true but UPS is making a mint on the pickup and returns on this thing lol

No, Xbox 360s suck compared to old Nintendos. Old 386s could easily fry something if you put a single cable wrong before turning it on (ahhh, so much money spent learning how to build a system...), whereas a few months ago I accidentally unplugged the soundcard on my modern Athlon X2-based PC while in actual use (long story) and all components survived the experience just fine.

I had forgotten to put the screws in, then one day while playing some game I accidentally kicked my speakers' cables and POOF! my sound was gone. I nearly had a heart attack when I found out the reason but, as I said, everything worked fine once I plugged it in again (after turning the PC off, of course).

The only reason why i bought the Xbox 360 was....because...I ummm I'm not really sure to be honest. Bill Gates must have been controlling my brain. That's a good enough reason for me. As for playstation surprisngly I have no complaint. Other than the fact that every time there are quests over they want me to stop playing Zelda and start playing Grand Theft Auto. If you want to see a hooker get shot go to St. Louis (RAMS RULE ALL!!!) or better yet East ST. Louis but I wouldn't advise you to stay there to long. Now if you want to see a fictional badass stab a Dodongo then grab a Monster drink and sit on down. NINTENDO FOR THE WIN!!! But a close second is PC of course.

My original 360 was returned to Microsoft after it's RROD. It's replacement, lovingly named Elmo2, is constantly used for 8 hour gaming sessions, playing music, watching DVDs, and has never had a single problem of any kind.

The horrible components which were manufactured during the generation one phase of the Xbox 360 to help meet demand have cost Microsoft a lot of money, however they stepped up and offered free postage and repair on their console - even for people who were outside of the initial warranty. It shouldn't have happened, yes, but they've dealt with it in the best way possible in my opinion.

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Interestingly enough, most of Nintendo's consoles still kick ass - my N64 still gets a few hours of action once a month. Benefits of simpler technology and no optical devices.

Duck tape the hell out of it to the floor and prey there won't be an earthquake.

I may hijack the thread here, but something occured to me while reading this. Part of the reasons the older cartridge based consoles work still is becasue they use the cartridges and not optical drives like everything these days. Now correct me if I'm wrong but aren't cartridges essentially little hard drives that plug into a system? And the reason they stopped using those was because discs had more space yes? Well nowadays You can get a flash drive that can have like....64 gigs of space, so couldn't a rennaisance of cartridge based games be feasible and technically sound?

Well technically cartridge games never left us. Nintendo is still useing them with their Gameboys (greatest invention ever right next to the mid-nineties craze Tamagotchi WOOT WOOT). But as for consoles i think we are stuck with cds/dvds for now. But im optimistic about the future and hope for a flash drive type game console. And just maybe the next step after that would be you just buy a code and enter that into a console and it just downloads games onto a hard drive. Or maybe not download it on a hard drive but save that code into an account you create and you just play it over the internet seeing as how the internet is taking over our the world.

@Reaper- I would hate to hafta download every game I buy. It takes longer, its an inconvenience imo, I'd rather have a real game. And I dont want to have some distant gaming machine streaming the game to me from the other side of the world. THeres so many problems with that.

@ZehDon- Well that's a good point there then haha. I'd love to see it happen though. I hope it becomes cheaper to make those. Probably wont ever be cheaper than discs tho