Xbox 360 console and Kinect for $100 with contract! - Page 2

Originally Posted by Lord_Zath

This system is horribly outdated. Why are they trying to use the 360 as an extender? So people will find other uses for their console. If it becomes a mainstay in the home theater AND a gaming system, its value increases at a time when games have reached their plateau in terms of what they can do on the system. Sony managed to do this with their PS3 from the start - its media capabilities vastly outclassed the 360 until MS started partnering with the companies you mentioned.

When was this console released? November 2005. So it's approaching 7 years old. It has 512 MB of RAM, 10MB of video RAM, and a triple core processor. Hard drives vary in size from the original 20GB to 320GB or 4GB of space. Cutting edge in 2005. By comparison, my 2011 netbook has 1gb of RAM, 256MB of video RAM, 500GB hard drive, and a dual core processor.

Does this mean the system is dead tomorrow? No. But it's widely believed that a new system is on the rise. If that's the case, then development houses are focusing more on that than current systems. It'll be just like when the PS3 was launched - PS2 games were still released, many with the same title as the PS3 but with fewer features/graphics - for $10 or so cheaper. I believe xbox did the same, but I did not follow it much as back then I had a PS2, then PS3.

Originally Posted by mboojigga

I love how you use the word trick. Like As if this isn't an option just like Wi-Fi was an option. No one was tricked or forced like fanboys like to state. You need to get out of this child mentality thinking. It is what it is for what it cost at the time. This is an optional route for consumers. I still don't get why Anyone cares how other strangers spend their money.

Originally Posted by mboojigga

I love how you use the word trick. Like As if this isn't an option just like Wi-Fi was an option. No one was tricked or forced like fanboys like to state. You need to get out of this child mentality thinking. It is what it is for what it cost at the time. This is an optional route for consumers. I still don't get why Anyone cares how other strangers spend their money.

Originally Posted by TyrantII

Have you ever looked at all your TOS, EULA's, Contracts and other legal speak?

If you read every single line of every one you're supposed to, that you have and will encounter during your life, you'd be dead before you finished.

And not everyone can afford lawyers to do so for themselves.

Tricked is as good a word as any. Yes people should be more responsible, but we're all only human. And using that knowledge of human nature against someone is trickery, when other plan spoken and written methods are available.

Originally Posted by Daekwan


Technically you can say that about ANY legal disclaimer. Its what any company does to legally protect itself from thousands of possible lawsuits. In this particular context he is absolutely correct. They didnt "trick" anyone. And theres no text in the TOS that you needed to be warned about before choosing rather to buy the $299 or $399 version of the system. I honestly dont even see how you got to this tangent from someone simply choosing which version of the 360 they chose to buy.

MS sold a $399 version with all the bells & whistles. And they also sold a $299 barebones version. The cheaper $299 version had everything you needed to play games, even online. If you so desired, you could add features like a Wifi connector, HDD or Memory card. What was so misleading about that? Ironically the full featured & bare bones concept worked so well.. that even Sony copied it when the PS3 was finally released a year later. Or did you guys magically forget that?

Originally Posted by JukeBox360

Did I miss something or are you just wrong. Since when did Sony do a barebones PS3 and an advanced version.

Ps2 playback and larger hDD? Don't think it's anywhere near the same concept as Xbox...

Originally Posted by Daekwan

Hell. I'll even save you some time:

http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/p/PS3Hub.htm

Sony has decided to market two versions of the PS3. One will have a 60GB hard drive, WiFi wireless internet, and the ability to read various flash ram cards. The $499 version features a 20GB drive, and does not have the aforementioned options. Both systems are otherwise the same.

Originally Posted by tgable

Ya, they liked the concept so much they copied it. They sold a $100 Wi-fi adapter, proprietary HD and proprietary flash memory? The lower end model was just a means to have a cheaper price point, not a Trojan horse to sell to gamers so they can ultimately pay more in MS branded add-ons. Sony originally announced the $499 version without HDMI, but ultimately left it in.

And yes the 20GB model did not have Wi-Fi, but very few of these models actually existed.