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Munkeh111 on 13 June 2009
Steroid said:

I have an 09 360 and it is loud as hell. I'm not sure what others are experiencing. Could my 360 have been broken right out the box?

I am going to assume you mean loud... and my 360 is incredibly loud too, but I bought it about this time last year. If you want it to be quieter, install your games to your HDD, unfortunately, I can only install 1 at a time, because of the 13GB HDD, and I can't upgrade without paying ludicrous prices



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Steroid on 13 June 2009
Munkeh111 said:
Steroid said:

I have an 09 360 and it is loud as hell. I'm not sure what others are experiencing. Could my 360 have been broken right out the box?

I am going to assume you mean loud... and my 360 is incredibly loud too, but I bought it about this time last year. If you want it to be quieter, install your games to your HDD, unfortunately, I can only install 1 at a time, because of the 13GB HDD, and I can't upgrade without paying ludicrous prices

Lol I agree I'm not paying $100 for a 60 GB HDD c'mon man that's nuts!



MrBubbles on 13 June 2009

well, my friend who has been a sony only guy since ps1 has been thinking about getting a 360 recently. his reasons have been due to repeated ps3 failures that have resulted in him having to pay a relatively high amount to fix it (could have bought another ps3) it just broke again but it was still covered under the warranty from the last repair. and the only games he is looking forward to on the ps3 are MW2 and FF13(both non-exclusives). overall he has been extremely disappointed with sony this generation.
he said he isnt concerned with a possible rrod because microsoft has the 3year warranty and that my system only ever had problems once.



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Squilliam on 13 June 2009

I switched already. My automatic purchase of a PS3 really did blind me to the better choices out there for me. $1200 was what I paid for the 60GB and yet my $400 Xbox 360 which I share with a friend is better value, better value even if I paid $2000 for it. Even excluding which games go where the fact that I had my PS3 break twice and between having a massive game drought and then buying an Xbox 360 in early 2008 which already had such a massive games library it was enough to put me off Sony indefinately. I don't even bother checking the PS3 library in stores because its just so ingrained in me that PS3 = no games for me to play.



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ironman on 13 June 2009

Wow, it would seem nobody knows about the rechargeable batteries that come with certain 360 controllers. Also, I noticed a lot of MS hating in here...really? Can't you get over your silly, elitist, biased mind set? I mean really, the only person you hurt, is yourself. If you won't touch a 360, let it be for REAL issues, like game selection, or the feel of the controller? (graphics wouldn't count because they are now very comparable, XBL only costs $38.95 for 13 months...which is only 11 cents per day , RROD is a mostly fixed problem, and noise is not as much of an issue on the newer consoles)



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lilwingman on 13 June 2009

If Microsoft somehow landed Final Fantasy exclusive rights, I'd switch over (or at least buy one of their consoles).



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Steroid on 13 June 2009
ironman said:
Wow, it would seem nobody knows about the rechargeable batteries that come with certain 360 controllers. Also, I noticed a lot of MS hating in here...really? Can't you get over your silly, elitist, biased mind set? I mean really, the only person you hurt, is yourself. If you won't touch a 360, let it be for REAL issues, like game selection, or the feel of the controller? (graphics wouldn't count because they are now very comparable, XBL only costs $38.95 for 13 months...which is only 11 cents per day , RROD is a mostly fixed problem, and noise is not as much of an issue on the newer consoles)

You don't have to hate the 360 to prefer PS3 and vise versa.



ironman on 13 June 2009
Steroid said:
ironman said:
Wow, it would seem nobody knows about the rechargeable batteries that come with certain 360 controllers. Also, I noticed a lot of MS hating in here...really? Can't you get over your silly, elitist, biased mind set? I mean really, the only person you hurt, is yourself. If you won't touch a 360, let it be for REAL issues, like game selection, or the feel of the controller? (graphics wouldn't count because they are now very comparable, XBL only costs $38.95 for 13 months...which is only 11 cents per day , RROD is a mostly fixed problem, and noise is not as much of an issue on the newer consoles)

You don't have to hate the 360 to prefer PS3 and vise versa.

Did I say that anywhere? I was asking why the hate for MS? There are legitimate reasons for buying one console over another. Whatever gives you the best value. Hating one company or another, is not a legitimate reason, and that...was my point.



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Squilliam said:
I switched already. My automatic purchase of a PS3 really did blind me to the better choices out there for me. $1200 was what I paid for the 60GB and yet my $400 Xbox 360 which I share with a friend is better value, better value even if I paid $2000 for it.

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bobobologna on 13 June 2009
twesterm said:
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I have all three consoles and only prefer the PS3 because it runs quieter than the 360. I know people have all this hooplah over a possible PS3 slim, but I'd really like to see a 360 slim that doesn't make the hellish noise my current 360 has always been making. It'd be enough to entice me to buy the console a second time. I have no idea if it will ever happen and haven't really heard Microsoft ever make mention about a possible slim-line to the 360, but that's something I would definitely like to see and hope Microsoft has plans for.

My PS3 use to be quiet and my 360 use to be loud, but after replacing my old 360 with a new one, my 360 is as quiet as a mouse and my PS3 has started to be louder than my old 360.

legend92(3) said:
The whole reason i don't buy a MS console is because i don't want to support there goal of dominating the living room.

If you're trying to be ironic, this is genius.

Staude said:
legend92(3) said:
The whole reason i don't buy a MS console is because i don't want to support there goal of dominating the living room.

This is certainly one of my reasons aswel. I don't want microsoft to gain monopoly on more aspects than they already have.

 

Another thing is the money to play games online. As a avid pc gamer for many years, (and not a player of monthly fee mmos) the mere suggestion that i'd have to pay twice for my internet annoys me. :p

 

If someone gave me a xbox 360 i would keep it. But i don't think i'd go out and buy one. Again i have a pc so i can play most 360 games anyways... And yes i can play them on my hdtv cause my pc is hooked up to it :p

About the price thing, it's like $3 a month.  If you can afford a $300 console, you can afford a $3 monthly charge.

For that $3 you get a pretty reliable and fast network that runs much better than the free one.

I'm not going to rant and nothig against you, I only happened to see you say it first, I just hate that excuse.

The 360 does have its problems (RRoD, no built in wi-fi, Arcade doesn't have optical out) as does every other console but it's a pretty good console if they'd take only take the fanboy blinders off.

 

It's not an issue of being able to afford it.  I mean, let's get real, anyone over 16 can afford $3/month.  The problem is that I take issue with the principle of what Microsoft is doing.  Basically you are paying Microsoft to hook you up to other consoles and from there, you are using only your bandwidth and the bandwidth of other users.  Microsoft doesn't use any bandwidth for multiplayer games.  I would not mind paying for XBox Live Gold if Microsoft hosted the servers, ensuring lag free games for everyone, instead of possibly getting hooked up with a laggy host.

And since almost every multiplayer game is done peer to peer, it doesn't matter if the Microsoft network is faster than the PSN.  Because it makes no difference once you get in game.  The only difference is if you are downloading something, in which case, Microsoft does seem to have the upper hand.  And the few games that do use dedicated servers, it's up to the developer/publisher to provide servers, NOT Microsoft.  So Frontline's dedicated servers for the larger games are hosted by THQ, not Microsoft.

It's like I'm paying Microsoft for some bottled water.  Then they go into my house, fill up a bottle with my own tap water, then hand it to me.  That's the problem I have with XBox Live Gold.

EDIT:  Oh, and none of the XBox360's come with an optical out on the system.  If you want to use HDMI and optical out, you have to pay for an adapter (using the optical out on the HD cables blocks the HDMI port).