Xbox 360

[turb06]

Anyone else getting a 360 on thursday??

I will be at the midnight launch wednesday night to pick my unit up, getting PGR3 and Kameo. Anyone else?

Dazza.

[Dagabond]

I'll wait 3 months until there half price with a couple of games thrown in.....

[turb06]

youll be waiting longer than 3 months, they arent the last players in the next gen of consoles, so the price drop wont come till 2007 when either the ps3 or revolution are released here. Untill then dont expect the price to drop any more than $50, if that.

Dazza.

[Dagabond]

Damn </sarcasm> font misplaced again.....

[xrdreaming]

Not yet, I have played it a couple of times at eb games and the performance compared to all of the goodies I have on my chipped xbox and big hard drive, make it hard to justify the expense at this stage.

I will wait and see how the modding of them goes and in 6-12 months when the new releases start to come out on 360 only and not xbox then it will be time to upgrade

[mahoy]

Price will drop earlier for the 360 the PS3 is going to lauch worldwide in November 2006. For something like 400US Dollars.

[turb06]

a worldwide launch for PS3 doesnt include Australia, its japan and north america only in november with europe shortly after, we wont see it till around march 2007.

Microsoft did a worldwide launch with the 360 as well, and we are still waiting.

The PS3 also has a build price of over US$600, I dont think they can sustain a loss per console of US$200+ without charging a big price for the games, ther 3rd party 360 games are anywhere from $109-$129 each and microsoft are only seeing a loss of US$125 per console at the moment, factor in the higher media costs of blueray and the extra development time and money needed to program for the PS3 with its fancy but hard to use new processor and games are going to cost upwards of $150 each. Reports are also circulating that the PS3 wont ship with the 60gb HDD that's required to play games, so if you dont buy it at the time you get your console at a huge premium (close to $200 if you use the 360's HDD as a guide) then you cant play your new games on it, only your old ps2/ps1 games, so the PS3 isnt going to be cheap.

Dazza.

[turb06]

Not yet, I have played it a couple of times at eb games and the performance compared to all of the goodies I have on my chipped xbox and big hard drive, make it hard to justify the expense at this stage.

I will wait and see how the modding of them goes and in 6-12 months when the new releases start to come out on 360 only and not xbox then it will be time to upgrade

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you know if the tv at EB was high definition, its a big difference in the quality on a SDTV compared to HDTV with the 360, HD is just

Dazza.

[nang3]

hte only 360's ive seen being run at JB's etc have all been on SD not HD TVs.. still looked pretty good though !!

[Typhoon]

All I have to say is PC!