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Bitmap Frogs on 09 August 2009
C_Hollomon said:
Bitmap Frogs said:

Well, most of the trolls spam issues like those so in the end it's hard to discern between the true stories and those who are only looking to score points for the team. 

While the RROD is/was common enough, as far as I know the horrendous and deep circular scratches were a very small problem. If you are talking about just regular scratches, every cd/dvd drive out there scratches discs. Even my hi-end 1000€ CD player I bought in the 90's made small scratches here and there. It's the curse of optical media.

I still remember when they used to say that unlike analog media, optical media would last atleast 50 years, if not more. Hah!.

Yeah you right.  Gears of War and Madden 08 was my only 2 games that got the circle scratch.  I had to buy them both agian.  I had other games with scratches and some will act up sometimes but they still played ok.  I geuss the disc tray in my 360 at the time was bad.  Any way that was in the past.

If my PS3 or Wii had scratched up my games, I would say they did too but they didn't.  Some may think I'm trying to make the 360 look bad but I'm not.  Others have had the same problem.

 

You must have a magical Wii powered by faerie dust because my Wii discs get scratched.





Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).

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Salvador on 09 August 2009

As a former Xbox fanboy I recently discovered how perverse Microsoft really is. In 1998 Microsoft, Disney, AOL, and the Motion Picture Assosiation of America opposed the Child Online Protection Act which would restrict child pornography material on the internet. I don't know about you, but I find child pornography despicable and I will never again support a company that approves of it. The bill passed by the way.



slowmo on 09 August 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
C_Hollomon said:
Bitmap Frogs said:

Well, most of the trolls spam issues like those so in the end it's hard to discern between the true stories and those who are only looking to score points for the team. 

While the RROD is/was common enough, as far as I know the horrendous and deep circular scratches were a very small problem. If you are talking about just regular scratches, every cd/dvd drive out there scratches discs. Even my hi-end 1000€ CD player I bought in the 90's made small scratches here and there. It's the curse of optical media.

I still remember when they used to say that unlike analog media, optical media would last atleast 50 years, if not more. Hah!.

Yeah you right.  Gears of War and Madden 08 was my only 2 games that got the circle scratch.  I had to buy them both agian.  I had other games with scratches and some will act up sometimes but they still played ok.  I geuss the disc tray in my 360 at the time was bad.  Any way that was in the past.

If my PS3 or Wii had scratched up my games, I would say they did too but they didn't.  Some may think I'm trying to make the 360 look bad but I'm not.  Others have had the same problem.

 

You must have a magical Wii powered by faerie dust because my Wii discs get scratched.

Cricular scratches more often than not tend to be a result of moving the console during use, especially any less than 1 cm from the outside of the disk.  The other cause for scratching is a dirty spinner inside the drive, both causes an be avoided by not moving the console and keeping your disks and console clean.



Chris Hu on 10 August 2009

Looks like a good deal but with strong rumors that the pro might get discontinued their might be better bundles that include the elite 360 in just a couple of month. But then again those might not include the same quality of games.



badgenome on 10 August 2009
Salvador said:

As a former Xbox fanboy I recently discovered how perverse Microsoft really is. In 1998 Microsoft, Disney, AOL, and the Motion Picture Assosiation of America opposed the Child Online Protection Act which would restrict child pornography material on the internet. I don't know about you, but I find child pornography despicable and I will never again support a company that approves of it. The bill passed by the way.

Mmmm... yes. Microsoft approves of child pornography. Welcome to VG Chartz. I'm oh so glad you created an account to come and share this bullshit with us.

Unless you are, you know, an alt or something.



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Zizzla_Rachet on 10 August 2009
Xxain said:
ive been thinkin the same thing....XBL is so tempting

DO IT!

You will have tons of friends!

Me....(Not that that's a good thing)

LordMatrix

LunarHeaven

OutLwauron...

And many more...



 



Zizzla_Rachet on 10 August 2009

@ Op
Don't do it....You have to pay for XBL

/sarcasm



 



AkibaFan on 11 August 2009

get it

I have all 3 consoles

I can say confidently my PS3 is the favorite BUT the xbox 360 is cloose 2nd & without it I couldn't imagine this gen being so great



AshleyAc on 11 August 2009

Stick with your ps3. Unless you want halo, gears or left 4 dead apart from those games may aswell stay with ps



Wii_R2_Hardcore on 12 August 2009

Great deal. Do it.