Congrats on your purchase. I would recommend buying the rechargeable battery packs. I can't remember how much they cost...around $20 for the charger and one pack if I remember correctly. I have two battery packs so I always have one charged and ready to go when my other gets low.
Secondly I'd recommend picking up Gears of War/Gears 2. Its a great game series and definitely a different feel than a FPS. You might want to pick up Forza 3 as well. Its an awesome game with almost infinite replay value. Mass Effect is another unbelievable RPG. For $50 you can get Mass Effect 2 and recieve Mass Effect 1 for free. Not a bad deal. If you like JRPG's then Lost Odyssey is one you might like. Check out Live Arcade games such as Peggle, Braid and Geometry Wars Evolved. So much fun and addicting. You have alot of catching up to do.

I would have bought another ps3 just to have to look at, instead of buying that stupid cheap piece of crap syestem known as xbox 360.  thats my advice, but uhh yeah have fun with your purchase..

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Great choice on the 360! Get yourself that recharable battery, it's a money saver!
As for games, it seems to me that you are a bit old school, so I would highly suggest the Sega Collection that features like 30+ genesis games. Also geometry wars retro evovled 2 *MOAN*. Puzzle Quest is a fun rpg/puzzle game... surprisingly addictive!

Beyond all of that, I have found that for single player I have put the most time into the following games: Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 1&2, Too Human, Crackdown, Ninety-Nine Nights, and Oblivion. Each of those games should yield at the minimum 40hrs and on the upper end several hundred hrs of gameplay.

Also, as a side note, since your a new owner you might not know one of the more nifty features of the console.. My favorite one by far is the ability to stream music from your PC or NAS directly to the system whenever you want. This is sweet since you do not need to install any music or software on the 360, you just go to the dashboard and my music and find it through the network or you hit the center button on the controller and find it in the mini-blade system. It only takes moments and it can make any game that much funner!

Thanks for all the replies! Some of these games I'm familiar with and have been considering (like Mass Effect) and others I had heard about a long time ago and forgot about (like Ninety-Nine Nights). Yeah I think I'll get a battery pack because it sounds simple and easy to charge it.

Is there any advantage to hooking it up via HDMI? Right now I have it hooked up via component cables. At first I didn't realize there's a switch on actual AV cable! (This is much better than the Wii, which gives you composite and forces you to shell out $$$ for your component cables).

Also, are there some cool titles for the original XBox that are compatible and worth picking up? Here in Taiwan there are some good retro stores that lots of old XBox games (as well as Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Boy, Wonderswan, Neo Geo CD, Famicom Disk System, you name it). I've been looking at Jet Set Radio Future, that games looks pretty slick!

Oh and special thanks to Barozi for the Regional Compatibility list. This helps a lot!

i would say congrats with your purchese i would recommend for jrpg taste get lost odyssy infinite undiscovery last rement , tales of vesperia , and if u import the us or european version u can get final fantasy 13 lol ..... for racing get forza motorsport 2 n 3 and project gothem racing 3 or 4 i personally like the 3rd better but yea lol .... fps gears of war series or halo 3 and modern warfare 2 hack n slash ninty nights 1 or 2 i think the second out not sure tho or devil may cry 4 etc

I would have recommended Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 & 2, but it seems like the NTSC/J version is not supported...

Jet Set Radio Future is cool though and would work.

Some other great Xbox titles, that will work with your console:

- Amped & Amped 2 (With SSX the best Snowboard game series)
- Conker: Live & Reloaded
- Dead or Alive 3 (best in the series)
- Fable
- Jade Empire
- Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- The Simpsons Hit & Run
- Soul Calibur II (also best in the series)
- Splinter Cell 1-4
- Tony Hawk's Underground

( from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360 )

Barozi - Thanks for the list! I'll check next time I'm downtown. Yes I should definitely give Amped a try, since I love SSX 1-3 (On Tour and the Wii version didn't impress me as much). In fact I recently bought SSX Tricky for the Gamecube and it brought back some good memories (I originally had it for PS2 years ago).

Oh, I have another question about the 360. Is it better to put it on its side or leave it upright? Right now I have it on its side, and it's on a table, not tucked away in a cabinet or anything so it should have lots of ventilation. My Wii is horizontally laid on top of it but it's not blocking any vents or anything. And then my GameCube (with GBA player) is perched on top of the Wii.

Uberkiffer - My 360 is too far from my router to hook it up to the internet, but I was able to just plug my iPod shuffle into the USB port and listen to my tunes. The system is smart enough to turn off the game music while my MP3s are playing! That's actually a very nice feature for me. One of my favorite things about Zen pinball on the PS3 is that I could 'zone out' and listen to my tunes while I played. Same for Excite Truck on the Wii. Now I can do that with all kinds of games! Very nice!

I also noticed that the "OS" of the system is very snappy and responsive. Sometimes on the PS3, when I try to access the XMB and it's busy loading something, it just gives me a "do not enter" symbol on the top left. But it doesn't matter what the 360 is doing, every time I push that big button in the center, the menu (I think it's called the blades menu?) comes up right away.

I'm also getting more used to the controller. I'm used to Playstation/Gamecube style controllers where the bottom of the 'handle' goes into my palm. But with the 360 controller I find I just need to grip it a bit higher up on the side, so that my index finger can touch the battery pack. Then my thumb is in a good position to play Pac Man CE and not suffer any undue stress.

congrats on purchase, you will find many games you like just have a look around

good for you, I don't know your taste, so its up to your disgression