What's the deal with bay area xbox 360s?

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 05:56 PM
  #16  
brucelee's Avatar
Friendly Neighborhood Ogre
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 19,930
From: www.gunatics.com
Car Info: GUNATICS.COM
Originally Posted by bassplayrr
Damn dude, your PC outperformes a 3 core 3.2ghz PPC chip and runs higher resolution (720) and at a higher framerate? What the hell kind of computer are you running? I'm not trying to be a smart ***, I seriously want to know.

-Chris

Like 2 gigs of ram, 3.9ghz chip (I think), 256mb video card, 10krpm harddrive, and various other crap that I cant remember... I'm sooo not into computers anymore so I dont even remember half the crap I have, but I have not been impressed by the 360... the graphics and speed almost the same as my machine, I dont see a damn difference, but I can do a hell of a lot more with PC games, like download them for FREE, use cheat codes of all sorts, etc, etc.

Besides, you can't compete with a keyboard and mouse unless you're playing GT4 or something like that.

FPS = PC > *
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 07:40 PM
  #17  
sjt's Avatar
sjt
Registered User
iTrader: (2)
 
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,601
From: Outland!
Car Info: Seltos
i didnt even realize people were still lookin for these so far after the holiday season... you'd THINK Microsoft woulda learned from Sony's lame marketing ploy & just went for market share right off the bat.
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 10:11 PM
  #18  
WRBLUEballs's Avatar
Registered User
iTrader: (4)
 
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,113
From: In the land of the Hay.... WERD
Car Info: FUPA RIDER!
Actually Microsoft had to make 5 million 360's by launch date. Plus Microsoft didn't want the same thing happening when they launch the first xbox. The first shipment was all defective and there was a mass recall, but few knew about it. So microsoft have the 360's in production but distribution are low because they dont want to hurry the manufacturer to lessen defect. Even so there is 15% of 360's that were made are defective. Also that since sony anounced that they are going to release the ps3 by they end of this year Microsoft doesn't have any pressure cause there is no competition and they believe by distributing 360's slowly will create suplly and demand. Thus flooding the market before the PS3.

sorry i'm a game geek and I worked for GameStop . All this info I have came from the xbox Rep. -=P

Last edited by WRBLUEballs; Mar 20, 2006 at 10:18 PM.
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 10:20 PM
  #19  
VIBEELEVEN's Avatar
VIP Member
iTrader: (2)
 
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 5,120
From: Napa, Ca.
Car Info: 03 WRX
Man screw bb, I friggin' hate that place. please don't buy anything from thier HD, they treat thier customers like garbage.
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 10:21 PM
  #20  
Frestall's Avatar
Registered User
iTrader: (2)
 
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 459
From: Santa Rosa, CA
Car Info: 2006 WRX TR
I am on my third replacement 360 right now. They sent me a refurb as a replacement, that ****er died in just a few days. They promised me a new one now though, we'll see in a few days. They gave me a hard drive and 2 free games because of the problems, doesn't bother me much since I barely play it with my schedule at work and soccer.

And thats BS on the computer... I am running an amd X2, 4 gigs of ram, and 2 256 video cards in SLi and I don't think mine compares. Wait til you see Ghost Recon or Morrowind in HD, frickin awesome.

Last edited by Frestall; Mar 20, 2006 at 10:28 PM.
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 10:50 PM
  #21  
04caliwrx's Avatar
Registered User
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 9,581
From: on the way to lake tahoe to shread! turbo beast
Car Info: 2016 WRX, 2014 lifter forester XT, 2005 JDM207 WGN
Originally Posted by HellaDumb
So what does that mean. Is Best Buy hoarding them?
no well put them out and people buy them! 10 can go kinda fast
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 11:18 PM
  #22  
isr96's Avatar
Registered User
iTrader: (2)
 
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,034
From: the hood
Car Info: 2007 suzuki GSX-R600
i got mine around dec time by luck....just walking around in the store and the shipment came in... mine has like some kinda short in it. If i turn on the power button it doesnt show up on my screen. If i retry a few times it will eventually turn on correctly and load up on the tv...
Old Mar 21, 2006 | 12:27 PM
  #23  
pink-i-wagon's Avatar
Registered User
 
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 314
360s are supposed to roll in by the *** load according to EB around April 1st (not an april fools joke). Since PS3's been pushed so damn far off I broke down and got one. Wireless controllers with the power button sure is nice. If only I didn't have to bother with swapping dvds.

brucelee: I hear ya. I got back into consoles because I got tired of constantly having to upgrade my PC. Consoles have yet to match the keyboard/mouse combo for FPS and RTS games. If you only love those then consoles don't help.

Last edited by pink-i-wagon; Mar 21, 2006 at 12:30 PM.
Old Mar 21, 2006 | 01:06 PM
  #24  
brucelee's Avatar
Friendly Neighborhood Ogre
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 19,930
From: www.gunatics.com
Car Info: GUNATICS.COM
Originally Posted by Frestall
I am on my third replacement 360 right now. They sent me a refurb as a replacement, that ****er died in just a few days. They promised me a new one now though, we'll see in a few days. They gave me a hard drive and 2 free games because of the problems, doesn't bother me much since I barely play it with my schedule at work and soccer.

And thats BS on the computer... I am running an amd X2, 4 gigs of ram, and 2 256 video cards in SLi and I don't think mine compares. Wait til you see Ghost Recon or Morrowind in HD, frickin awesome.

I never said my graphics were better... I said it doesn't compare to a PC because its a console and you have to deal with their game system for any issues, have to buy extra crap to be able to use cheat codes, nothing is as smooth as PC controls, etc.

My grapics looks pretty damn close to the XBOX, I dunno whats up with your guys' PCs... Though the only game I can compare to is Call Of Duty 2.
Old Mar 21, 2006 | 03:20 PM
  #25  
zumnwrx's Avatar
VIP Member
iTrader: (6)
 
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,155
From: Alaska
Car Info: R.I.P 03 aspen white wrx
screw xbox and pc games

ps3 baby!
Old Mar 21, 2006 | 03:31 PM
  #26  
hokusai's Avatar
VIP Member
iTrader: (32)
 
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 1,948
From: under the baseboards
Car Info: a Ford
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/21/m...-supply-surge/
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
brucelee
Bay Area
37
May 24, 2009 07:47 AM
Simonster
Bay Area
36
Oct 21, 2008 07:22 PM
HellaDumb
NorCal Classifieds
1
Aug 22, 2007 05:26 PM
D E K R A
Wanted
0
Feb 6, 2005 09:16 PM
BongMonster
Misc Items For Sale
0
Nov 16, 2004 02:12 PM




All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:03 PM.