51 out of 57(89%)reviewers recommend this product.
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GamingDude
fromMA
Age:13-18
Did you buy this product for yourself or someone else?For me
The Xbox 360 - Amazing offline, a hassle online
PostedJune 23, 2012
This console is the best of the big 3. The problem with the system is the online component.
Design - the design of the console is much better than the PS3, and clearly a lot of thought was put into it. It is smaller, but performs better than its rival. The new slim model does not overheat like the infamous Arcade and Pro models did.
Graphics / Sound - the graphics in the console are very good. When using the HDMI cables for the console, the graphics for all games are phenomenal, and the sound is top notch. The console sounds amazing in surround sound or home theater setups.
Gameplay - The gameplay for games offline is great. The controllers do not lag when playing any type of game, and the movements of objects in the game are never choppy.
Xbox Live - this kills the Xbox. The Live component is very poor, especially considering it costs 60 bucks a year, while PSN is free. I have the router right next to my system, and it still struggles to connect to Live at times. When I select my network, it always displays 3 or 4 bars of WiFi, however it is a hassle to connect. The Marketplace ALWAYS seems to be down for maitnence, so I have to wait days, sometimes over a week to buy games. For example I purchased Minecraft a 2 days ago, but yet it refuses to download. Finally system and game updates are horrendous - they simply don't download. The bar moves an inch and then decides to stop. This means I can't play games online until it decides it wants to download. For a 60 dollar 365 day subscription, I estimate I get to actually use about 250 of those, because the 100+ other days the system won't download the game or its update. For 60 bucks, Microsoft could at least make the online decent... However, when the system isn't acting up, the online capabilities are very good.
**The Xbox 360 is a better system overall than the PS3**
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Posted byAdrenalineJunky0
Xbox's are terrible.
onSeptember 19, 2012
So I finally bought a Xbox and the biggest problem I have with it is overheating. Unless your house is freezing cold, thing things shuts off. I even bought a cooling system for it, and it doesn't help at all. I can't even play for 15 minutes before it just shuts off due to overheating. Everyone: Buy. A. PS3.
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Clarkey
fromFlorida
Age:25-34
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I always hear about "Xboxs melting down and exploding if you look at them funny." This talk has decreased quite a bit as gradual upgrades have been implemented.... I, for one, would like to say that my OLD Xbox, one of the White 20GB "old school" Xboxs, had only one problem: it started freezing on me on a regular basis. I simply took it to a local store that does Game Console repairs, they fixed it up for a very low price, and they slapped a warranty on it. No "I sent it to Microsoft for 2 months" horror stories; I had it back in a few days. (I say all of this because if you DO have something go wrong with your Xbox, you have other options than Microsoft that will have it fixed in a couple of days MAX.) Now, all of this said, I ended up getting a 250 GB Elite after having my beloved, relatively trouble-free White 20GB for many, many years; mostly for the MASSIVE hard drive. The first things I noticed were the huge speed increase, the decrease in sound made by the Xbox unit itself, and the complete lack of heat generated by the unit. All 3 of these improvements were most likely due to the fact that I installed any game I was going to be playing on a regular basis onto the hard drive. This meant no "CD Spinning Noise", no HEAT generated by the CD spinning and by the unit having to constantly store and dump information from the CD, and since the information was read straight from the HD and not from the CD: the speed was greatly increased. I've had this unit for a while now..... more than a year though I'm not sure of the exact date (I believe about a year and a half) and I have had no problems. It froze up one time; I was playing a split-screen co-op game..... I was freaked out that it would be like when my old Xbox was having trouble but it's been a LONG time since then and never happened again. The games I have installed range from 4-7 GB on average (with a couple like Last Remnant and Mass Effect 2 & 3 being quite a bit larger), which means with a 250GB HD you can literally cram 50 (FIFTY) games on the HD if they all average 5 GB a piece. For most, I would imagine, this would allow you to store every game you own into the HD and still have room for all of your music CDs/MP3s. For myself, I can't put EVERY game I own on the HD but I do have every game I play regularly on the HD while installing and deleting when necessary those games that I play more sparingly. On this note, you can delete the game information while keeping any DLC or, perhaps more importantly, any SAVED GAMES you might have accrued while playing (you do this by going into your HD storage and NOT DELETING THE ENTIRE "FALLOUT 3" DIRECTORY, but rather going INTO the Fallout 3 directory and deleting the "Fallout 3 Game Data" while keeping the "Fallout 3 Saved Games" and "Fallout 3 DLC" files {the "DLC" might be under the specific name OF said DLC so make sure you are aware of the specific names to avoid deleting anything you'd have to re-download at a $$ price.}). To sum up my typically long review: My experience with the Black 250GB Xbox Elite has been amazing; by being able to install everything I'm currently playing onto the HUGE Hard Drive it increases game speed while decreasing load time, heat generated by the console (put your hand by the air-blower-outer-thing and you'll have to play non-stop for 3-4 hours (of an installed game) before you start getting warm air (and since heat is the #1 killer of consoles, you are extending you Xbox life by a LOT by installing to the HD), and an installed game produces little/no noise (run a game directly off the CD and you'll see the difference.)
If you don't feel like reading all of that: The Black 250GB Xbox Elite has worked great, is faster, less heat-producing, and more durable than the older-school Xboxs (from my experience, anyways.) I'd recommend it highly but keep in mind: around the holidays they start pairing Xboxs with a couple of newer free games.... when I got mine it was Alan Wake and Forza 3 (and i think some Star Wars game that I never played). If you are interested you might wish to wait until the holidays... or at least until there is a gift-card or some other goody thrown in the deal.
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Blahhhhhhhhhh
PostedJune 16, 2012
this is one of the worst systems ever. i'll b plain and simple it sucks its bad and slow and the $200 dollar one has only 4GB, breaks all the time and you have to pay for live common. Don't waste your money its not worth it. a ps3 is $250 has 160GB and has free live and uncharted and infamous and LBP1&2 ect....
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bar set very low, in my eyes.
PostedJune 11, 2012
i have all 3 current systemsand the xbox failed to appeal in my mind heres why: the targeted audience flipped and flopped, from teens to adults to children and now back to teens. (wii & ps3 stuck to their targets)
the discs were standard duo-layer and scratched very easily. (wii had a solution with disc patented disc covers and ps3 didnt need to worry with their blu-ray games)
the graphics were okay but not fantastic (nor was ps3 or wiis). (but ps3 had alot more room to stretch the graphic bandwidth as well as sound game time)
it was rushed. (but if i remember correctly ps3 was too. while wii pledged not to join in the competition and did not rush too hard)
it had alot of problems from start onward. (as did ps3 but not nearly as much as for wii i have had no problems and i got it the first day)
all and all. not worth the trip to game stop for this.
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