XBox 360 - Why should I buy one?

Boogle said:
Its not flawed - the X360 has a 5 year lifespan. If you didn't upgrade a top-end PC for 5 years...
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But in the mean time PC graphics will advance more than 360 graphics will.

my PC could probably handle GOW too, but then again i paid £350 just for my graphics card, then theres x amount on CPU/Motherboard, all adds up, yet the 360 is only £210-280, so if his PC already could cope with GOW then thats not the point, as he probably would have spent way more than the price of a 360 to get it like that.
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As VIRII said he was getting an HDTV anyway so that wasn't an extra cost for him. The same goes for a PC. I know that I would definately always want a decent PC regardless of any consoles I own. Maybe someone might need a high-end PC for their job. My point is you can't say for sure that playing games on a 360 is cheaper than playing games on a PC. It depends on your circumstances.

Just to make it clear I'm not an anti-xbox fanboy. I will most probably get one when halo3 comes out. At the moment there are just more PC games that interest me than 360 games.
 
The 360 is an awful lot of hardware and user friendly gaming experience for the money, it has a level playing field and it all just works beautifully.
That is why it is worth getting one. That said I don't seem to get to use mine much :(
 
Psyk said:
But in the mean time PC graphics will advance more than 360 graphics will.
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As will poorly coded sluggish game engines, which is where a fixed hardware set comes into it's own. You can have the best gpu on the planet but when you've got something running sluggish, it's of no use. With the advent of HDR and Cinematic crap around the corner I'm just I left the pc gaming scene tbh.

A lot of people (not you) tend to forget all about this. It's all about the coding side of things too, not just the hardware.
 
Xbox was released in 2001..and still going strong in my books; in fact some of its greatest games came out in the last year. So that's five years and counting.

Oh, and Tesla...get one. They're the business.
 
Tried&Tested said:
Xbox was released in 2001..and still going strong in my books; in fact some of its greatest games came out in the last year. So that's five years and counting.
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And looking at current release schedules, there's still games coming out for it so it's hardly retired just yet.
 
European release date March 14th. 360 launch december 12th 2005, 3 years?
The argument i am trying to counter is the 'you need to upgrade your PC hardware constantly to keep on top' Well you need to upgrade your xbox every 3 years to keep at the top of that.
I got some great games on the xbox last year too. But MS are wanting to winde down production of it, they arent going out there way to make xbox games backwards compatible, even new releases. So it has had a very short life span, for a console.
i mean a PC that is 3 years old isnt retired either, but people seem to think it is nothing but a doorstop then. thats what i am getting at.
 
expect to see the 360 around for at least 5 years jumpurs.

MS were desperate to get their next gen console out before PS3, so they had to get the 360 out asap hence the shorter than usual life of the xbox, not that it's dead, but you know what i mean!
 
Top class graphics on your big telly? absolutely

Thought i was finished with games, then a bought the 360.

total class, and for that price its a steal.
 
Funnily enough i though i was finished with games to, aint really gamed on my PC for years, just use it for the net now, then got a 360, and ive been on it more than ive been on my PC in about 5 years, and only had it about 6 weeks. :D

PLayed loads of PGR3, then gave it a rest for a bit and started playing Condemned, completed that other night so now im going through King Kong. :D

Looking forward to Tomb Raider Legends, GR:AW, GOW etc.... :cool:

Get one, for the price they are ******* brilliant!!!.
 
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PuncH said:
expect to see the 360 around for at least 5 years jumpurs.

MS were desperate to get their next gen console out before PS3, so they had to get the 360 out asap hence the shorter than usual life of the xbox, not that it's dead, but you know what i mean!
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Yeah i know what you mean but to be honest i think we will see another xbox well within this decade.
I think consumers are demanding more. On the IGN review they said oblivion looked probably slightly better on a high end PC than on a 360. We all are pretty much certain the PS3 will be around level with the 360. So gone are the days when a high end PC is trumphed by a console.
Also nowadays 280 quid is nothing compaired to what it was years ago during the PSOne era and even the original xbox launch (which launched at 300). So people are more likely to be willing to shell out (technically £220) every 3 years than thousands on PC's. And i think MS, Sony and Nintendo will know this also.
I am also interested to see how long support for the original xbox will continue as the PSOne was still going 3/4 years after the PS2, so i am interested to see how it all pans out.
 
I too had got bored of pc gaming didn't stop me spending stupid money updrading though, best move i ever did getting a 360 and downgrading pc for normal use.

The 360 hardware is all very new i don't expect we see its true potential for abit so if its keeping up with current £400 pc gfx cards thats good imo and who knows what it will produce in time to come.
 
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JUMPURS said:
Yeah i know what you mean but to be honest i think we will see another xbox well within this decade.
I think consumers are demanding more. On the IGN review they said oblivion looked probably slightly better on a high end PC than on a 360. We all are pretty much certain the PS3 will be around level with the 360. So gone are the days when a high end PC is trumphed by a console.
Also nowadays 280 quid is nothing compaired to what it was years ago during the PSOne era and even the original xbox launch (which launched at 300). So people are more likely to be willing to shell out (technically £220) every 3 years than thousands on PC's. And i think MS, Sony and Nintendo will know this also.
I am also interested to see how long support for the original xbox will continue as the PSOne was still going 3/4 years after the PS2, so i am interested to see how it all pans out.
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aye it'll certainly be interesting to see what happens. it's also interesting you should mention the cost of the hardware.

i've had a pc about 6 years now and including buying the PC in the first place i've spent, on average, £700 a year on it! that's upgrades, extra bits and enforced purchases if something went wrong.

my xbox cost me £130 when i bought it in august 04 and it lasted me until jan 06. now i've paid £280 for my 360, plus an extra controller, mem card and RGB SCART lead (£347 althogether) and even if it's 3 years till the next one that's only £115.67 a year! I don't include the cost of games because I'd buy them on PC as well. I realise PC games are cheaper but if you shop around and utilise the second hand market you will be able to get 360 games at decent prices. Even if I went and spent £700 on a HDTV it'd still be cheaper in the long run (i'd expect a decent HDTV to last over 10 years)

Anyway, that's why I have a console and I that's why I think the OP should get one! Oh yeah, apart from the fact that the 360 is great!
 
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Jabbs said:
I too had got bored of pc gaming didn't stop me spending stupid money updrading though.
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Same here, bought an x1800 XT 512mb when they came out, and all i use it for is my display, i don't game at all, just use my PC for the net as said, its absolutely wasted, also 2gb of Ram A64 3500+, must be the most powerfullest net PC in the world, as thats all its used for. :D
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Same here, bought an x1800 XT 512mb when they came out, and all i use it for is my display, i don't game at all, just use my PC for the net as said, its absolutely wasted, also 2gb of Ram A64 3500+, must be the most powerfullest net PC in the world, as thats all its used for. :D
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lol yup sounds like me, flogged mine 7800gtx/3500 A64/2 gig ram and running on me 2nd pc super fast barton 3200/gf4ti4200/1 gig ram does me for normal use
 
Exactly why I'll be upgrading my [email protected] Barton, 2gb Ram and a Oc'd 6800GT just after when Vista arrives. There's no reason right now when the pc handles Win2k/XP without a sweat, and I don't game anymore on it, even though I do have old titles still left on it.

The 360 made me look long and hard at my gaming habits on the pc, which have become non existant over the years. Being able to play safely with gamers around the world via XBL did it for me.
 
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