With the already released ToV and upcoming games I've caved in an planning to get an xbox BUT I'm in Europe. Vesperia itself is still not out here, and most titles come months later or just never come to PAL. I've had my modded ps2, Japanese Wii and the ps3 is not region locked for games, but as for the xbox, I don't want an European one.
Since my brother lives in the US I can easily get him to bring me one from there. But if it dies on me it will still be a hassle to get it to and back from service (along with some ~$40 shipping per direction). And I was never prepared to go through that with the rumoured ~30% failure rate. Then with the newer consoles it was ~10% and from what I've read there will be (or already is) a new chipset.
I can wait some more.. until a low failure rate is finally reported. Or maybe if they end up anouncing a slim version.. but how are things right now? Is there a guaranteed way to get a console with the jasper chipset (if it's out), is it better? Google is bad at this research since it spews out so much about previous chipsets as well.
I don't know which version would be the best for me either... not going for an elite, maybe one of the premiums. On the other hand even the arcade has hdmi now, and I'm not really interested in online multiplayer... basically it's really just the JRPGs as of now, does an arcade sound enough for that?
