Xbox 360, PS3, or Nintendo Revolution

[Spiffyfast]

thanks for the info WnDrBr3d, vice city was a top selling game, so I should be able to play it before I get live.

I would get a HDTV before the new sound system, but... HDTV's have a larger price tag, so I'd have to save up some more, and I think I just bought vice city by accident over future shop..

HDTV doesnt have to have a higher price tag, just saw a 30" Philips widescreen crt on www.ubid.com today for $200 bucks, thought about picking it up to use for something, dont know what, but I could figure something out. You just have to look for a good price.

 

[no man]

thats american dollars though, here in canada, thats like.. 300?..wait its $242.44, I'm having trouble finding it... link please..?

 

[no man]

FOUND IT! yeap, its there, 199 30 inch flatscreen HDTV, cheap little bugger

 

[no man]

wait...why's it so cheap?? why hasnt anyone bidded for it??

 

[Spiffyfast]

not alot of ppl know about www.ubid.com, I didnt until like a month ago, most ppl think they get the best pic. with a flat panel, not true at all, some ppl dont have the space for a crt. Plus the shipping is outragesous, but its a big tv

 

[no man]

man i wanna get my hands on san andreas, and vice city. A double pack of those two whould be awesome!..in november

 

[Spiffyfast]

man i wanna get my hands on san andreas, and vice city. A double pack of those two whould be awesome!..in november

for the 360 or original?

 

[no man]

yea, for the 360.. it should be bc with them, they're both large hits, fairly new too

 

[Spiffyfast]

I can't wait to play san andreas on the xbox, almost had it beat on the ps2 then my memory card stopped working, i was soooo pissed, lost my almost finished gran turismo 4 too...damn you ps2, you should have a hard drive....

 

[no man]

I don't know why, but I think the xbox 360 is going to be released on November 2nd.. they havn't released a date or anything, but.. that day just sticks out.. its a new moon too

 

[Spiffyfast]

I don't know why, but I think the xbox 360 is going to be released on November 2nd.. they havn't released a date or anything, but.. that day just sticks out.. its a new moon too

its a new moon too, thats kind of an off the subject comment, but who knows, i wouldn't doubt its released on that friday after thanksgiving, biggest shopping day of the year..hundreds of thousands of units sold world wide in one day sinces its being released everywhere at the same time

 

[Jedi2016]

Current speculation says that the hard drive is required for backwards compatibility, in order to store the emulation software. Which means you'll be forced to pay for the $400 version of the system, one way or the other.

 

[no man]

Current speculation says that the hard drive is required for backwards compatibility, in order to store the emulation software. Which means you'll be forced to pay for the $400 version of the system, one way or the other.

thats just a speculation, that the hard drive is seperate. It has to come with one, well it doesn't have to but it most likely will, when MICROSOFT says that and posts it up on their official site, I'll believe it. Now, bogus.

 

[Spiffyfast]

i'll buy the 400 just to get all the extras anyways so it wont matter too much, I have a feeling a lot of ppl wll do the same, they just have the $300 dollar one for ppl that dont want to shell out that much right away, but theyll end up paying 500 by the time they get everything they need to really enjoy it

 

[no man]

I heard that with the purchase of the xbox 360 within the first 2 months of its release you get a free subscription to xbox live?? I'm not sure on this... anyone feel like clarifying?

 

[no man]

I'm not sure how long the subsctription -if it even exists- is..

 

[Spiffyfast]

from the pricing release everyone has xbox live that has an xbox, but you have to upgrade that to play games online

 

[Jedi2016]

thats just a speculation, that the hard drive is seperate. It has to come with one, well it doesn't have to but it most likely will, when MICROSOFT says that and posts it up on their official site, I'll believe it. Now, bogus.

You need to read the news, then. The official announcement was made this morning. The standard Xbox360, retailing for $299, does not include the hard drive. The "Premium" version, at $399, does.

I still don't understand this obsession with a hard drive. Just because Xbox had one (which wasn't really used for much), everybody simply assumes that it's a "requirement", and that any system that doesn't include one from that point on is "teh suck". Obviously it's not near as important as everyone thinks it is, or else MS wouldn't have dropped it. Now it's nothing more than a hundred-dollar add-on, that will be used even less than the Xbox's drive was, because not everyone will have it.

As for the subscription, it's just the "Silver" membership, which is free anyway. The "Gold" membership, which is required to actually play games online, will cost you, just like it's always cost you.

 

[Spiffyfast]

You need to read the news, then. The official announcement was made this morning. The standard Xbox360, retailing for $299, does not include the hard drive. The "Premium" version, at $399, does.

I still don't understand this obsession with a hard drive. Just because Xbox had one (which wasn't really used for much), everybody simply assumes that it's a "requirement", and that any system that doesn't include one from that point on is "teh suck". Obviously it's not near as important as everyone thinks it is, or else MS wouldn't have dropped it. Now it's nothing more than a hundred-dollar add-on, that will be used even less than the Xbox's drive was, because not everyone will have it.

As for the subscription, it's just the "Silver" membership, which is free anyway. The "Gold" membership, which is required to actually play games online, will cost you, just like it's always cost you.

I have to disagree on the hard drive wasn't really used for much. First off, you could have thousands of game saves on that hard drive, how many of those annoying ps2 memory cards would that have taken. Second, I ripped all kinds of cd's to my xbox so I could have custom sound tracks in my games that offered it, that was a really cool option. Third, it allowed you to download content from xbox live like new levels, demo games, all kinds of stuff. Ppl do you use it, some just dont really take full advantage of it

 

[WndrBr3d]

The XBox360 will still have 512MB or 256MB On-Board Flash Memory (CF type built in).

So the hard drive isnt a MUST to save games, nor are additional memory cards. The Hard drive would be used more for saving downloaded Emulator Profiles and other content.