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pearljammer on 29 March 2009

1. The noise. My 360 was manufactured in 2008 and has been identified as having a falcon chipset and a Samsung disc drive but despite being a fairly new model, it's still unreasonably noisy. Sure, I could just install to my HDD but that leads me to my second point...

2. The extra components are too damned expensive for what they offer. I was lucky with my 20GB one with the $30 refurbished deal, but 20GB is hardly enough space when trying to reduce the noise.

3. No wireless adapter included. Living in an apartment where my router is on a different floor and is shared by several others makes it highly inconvenient to lack a wireless adapter. Running wires through walls and floors doesn't exactly excite many landowners.

4. Fee to play games online. Admittedly, I'm not a huge online gamer so this one is more of a filler to inflate my list to ten complaints.

5. MS Points. They're just terrible. I hate everything about them; how they have an unnecessary value to them; how you can't simply buy enough to cover the costs of what you are intending to purchase; and how you can't have any refunded back to you from any excess left.

6. The D-pad. It's bad. Not much need for discussion as it seems near-universally accepted as such

7. Batteries for controllers. Most electronic devices these days have their own internal rechargeable cells...

8. The start button is too close to the 'X' button! I'm not sure if I'm the only one with this complaint as I have never seen it brought up before. Although it doesn't happen as often as it used to when I first got a 360, I'm finding myself pausing a game at times instead of doing whatever function 'X' is supposed to provide.

9. No optical out. Not a major complaint, but I really wish there were.

10. Disc tray? Why not a slot-load? Evidently, I'm having difficulty coming up with any more.

Only 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are of real concern to me. The rest are there either to fill the list or are of little importance to me.



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dbot on 29 March 2009
MonstaMack said:

1. When Sony lets you play lag free and does something about cheating let me know. Also you can play all the old XBox games over Live. Worth it for $30 a year imho (I never pay above $30, thanks to deals and what not and at the worst you should pay $40)

2. What's wrong with batteries? If you get high nimh ones they last pretty damn long.

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There is no more or less lag on the PSN or Xbox Live.  Most of the online games use peer to peer networking. 

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

masschamber on 29 March 2009

RROD
no market place download for any or all of shining force 3, though the wii and ps3 are equally guilty of this
bad d-pad
Turtles, Cheaters, and other half wits on xbox live,
Stupid ignition waiting until 2010 to release King of fighters 98 ultimate on the market place

other than that I'm pretty happy with the 360



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NOW A PUNISHER CAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DiplomaticImmunity on 29 March 2009
Undying said:
Go troll elsewhere.

 

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Garnett on 29 March 2009

Guys i want what you guys suck about the Xbox 360,its not trolling its your opinion!



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Badassbab on 29 March 2009
Garnett said:

1.Xbox live-(WtF my friend has to PAY for XBL when he is over a few times a month and we are on the same fking console,really MS?) Nothing wrong with offering a premium service but online gameplay should be free imo.

2.Batteries -Really? Honestly Batteries? What's wrong with batterries? How else do you expect them to power the controllers. I use official rechargable 360 batteries. Maybe they should become standard but look at the cost for PS3 controllers. A good deal more expensive.

3.Rumbling DVD drive. Fair point. It is loud (inc the fan) though I heard newer consoles are more quiet.

4.Everything cost MS points,just about everything at least,can i get a (Good)free track for GH WT? No dam.. Perhaps Microsoft should implement a loyalty reward system. I bet you have to buy that track on PSN too.

5.No reward for buying GOLD,Cmon MS give us 500 MS points for every 3 months we buy of XBL,plz? There is a reward. We download demos etc earlier than everyone else plus we get discounts.

6.Wired stix suck! The cord somehow got bent and well if you move it anyway it comes unpluged,not really unpluged but disconnected cause the wires are messed up. Stix? You mean controller right? I've never had problem with plug and play wires coming apart though they did stop recharging my controller (both of them). THAT sucked. Hence I bought a play charge kit.

7.Hype? MS didnt play L4D at all,an exclusive to the Xbox 360 console but they dont say crap about it,show it off its an AAA game,or any other big games besides Halo and Gears,why MS why? It came out on the PC at the same time plus maybe because you liked it so much you couldn't see enough marketing no matter how hard they tried EVEN though it has notched up over 2 million sales.

8.Where is my Slim 360? Up your own a**e. Only kidding! But seriously some people just want the world.

9.Where is my Blue Ray addon? See above. Just buy a Blu Ray player if your that desperate...or a PS3 if you don't mind paying hundreds. You get to play PS3 exclusives.

10.Can i have downloadable Xbox 360 enhanced games,you know games that have improved graphics over the DVD version due to more space? Hmmm, market is not ready for that yet. If a single sided dual layered DVD holds over 8GBs and games using this already cost millions to develop, how many people are willing to pay over XBL or buy enough points over the counter to download something that will cost even more than standard games already cost. It simply won't be worth it for the consumer or the developer. Also current Xbox HDD are 120GB max. Furthermore there won't be any major improvement just because of extra HDD space being utilised. That requires a more powerful architecture.

 

My honest opinions what are yours?

I'd like to add the reliability issues plus this wireless signal right that Microsoft owns. So third party companies with their  SFIV controllers are wireless on PS3 but not for us 360 owners cause MS says no.

 

 






rhisc on 29 March 2009

No downloadable retail games. Come on all Platinum Hits games should be for sale online as a download.

Needs a bigger HD. They need a 500gb or tb drive that is reasonably priced. Combine that with the complaint above and I'd be set.

Power brick. What is with that huge friggin power brick. Is this from the Commodore 64.

Noisy as hell. Installing games to the HD helps but the fan is still annoying.





shinyuhadouken on 29 March 2009

I'm curious to see your ps3 list.........NOT.



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smbu2000 on 29 March 2009
pearljammer said:


9. No optical out. Not a major complaint, but I really wish there were.

To get optical out on the 360 you need to purchase the "Xbox 360 HDMI AV cable"

Which comes with an hdmi cable and it also comes with another attachment(breakout box) which has a red/white audio connection(e.g. rca), it also has a digital optical out connector(toslink).

The combo(hdmi cable + audio breakout box) also comes with the 360 Elite if you purchased that. That was one reason I picked up my Elite, as I have the digital optical out on the 360 connected to my 5.1 surround sound receiver.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-HDMI-AV-Cable/dp/B000UODATY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1238359033&sr=1-1

"Product Description
The Xbox 360 HDMI Cable provides gamers with separate audio and video connections via the included Audio Adapter. The Audio Adapter allows HDMI video to be routed to the HDTV with the audio routed SEPERATLY to the home speaker system. Without the Audio Adapter the video and audio signals are both carried by the HDMI cable. This means users without an HDMI receiver (new/costly) must listen to their Xbox 360 game and movie audio via their TV speakers. * One wire for both digital audio and video * Experience high definition movies and games at up to 1080p resolution * Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound output * Optical/RCA Audio Adapter included for non-HDMI supported stereo systems * 2 meter (6.5 feet) shielded cable"




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Orca_Azure on 29 March 2009

The only thing I don't like about the 360 is the fact that it didn't come with Wi-fi like the wii or ps3. I don't much like having to use that add on.