i feel ripped off.
of course when i say that on xbox.com all the fanboys cry. but i just paid $500 for a premium system bundle last november. then another $100 for the circuit city "dis-advantage plan", as i call it. they make you send the whole system in and send you a gift card...less the warranty amount. you gotta buy a new console and a new warrany on it (another $100 down the drain). i sent mine to microsoft. it broke after just 3 months.
the 12gb that you have on the regular hard drive doesnt last long at all. some demos are 1gb alone. then if you download movies or shows in high def, you can scratch the rest of the space real quick.
id like to have the larger hard drive. i guess microsoft has to keep up with playstation. as far as music storage, i just stream from the pc. but i guess it would be nice to have some room to store music on the hd. that way i could hear it when im not at my house.
i always said they should have stayed with the black and green consoles...it was kind-of their trademark. then they went with the white, which shows all the dust and finger cheese. and i believe microsoft added a hdmi output on the elite systems...keeping up with playstation again. guess thats what you gotta do when you release your console a year before the competition.
anyway, id like to have one. i like the extra hard drive space and the black instead of white. but i think $179 or whatever for a hd by itself is ridiculous.
these are the things with microsoft that suck.
xbox fanboys stop reading now.
i had the original 'box. when i bought the 360 i gave the old one to my nieces. i kept 3 games that i wanted to play still. all of them are "platinum hits"...the most popular games out. well only 2 of them are backwards compatible. but games like 'barbie horse round-up' are backwards compatible. go figure. so they are really slacking on the whole 'play old games on the new system' deal.
then there is xbox live...$50 a year. not much, but why do we have to pay??? i paid 500 bucks for the console and more for games and stuff. but i cant play half the game i paid without paying
more for the online "service". and on the other hand playstation 3 offers online play for free (tho i hear it isnt that good). and anyone who says, "you pay for them to update and maintain servers and stuff..", well think about this. 6 million users @ $50 each = $300,000,000/year. and thats the minimum...$8-10 if you pay monthly...then its like $100/year per person. doubt it takes that much money to maintain some servers and pay some techs. but even at this point, you
still dont have the whole game. they always come out with "downloadable content" for games after they release them. maps, cars, whatever. the stuff isnt much money. but if you dont get it, you get the "this party is using downloadable content that you do not have" message. M$ is just greedy, end of story. im surprised they didnt make me pay to ship my broken console to them for repair!!! and the customer service is a joke! (i think..couldnt understand the rep on the phone
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