Yeah, that year head start really did wonders for the Dreamcast, didn't it?

BTW, we all have a 3 year warranty now. What could possibly be wrong with that?

The month or two waiting for it to come back?

It's usually a couple of weeks or so, according to what I read on other forums - inconvenient, but not fatal.

Me, I just bought mine from costco. My first Xbox didn't get the ring of death, but was locking up. Took it back, returned it, then turned around and used the costco cash card they gave me to re-purchase a new one.

Less than an hour. You just have to buy your stuff from the right retailer and you won't have problems :rolleyes:

The worst part of the process was moving my saved games off the hard drive onto a memory card before swapping the consoles. That's one advantage of the MS swap process, you keep your HD.

Try one week, according to my bro-in-law. Like DocNo said, it's a minor inconvenience, but it's for extended warranty. I wish my Xterra had that. I'd gladly let Nissan take it for a week and fix it up like new.

It's matching Xbox 360 sales from it's release; it's outselling the Xbox 360, currently.

In other words, they both sold the same # of consoles in the same amount of time. Games are what sell consoles; always have been. So once the christmas onslaught of games come this year, we'll see really quickly what game console makes huge gains, and which one just merely floats along.

My friend that bought one of the first gen 360s had his hard drive completely die. MS wouldn't cover it at all and made him pay several hundred to have it replaced.

They didnt make him pay per se', HD is client issue. Number one failure of HD is heat, how do they know where the device was? Maybe he left it on 24 hrs a day? Not arguing,, just saying, HD failures happen, if they did'nt, I'd be out of work.



MGJ

a) The hard drive is external b) a new Xbox 360 itself costs "several hundred". c) Microsoft charges a flat fee of $140 to replace anything wrong with the console. d) A new hard drive for the 360 "retails" for $100 and goes for a lot less on eBay. Don't lie and make The Woodlands look bad.

More problems for Sony

Ouch! Although I do thing the blog writers conclusions are a little on the extreme side, it's a pretty harsh vote of no confidence from a pretty important developer.

You do realize that it is nearly a year after release, and Wiis are still hard to find...

I am holding off on buying anything until Rock Band or Guitar Hero III is released... then I will likely buy a Wii...

until then I am happy playing NCAA 2005 College Football on my old Xbox...

Ha nismo I just saw your response to what I said. I was just repeating what he had told me. I cant wait till the guitar hero is out on the wii. I will buy that so fast

I'm planning on getting the 360 when Halo 3 comes out.

Like others have said, the games make the consoles sell, which in my case, is entirely true.

As it is, my Old School Xbox does jsut fine as my DVD player, which is what I use it for more then gaming, and although I plan to play the 360 more, it will likely replace the old box as a DVD player.

Let me revise that... Tell your friend to not lie and make The Woodlands (if that's where he lives) look bad.

Hard to find is an understatement in my area. From what I've been told, the few that come along are nabbed up by 8:30 am everytime they hit store shelves.

So is Guitar Hero everyone's game to own? I've heard it's a lot of fun, but I'm holding out for SSB Brawl in December. Right now Mario Strikers is keeping me occupied.

I've got a 360 back home, and I love it. I bought my Wii out here in the sandbox, and love that thing too. It is def going back with me and sittin next to my 360.

Umm, might want to revise that to say, "Still Sucks to be Sony AND Microsoft"... The Wii being the number 1 console in the world, outselling the Xbox 360 total sales, in less than half the time, is pretty damned impressive!

Guess we all (PS3 AND 360 fans) guessed wrong on this one.

Wii has the gimick of the motion controllers. That is why it is outselling everything right now. I played one this last week and while the gimick was fun bowling, and playing tennis etc it wasn't nothing to write home about with the graphics.

The wii doesn't appeal to me. It is just a repackaged gamecube with a new controller.

Don't let Wii sports be your sole measurement of Wii's graphics ability. Try Metroid Prime 3 if you get a chance. That's the flagship title at the moment and it's pretty cool.

As for why Wii's number one? $250 sticker. enough said.

Meh - at least MS broke even (so they claim). I didn't expect MS to take number 1 - but I certainly didn't expect Sony to remain number three - and by such a wide margin! I guess hubris really doesn't pay after all.

Nintendo kept it simple and followed their roots. They are not so gently reminding Sony and Microsoft that ultimately the majority of people play games - for the games and not the technical wizardry. We geeks tend to get hung up on crap like "it's just a warmed over game cube" (it's not) or "that controller is a gimmick" (it's not that either) but they are missing the point.

It's about the game play.

The Wii brings unique, fun and engaging game play to the table. And there are titles like Brain Age and the Wii sports that offer totally different experiences that are accessible to normal people other than shooting things and watching them blow up.

Heck, they are holding Wii bowling tournaments in nursing homes! Hand a six axis controller with a normal games button layout to a nursing home resident and they would probably throw it back at you. Hand them a Wii-mote and show them how to bowl with it, and they get it - because it mimics a natural action they already understand.

That's some exciting stuff. I hate memorizing button layout's and combo moves. I will force myself if the game is particularly good and I like it enough - but I like the idea of not having to use buttons that represent real world actions - when instead I could just mimic that real world action.

It will be interesting to see where the success of the Wii starts to drive the game industry. Perhaps it will finally encourage more people to think outside the box and move beyond the now plethora of brain-dead first person shooters...

Probably to where all the mid-90's movies took us and that's virtual reality. Just my guess.

Looks like Sony is gonna be dropping the price of the PS3 to $400 at the end of this month.

The new 40gig unit won't be backwards compatible and will only have two USB ports instead of 4, but I couldn't care leass about either since I have a PS2 and the only game I would really want to carry forward is Guitar Hero 1 & 2, which won't play on PS3s anyway.

I'm seriously thinking of taking the plunge this holiday season. I really want in on those online Warhawk battles!!!

Yeah, they could have dropped the backwards compatibility. I wouldn't think there'd be a huge demand for that, especially now that at lot of Gen3 games are on the market. Same w/ the USB ports. I use 1 for recharging the controllers, and 1 for the wireless adapter for the keyboard. The other two are pretty much useless.

You're funny... PS3 is selling at the same rate the Xbox360 did. Yeah, they've got a gap because they came out after the 360. But their numbers are just as good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) as the 360's did at its same age. Not to mention, now that Halo 3 has come, there's not going to be another big bump in 360 sales for a long, long time. PS3 still yet has it's big franchise games to come out.