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"Worth getting a 360 yet?"

Ok, just sold my Xbox and am thinking of getting a 360 at the beginning of next month.

Have any hardware bugs been fixed by now? Do you think it would be worth getting one now or waiting? My Xbox Live account is ticking down too, so without an Xbox it's being wasted.

GAME have a good pack available; the full pack + Fight Night and PGR3 for £319.99

I hooked it up the other night and played it for the first time and the noise was the first thing i noticed, sounded just like my PC booting up, quite a change after my nice quiet PS2.

Bullett wrote:
> Can't say I've had any heat or noise issues.
>
> I'd say grab one now - all the good games are coming out in the
> next 6 Months:
>
> Gears of War
> Lost Planet
> Splinter Cell 4
> Rainbow Six Vegas
> etc.

I'm really tempted to get a 360 now, the price tag of the PS3 is actually rather upsetting.

But it just seems to me, that all their "good" games are just FPS ones...

pb wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> Viva Pinata is the future!
>
> It looks so weird that it could well be true...

Yep, Rare are back to their habit of combining previously individual genre's again: a gardening game (Harvest Moon) combined with a creature rearing game (Pokemon) and of course there's Rare's weird approach to the graphics as usual. :)

Will I be buying a 360 just to play it? Nope. :P

If any of the online games really grab you then get one now, otherwise I'd wait ande get an Xbox again as there's plenty of time to play the 360 offline titles and plenty of cheap gems about for the original box.

I sold all of my 360 games last week. I need the money for something else, and I'd grown bored of them all. PD0 was a truly awful game and I only managed to sit through two plays of it before I became bored. COD2 was awesome, but way too short and a bit repetitive. Tony Hawks was an alright game, but looked barely any better than the Xbox version.

Now is probably the time to get a 360 as there are finally some better games creeping onto the market. I quite like the look of that Test Drive game. Driving around Hawaii in a bunch of nice cars is rather appealing.

I have a console with no games though. Great stuff.

I ordered mine 3 days ago, just waiting on the postie to crumple it all through my letterbox.

The main incentive was my gfx card giving me VPU recovery errors at random times during FFXI on PC, so switching over to console and avoiding crouching over my keyboard into the wee hours while my hand turns mouse-shaped was a no-brainer, especially considering Forza 2 is in the works.

I'll only be using XBox Live Silver to start, I'll probably get the Gold service when Forza 2 comes out or if anything else catches my eye meantime.

Yes I think we're waiting for the price to come down too. Would love to have one though. Mind you I still havent played on it yet.

I'm still waiting for it to come down in price a bit.

Yeah. Streaming is a real blessing... we've never had it before, but as soon as you go back to an old console you miss it.

You'll have to download the free 'optional iPod Support' thingy from Marketplace, I think. Probably just means you can play AAC...

I have a Live account ticking down, so that's one reason to get it now. I also have shares maturing in June, which would pay for it.

I do have my other xbox (the modified one) which can't go on Live, just to play offline for now.

I didn't spend that long on Live when I had it though, but now I don't have it, I miss it.

Quite tempted by the 'media centre' idea though, if I get a wireless adaptor and take the 360 downstairs I could stream stuff to it and have all my itunes and videos etc...