Customer Ratings & Reviews

THIS THING SUX SOOOO BAD I WISH I NEVER SPENT MY MONEY ON IT THE FIRST HOUR I HAD IT THE RED RING OF FIRE CAME IM LIKE OK SO I RETURNED AND GOT ANOTHER ON I HAD THAT ONE FOR A WEEK THEN THE RED RING OF FIRE CAME I HAD THAT THING IN A COOL ROOM I PUT IT FACE UP SO IT COLD GET MORE AND I PLAYED IT 2 HOURS A DAY SO I RETURED IT AND GOT A PS3 I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH BETTER GRAPHICS MORE MEMERY FREE INTERNET PLAYSTATION HOME AND I LOVE THE BLUE RAY THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS PLAYING SONG WHILE I PLAY A GAME BUT THATS WHAT IPOD R FOR DONT GET THIS SYSTEM THE PS3 IS THE SAME PRICE AND MUCH BETTER

Xbox 360 Pros- I like their online service, called xbox live, I tried it free for a month, I like the HALO franchise Cons- Doesnt Play Blu-Rays which will be the new standard in a yr or 2 No wifi adapater, cost me 99.99 to add a wifi adapater? Are you kidding me? They cost about 6 dollars to produce and come as a standard on the PS3 120GB is the max Hard Drive out right now for their system Their downloadable media, which since they are not shipping to stores so they should be saving on shipping and packaging, costs the same as if I bought it in store I find this confusing. Xbox live is an additional 50 dollars, now their service is nice but only has a few features that make it better, PS3 Online service is FREE, yes FREE Xbox Reliability is still in question after 3 yrs, systems still fail, it made me think twice about picking up the system, the best buy sales person said they still get them returned using their best buy warranty on a consistent basis, Xbox does have a 3 yr warranty though, but makes you wonder why they made it 3 yrs? I go back to the store and take a look at a PS3 PS3 Pros Plays Blu Rays Free Online Service Sleek and Reliable system Swapable hard drive of any size Wifi Built In Cost the same as an Xbox with more features Cons- Online isn't quite up to par of Microsofts yet, I like the controller on the xbox better So if your considering both systems and your a grown adult, who spends money wisely go with something that offers more for your money, doesn't nickel and dime you and is a reliable system go for the PS3 Slim, I was really impressed with this model and features Regards

The xbox 360 is a great system! it is loud and it may get RRoD but those are the only problems. infact one cool thing about the 360 is it has a 4 year warrenty with micrososft so you dont need to buy one at the store. if you get the RRoD just call up microsoft and tell them and they will fix it for you for free and renew your warenty for free as well GREAT customer service. it doesnt have bluray and also doesnt need it people may say oh you only need one disc with the PS3 but i find swapping out the discs better than having to waste memory installing the game to your system like you have to with the PS3. Xbox live isnt free but it is ONLY $50 a YEAR most people make more than that in a day of work so its nothing to complaign about and besides you get what you pay for. you get the most features, xblox live is MUCH faster than playstation network its MUCH more user friendly and more focused on making it as easy as possable to play with your friends...or watch movies with your friends overlive or even just talking. on the playstation you can have text chats...yay...xbox live you can have 8 player party chats with voice and everyone can be in a different game. on playstation network it gets annoying sending messages to your friends bc you need to add a head line than go in a type your message and send than go back to you inbox read the message...you get the point. also the system is more user friendly, ill start with the playstation, if you switch tvs to a TV that can support 1080P than go back to a tv that can only do something like 1080i or lower you have to change the settings FIRST befor you change TVs otherwise your stuck with no signal and if you dont know how to reset it your out of luck. on the otherhand with the 360 its automatic it sets the resolution to the highest the TV supports automaticly. i can go on for a while about the 360 but i will say it has the best game library, the best online capabilities, most user friendly, and not to mention the most fun out of the the bunch

The x-box 360 Elite is probably the best game system out there. And now with that super attractive price of $299, there should be no reason to hesitate. Games look fantastic in 1080p on my Panasonic plasma. I know some people don't like the 360 because you have to pay to play online, but it really is worth it. And it's not that expensive, either. You get one month free anyway, so why not give it a chance. As for what is included, the wireless controller is great. I would recommend getting a rechargeable battery pack if you are a heavy user, but that certainly is not absolutely necessary. The headset gets the job done, but feels a little bit cheap. You should hook it up with an HDMI cable for best results. The only thing that really is a turn off for me is the lack of wi-fi. Even though it's easy enough to hook it up via ethernet cable, the lack of wifi gets annoying when you want to move the system around. The game selection is great, there's a game for anyone of any age. A great console overall.

Went through 3 of these already, gave up on it. My first launched unit died about 3 months after with RRoD, after that the 2nd one did the same, and then the 3rd one too. Got the refurb and sold it on EBAY. Never looked back. Micro$oft has a poor history of hardware with this gaming system. Avoid it like a plague. Moved onto the PS3 and never looked back. Graphics are the same as the PS3 so thats why it deserves a 4, Functionality gets a 3 when its working. It's so loud when its whining up to read the DVD. Performance, its great when it doesn't die on you or after a update happens! Value for the price? Save your time and just go for a PS3 from the start. Saves less hassle with the customer rep. It seems as the years goes by Micro$oft support for the 360 diminishes!

I bought this for my brother when the price came down to $ 300, we brought it home and hooked it up and let him play with it for a couple of hours and after 2 hours it already started getting hot so i told him to take a break just for the systems sake. besides that his fan is loud, im not paying to get a xbox gold membership for him when he can just play on my ps3 for free, plus i already have an xbox.overall the price is good, you get a nice amount of space, but the system just doesn't match your requirements, if anymore problems remains down the road we may just take it back and get the slim ps3

I love the new black color and the graphics are great. It plays regular DVD movies. I wouldn't have mined a blueray player. Microsoft is still having problems with over heating, I hope this one won't overheat on me like my first one. Going to need batteries for the controls unless you buy a recharge station. The system is pretty loud while is playing a video game or a movie. In all I love my system the way it plays the games and the graphics look awsome and it controls great.

I bought an X-Box 360 because I'm sick of the absolutely ridiculous requirements that come with PC gaming. That era for me has ended. You purchase a new machine and its outdated after a few releases. That's the number one reason to get an X-Box. Even when a new version comes out, they will still make games for the 360. You have nearly unlimited gaming capabilities and minus storage space, which is easily condensed, if you want to play it, you can play it. PROS: * Play any game designed for a 360 and you know its going to work. Forget any stupid requirements for you PC. PC gaming is so yesterday. * Play online (with an adapter) with people all over the world. * Huge harddrive space on the elite (when are you ever going to have to dump something out? Think about it). * Track achievements and compare to other gamers to see who dominates in what games and categories. * "The red ring of death" has supposedly been fixed. * The price just dropped $100 to compete with PS3. There is no better time to buy. * That's pretty much it. If you have one, or you've seen one, you know whats involved and what they're capable of playing. CONS: * I hear you can't stand it vertically because if it gets bumped, it can burn a hole through your disks. So now it takes up 4x as much space to sit flat on the floor, however when its flat on the floor, its almost impossible to cover up any of the heat vents. * Its loud. Mostly when I play Madden its as if you can hear the disk spinning around inside the console constantly! It can get very annoying especially on quiet loading screens. No doubt I would recommend this to a friend. If a noisy console is the biggest of problems I face, this will have turned out to be a perfect and flawless purchase.

This is a great system. The graphics are stunning compared to the PS2 that i upgraded from. Not too noisy in my opinion. It has the Jasper chip which I hope will help with the RROD problems. I considered getting the Best Buy service plan but when i talked to the sales person I learned that it is a comlete waste of money. If the Xbox breaks they will replace it with a REFURBISHED one. Then the refurbished unit only has a 90 day warranty. The XBOX already comes with a 1 year warranty and a 3 year warranty on three red lights(RROD) for the original purchaser. It got me thinking that if the refurbished replacement broke would Microsoft honor the 3 year warranty because it was not the unit i originally purchased??? The seal would have been broken by Best Buy to repair it (broken seal= no microsoft warranty). just a little food for thought. As of right now i am completely satisfied with my purchase. I dont expect it to last forever. I just want get my $299 dollars worth.

The majority of the games i have are only on the xbox, playstation used to have games that only came out for its console but they gave up their rights and now most of those games are on the 360 the only game playstation has now that i feel im missing out on is god of war, as far as the graphics no systems games are 1080 playstations graphics are alittle better but not enough to make it that much better, neither console is built to last but microsoft has better warranty protection any time i have had problems i send mine back and get a new one no questions asked, and you can buy an extended 2 year warranty and I would recommened doing so, as far as a blueray player playstaion has one xbox doesnt but I never watched movies on my systems cause it puts un needed stress on the system and makes them go out faster, I have a ps3 and its just sitting there gathering dust untill god of war comes out

After looking at both the 360 and the Playstation 3 we decided on the 360 because of the great game selection of games at reasonable prices. Although some of the early titles are now on Playstation 3, the prices for those titles are ridiculous. This is a step up from our Playstation 2 and once we had the HDMI cable, the graphics of the games improved so much. There's always the concern of RROD but we purchased Black Tie protection and Microsoft now offers 3 years protection from this issue. Sometimes games experience load lag but overall we're very satisfied. I was also a bit discouraged to learn I had to purchase Xbox Live to update some settings on the console but the benefits of the service are substantial. We also purchased a play and charge pack for the main controller as well as another play and charge controller, an HDMI cable, and a wireless reciever for our 360.

Great system, orginally I bought an arcade but I exchange it for the Elite, mainly due to the Hard Drive. Once you get online you'll find yourself downloading a lot more then you would expect. I'm probably online daily, playing L4D, on Netflix, or downloading tons of demos. Would have been nice to have the built in Wifi and rechargable controllers like a PS3, but those features are not as important as having the best online gaming environment availible. Well worth the 3 or 4 dollars it costs to have Xbox live. Though I mainly love the online aspect, there's plenty of games out there for the offline player too, Mass Effect, FF, etc. Grab a spring bundle, you'll love it!

i love this console. its awasome. alot of games. everything. u should buy it. but, it makes a noise thats a little loud when its playing a game disk. red ring of death is where it cant be fixed, and breaks ur console. but thats mainly from overheating. so buy an intercooler. im going to sometime.

okay the guy from texas is from pluto for making this statement " the games not in HD. it can't play Blu-ray."the system doesn't give the full gaming experience" DUH! of course its not gonna be in full hd if u dont have a hd t.v and use a hdmi for best picture quality. Xbox360 has the best gaming graphics on the market everyone knows that....and xbox360 been out for a while now so everyone knows by now that it doesnt play blue ray if you were so concerned about blue ray so much you should have went out to buy a lame ps3.. xbox360 has tons of things to offer and more is to come in the future for the xbox360.... i would definately recommend people to buy a xbox360

I bought this for my husband for his birthday and he LOVES it! He and his friends can't stop playing Madden '10. The graphics are incredible and the price was reasonable. Of course nothing is perfect. They used to give away 2 free games as a bundle and at the time of purchase, they were supposed to give me a free controller, but they acted like they didn't know what I was talking about. That kinda ticked me off, but other than that, we are totally satisfied. Online play is great as well. The box didn't come with hdmi cables, but if you dont have a flat screen, whats the point. It's not a necessity nor a deal breaker so it was cool. Overall, GO GET THIS XBOX!

This is my second xbox and my first Elite version. My Xbox pro is still running fantastic and has been given to my son so the Elite is my little upgrade. Considering the amount of entertainment I get from this, from games to movies, news and socializing with friends and family, this system gives a massive amount of "bang" for the buck. The Elite model I picked up is quieter than the pro, my understanding is the newer models have a quieter set up, so that explains the noise difference. The large hard drives allows me to install many more games to the system directly which lessons the stress on the hardware while gaming. Having it also connected via Windows Media Center to all my computers in the house, I can stream movies, music and photos to the main TV with out having to store them on the Xbox itself. The Microsoft Live interface is by far the best online gaming network around for the consoles, having done Multiplayer gaming between Sony's system and the Xbox, the difference is very noticeable and it shows how much money microsoft sinks in to the Live network. The Xbox elite would benefit from having wireless integrated in to the system, this does not affect me at all since I have my house hard wired with CAT6e to every room since I prefer gaming via a hard wire to help reduce lag even by a fraction. There are many though that could and would prefer to have the wireless integrated. One thing to consider though, is as wireless technology improves, systems that have a built in wireless adapter can find themselves behind the curve, an external adapter allows you to upgrade with a faster model, such as moving from a B to a N wireless adapter. So there is always a silver lining. Seeing as Blu-Ray won the High def war with movies, this is another area Xbox can improve in, not only does Blue Ray give sharper looking movies, but it holds so much more data for games allowing even more depth and sound. Overall I am highly satisfied with this system and would recommend it to anyone, especially for multiplayer gaming. It is a nice way to stay connected with friends and family that live far away.

I have both systems Graphics are the same. And both systems at times have problems with a little freezing. The XBox did the freezing the most, especially since when it freezes up You'd have to get up and power it down several times. Then the Nebraska Furniture guy told me that no matter what mine would eventually get the Rings of Death. I told him so far it hasn't happened and all was good. Spoke to soon. I now have no XBox, but, I took out warranty so I got cash back I will do what the guy told me. he said to not buy the best to just get the 199.00 cause eventually you'll still get the Red Ring of Death. All I can tell you is that both systems have problems and because of that always purchase more than a 2 yr warranty on both. If you don't your gonna go broke....

the XBOX 360 is in my opinion one of the best gaming systems on the market. thwe graphics are sweet and the games are to. i like online play and XBOX live is pretty cool and a good way to stay in touch with friends. the Elite is sweet because of the 120 gb memory that it comes with. it is more then enough space for a lot of games,music and phots or whatever you wantto store on it. i dont feel u need tio purchace best buys extended warrenty plan though. the factory warrenty is good enough and if you ever get the (rend rings of death) all you need to do is mail it back to microsoft even after the 1 yr warrenty expires.

First of all the Xbox 360 in general has many problems, like freezing, red rings, and overheating. I have it and it should be at least 50$ less because of a low reliability. I had an xbox 360 20 gb and it got the red rings, so I bought this one and it had a huge freezing problem the first week! I couldnt even play the game without it freezing on the main screen. It has nice controllers compared to PS3, they are less weird to hold, and work better. It is fast but slow compared to my ps3, the graphics are also not as good. I think you might want to buy a ps3 instead because its better.

The console us really great in terms of performance,graphics. This is my first xbox. I am very new to it. The set up is very easy. It took few minutes to set up the console. I am using HDMI cable and really graohics and sound quality is best. The console is quiet and cool after two hours of continous gameplay. The DVD rom have little noise but if you install the game on hard disk then there is no noise from dvd rom. Xbox live is simp0ly amazing and there is lot of stuff to play with. I would recommend this to all as it has huge collection of games and great entertainment box for whole family.