Should I buy an Xbox 360?

Here is a question, I am currently in Europe and want to buy a console to take back home to India in summer. Mostly for cousins and waste time when I am there for couple of months.

But don't think they have Xbox live thingy in India or even PS live I think. So is it worth buying XBOX 360 or PS 3 ? We don't have HDTV as well.

Depends if you play online and the type of games you play, there are some games more suited for network play.
 
One major pro of the 360. It has the Halo series exclusively.

Thats Halo 3 and another one, supposed to be set on what happened before Halo 1.
 
xbox currently shits all over ps3

til ps3 starts releasing games...and decent games at that..ill be sticking to my trusty xbox360

Halo3 baby..oh yeah
 
Playstaions online effort is appalling.

360 dicks all over it in every way.
 
Cons:

Noisy
Doesn't work properly
A complete rip off, and sneaky about it
It's crap

The noise really isn't really an issue, it isn't that bad.

Most of the consoles work properly, and if it breaks you can send it away to be repaired for free.

How's it a rip off? For what you're getting it's amazing, especially with the online play.

It's only crap if you don't like game consoles, which is fair enough. For people who do like them it's an amazing piece of equipment.
 
You can pick up pro evo for like £15 these days. The new one isn't out for around 4 more months so you'll get use out of it.

Rainbow6 is an amazing game which can be picked up for £25

Forza is £30 on play.com

Saints row isn't bad for £18 again on play.com

Dead Rising also on that site for £18 which is well worth it


There's shit loads of quality bargain games out there...
 
The noise really isn't really an issue, it isn't that bad.

Most of the consoles work properly, and if it breaks you can send it away to be repaired for free.

How's it a rip off? For what you're getting it's amazing, especially with the online play.

It's only crap if you don't like game consoles, which is fair enough. For people who do like them it's an amazing piece of equipment.

Well I have both and this is what think is a rip off about the 360.

I bought it at Christmas because the play station 3 wasn't out.

It puts small circular marks on the disks which cost 50 quid each and then they stop playing.I had it stood vertically.Microsoft said that these marks were made because the console was moving when the disk was being read.I laid the box down horizontally and bought another game.12 hours of play latter it stopped working because it has the same small circular marks.The games are being replaced and so is the xbox.

The play station games have worked fine since I bought it(to make up for the xbox being as my sons would say"crappy").

The guy who picked up my xbox to be taken away for repair told me he alone had taken 20 back.With this experience which would you recommend if asked on a thread on an internet site.
 
Well I have both and this is what think is a rip off about the 360.

I bought it at Christmas because the play station 3 wasn't out.

It puts small circular marks on the disks which cost 50 quid each and then they stop playing.I had it stood vertically.Microsoft said that these marks were made because the console was moving when the disk was being read.I laid the box down horizontally and bought another game.12 hours of play latter it stopped working because it has the same small circular marks.The games are being replaced and so is the xbox.

The play station games have worked fine since I bought it(to make up for the xbox being as my sons would say"crappy").

The guy who picked up my xbox to be taken away for repair told me he alone had taken 20 back.With this experience which would you recommend if asked on a thread on an internet site.
I've had mine 6months now and touch wood not had a problem, my discs are spot on the only one that has a circular mark on it is Rainbow 6 as my mate knocked the 360 while it was playing however it still plays perfectly.
 
If you want to waste your money, go for it.

How about waiting a while and then getting a bit of superior hardware in the PS3 (in waiting a bit it will have a lot of new software - there is shit loads about to come out for it), and you get a Blu-Ray player into the bargain. You cannot say fairer than that.

It's clearly not a waste of money.

How can you comment as if you have both consoles when I don't think you've even played on either?

I, However, can present an argument for the 360 being a better investment then the PS3 because I do have both....
 
people who have both(rich fecking bastards) say that xbox 360 is better?!?

Yes, time will tell though but the 360 is the better machine at the moment.

Plus it has a far better games line-up then the ps3.

And at the end of the day, especially to weaste, you can't deny the ps3 is going to be the better hardware and have better capabilites etc, but if it doesn't have the better games then what's the fecking point?
 
Yes, time will tell though but the 360 is the better machine at the moment.

Plus it has a far better games line-up then the ps3.

And at the end of the day, especially to weaste, you can't deny the ps3 is going to be the better hardware and have better capabilites etc, but if it doesn't have the better games then what's the fecking point?
agreed. But I'm still going to get one after the price goes down. It's worth it for the blu-ray player:D
 
I've had mine 6months now and touch wood not had a problem, my discs are spot on the only one that has a circular mark on it is Rainbow 6 as my mate knocked the 360 while it was playing however it still plays perfectly.

Good luck with it.

The thing I don't understand is that the kids use wireless controllers so there shouldn't be any issue with moving the console.
 
What's this blu ray player about then? What's so special about it?
well basically blu-ray players play blu ray discs. Blu-ray discs have a 25 gb storage limit which means when it comes to movies, alot more detail and better quality and when it comes to games; better graphics, endless amounts of levels but the down side with it is that it has single layer protection whereas the dvd has double layer protection which means that even a few scratches can stop the blu-ray disc from working