Should I buy a Xbox 360?

[Shenrien]

something to note from that article

Buy a 360 now and you'll be current-generation for at least another 2-3 years.

That's not something comforting knowing you'll be dropping $300+ for something that's going to be replaced soon, but that's just my two-cents :s

[Kiarax]

You'd hear the exact same shit on PSN if it came bundled with a headset. There is really no difference in community between the two. I still came across plenty of whiny kids in Killzone 2 when I played that. You just hear less people with mics in general (both cool and people you'd rather not be hearing). Most every game now has the ability to mute people in seconds anyway, or you can just make a Live party with your friends so you don't have to hear anyone but eachother if you don't want to.

[Shenrien]

>_> cause the same couldn't be done with a bunch of friends in Home.

[Kiarax]

The hell are you talking about?

[Shenrien]

your live party statement to avoid all the annoying faggots.

[Kaisha]

Except you wouldn't be able to play any games in home, nor could you voice-chat with your 'group' once you exit the program.

[BRP]

These kind of questions are pointless. Buy every platform. If you can't afford it, buy the ones which have more games you want to play in order.

[Kiarax]

your live party statement to avoid all the annoying faggots.

I don't think you understand what a Live party is. You can make a "party" with people and talk to all of them at once across any and all games. If you're playing Halo together making a party blocks out all the other players and just leaves you to talk to eachother. Or you can be playing MW2 whilst your friend's playing Halo and still be talking to eachother. Think of it more something like Vent/Teamspeak built in to the Xbox.

[Cleverness]

The Live community is definitely more 'vocal' to put it gently, but I've enjoyed my 360 since I've bought it(looking up the order date on newegg) on March 2007. It has yet to RROD on me so I supposed it's just luck not getting a launch model. In the end as it's been said it'd really just come down to what each console has for exclusives + what your friends are getting. Both should cost relatively the same since you need to slap down $50 for Xbox Live. Even saying I like my 360 I'm still inclined to try out PS3 games like Infamous and MGS4, so either way there's stuff you miss out on.

That's not something comforting knowing you'll be dropping $300+ for something that's going to be replaced soon, but that's just my two-cents :s

That's like saying someone dropping $150 on a PS2 a year before the PS3 launch is making a bad move. Fact is you're better off buying current gen consoles and their games and then just getting the next gen after about a year when they get a nice assortment of games in their library + a console price drop, and of course not having to worry about terrible launch models that have several issues(hi2u PS2 and 360 launch). If they say the 360 has 2-3 left that's being pretty generous, prolly 3-4 with delays and stuff, but that's still worth the money imo unless the majority of the games you want to play are ported to PC and your PC is capable of running them.

[Seanr]

It's the gamers yearly fee that end up paying for all the bandwidth the demos consume on XBLA, where-as on PSN it comes out of the publishers' budget.

That $50 a year from what I've seen goes to Microsoft wasting money to make things 'exclusive' for a week upwards of a month, paying for the Marketplace servers, and uh.....paying for 'matchmaking' servers that just end up making the gamers host the rounds of their own bloody connections anyway.

You get demo's regardless if you have Gold or not, Gold people just get them a week or 2 earlier than basic members. EVERY Game still has a demo, regular or xbla game

[Kaisha]

I'm aware, but it's still the gold subscribers that are footing the bill for that to happen.

[Seanr]

Communism? lol

[Mizango]

Get both and enjoy both, beware of fanboys like Kyo and Leeroy Brown, those niggas would suck a bag of butane basted dicks for a goddamn PS3 controller. I have both but still use my PS2 like its going out of style. 360 has more interaction with friends and what not, but PS3 has some good titles in its own right.

Go with both and put fanboys from either camp on ignore.

[Mizango]

Nevermind, Kyo changed his avatar and threw me off, too late your thread is already gay.

You'd hear the exact same shit on PSN if it came bundled with a headset. There is really no difference in community between the two. I still came across plenty of whiny kids in Killzone 2 when I played that. You just hear less people with mics in general (both cool and people you'd rather not be hearing). Most every game now has the ability to mute people in seconds anyway, or you can just make a Live party with your friends so you don't have to hear anyone but eachother if you don't want to.

Also this. Fanboys like to point this out and make obscure Halo jokes, when KZ and MAG are carbon copys from top to bottom, including the 10 year olds talking shit. And these sorry fuckers wonder why they arent on any of my friends lists lol. Do work Kia, thankfully youre here to tell the truth, unlike these other motherfuckers.

[Shojin]

Keep fighting the good fight, console warrior.

[Haruk]

i personally prefer my ps3, but i end up playing my xbox way more only because i'm cheap.

hax it for the homebrewz and free games!

[Seanr]

i personally prefer my ps3, but i end up playing my xbox way more only because i'm cheap.

hax it for the homebrewz and free games!

I may end up doin this.. cuz i'm broke a lot, and well fuck it. I already download movies, music, and I did download Dricas and PSP Games >_>

[Shojin]

I may end up doin this.. cuz i'm broke a lot, and well fuck it. I already download movies, music, and I did download Dricas and PSP Games >_>

Just be careful not to get it banned from XBL though, people that do it usually hack like an arcade and keep a different unit for playing online.

I have no idea is JTAG 360's can be detected, but you need the old firmware to be able to do that

[Haruk]

jtagged xboxes can definitely be banned, but you can unban them fairly easily if you inject a different kv into it. apparently someone has a private hack that makes it undetectable, but i don't see that ever going public
personally i think its worth it though, being able to load games off an external hard drive, free dlc, and custom dashboards are cool. but i guess it depends on how you feel about xbox live... apparently the new dvd firmware hack is safe atm for live

[Seanr]

I guess I shoulda bought that pro they had at the barbershop for 100.
Is it 100% software like the dreamcast, or modchip type shit? I'm too lazy to deal with chips