Xbox 360 Arcade
The Xbox 36o. What to say? This is an amazing gaming console. I’ve had a few run-ins with Microsoft and the Xbox 360 before, but somehow I felt this experience was different. I feel that with the Jasper chipset (The one in all the new Xbox 260 Arcades) the Redmond based Mega-Corporation may have finally gotten it right.
Let’s start off with the basics.
1st: This version of the Xbox 360 Arcade, the one with the Jasper Chipset, overheats a lot less. I got a good 12 hours in before my first freeze, where I had to restart and everything worked fine again. That’s the only time I’ve had to restart it.
2nd: The new Arcades are very quiet. The disc drives are a significant amount less noisy.
3rd: The new Arcades use quite a bit less power than their older counterparts. Even the external power supply is noticeably smaller.
Like I had already said, the new Xbox 360 Arcades fixed a lot of the issues that the older Xbox 360s had. This was a nice and welcome change from my clunky and obnoxious Xbox 360 Elite.
Alright, now on to the good stuff. The games.
The games for the Xbox 360 easily blow the PS3 and Wii out of the water. No question about it. Sure, the wii has it’s novelty games, and the ones that are great party games, but none that would be even remotely fun to play by yourself. The PS3 has a few select great titles: MGS4 and Killzone 3. The Xbox 360 has games like Halo 3, Gears of War 2, DOA4, etc, etc. There really isn’t any comparision.
The graphics are a touchy subject. Put simply: Any game that is exclusively for the PS3 is going to look better than any game that is made exclusively for the Xbox 360, due in part to the extra 40gb of data that blu-ray games allow. But any game that is made for both the Xbox 260 and the PS3 looks better on the Xbox 360. I don’t know why it is, but it is.
Online play is amazing on the Xbox 360. Does it suck to pay $5 per month for online service? Yes, it does. Would I rather have PSN? Absolutely not. There really is no online experience quite like the Xbox 360s. It is very socially based. I have over 50 friends on Xbox Live, whereas, in the time I owned my PS3 (around 1 year) I had a total of 3 friends. The Xbox 360 is a socially driven machine, whereas the PS3 is driven by multimedia.
The one major downfall to the Xbox 360: The cost of ownership. Want a wireless adapter? That’ll be $80. Want an extra wireless controller? That’s $50. Want a hard drive? That’s $120. Nobody but Microsoft has the rights to make certain accessories for the Xbox 360, which can really make the cost of buying those accessories very high. It’s definitely something to watch out for.
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