plague first release consoles is a constant. The only company to get it right almost every time is Nintendo, too bad they made such a horrible control this gen

I have been saving some cash from the Xboxes I've been modding, but thats going toward a beefier PC. Its a pretty much guarantee that ill be playing most of the games slated for the 360 on my PC anyhow, aside from a very select few such as Halo3. I'll wait a year for the bundle to come down in price, and they have the library of games that draws my attention, ill buy in. If not, i will eventually get one, in the same way i collect all other platforms, when i can buy it in a pawn shop for $50.

[Keva]

no way im i buyin 1 yet im in da uk shits always ova priced im waitin till it drops in price plus i like the idea of saving games 2 my hd on da 1st xbox. it  saves a lot of space i can just put my games in a cupboard and ders no way ms is gonna make this option available on da 360.

my xbox can play all region dvds without the remote and shit

talk in english this isnt a text service

This post has been edited by Keva: Sep 24 2005, 05:27 PM