The 360 thread!

[fog]

Multi format wars (graphics) - dont get your hopes up PS3 owners owners..http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?ar ... 241&page=2

An anti PS3 comment from you? Shock horror.

[Muttley]

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere...

Want to try the NXE before the 19th?

Caveat emptor, etc.

I bit the bullet and tried this last night as I can live without Live for a couple of weeks

Worked perfectly, and the new dashboard is very swish and much, much faster and easier to navigate than the original. I also tried installing Fable II to the hard disk and playing it from there, and that worked wonderfully as well. The combination of quicker loading times, and having no constant noise from the DVD drive is bliss. I will have to invest in a bigger hard drive though, as with Fable II taking up 6.9GB there's not a lot of room left with all my XBLA games and the Mirrors Edge demo (which I still haven't tried).

Hopefully I haven't permanently screwed my machine up and it will connect to Live and update properly on launch day.

Muttley

[Rod_S]

Multi format wars (graphics) - dont get your hopes up PS3 owners owners..http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?ar ... 241&page=2

An anti PS3 comment from you? Shock horror.

These nit-picky comparison articles from Eurogamer are fucking ridiculous. Seriously, can anyone get to the end of the first page without dying of boredom? Some of the worst videogames journalism I've ever read. Any credibility Eurogamer used to have is long gone.

[WiredWorm]

I suppose given the nature of the subject it's about the only fair way they could perform some kind of comparison. Using any other method would be subjective and, let's face it, everyones view is going to be different.

I don't own a PS3 at the moment but i'm sure that the tiny differences between two games on different platforms wouldn't stop me from buying a given title. To be totally frank I doubt i'd even notice many of the things they pick up because i'd be too busy playing the game instead of nit-picking over minor details.

[Flabio]

I tend to go for the 360 version over the PS3 one mainly cause I'm an achievment whore and I have more online friends to play against.

But if something is significantly worse on one than the other, I'll get it on the better platform. But it has to be a significant difference.

[Deckard]

Multi format wars (graphics) - dont get your hopes up PS3 owners owners..http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?ar ... 241&page=2

An anti PS3 comment from you? Shock horror.

Actually getting one for Xmas for the blu-ray and a few games that I do like on the platform - so as of next month I will have the holy trinity - just thought interesting that for multi platform games it seems to be the xbox which shines - give me 3 months with the PS3 and I'll find some far more satisfying things to moan about it I'm sure Perhaps Home might be my first....

[Muttley]

Oops. Just bought a 120GB drive. £89.99 from Argos.

[Phineasfool]

Oops. Just bought a 120GB drive. £89.99 from Argos.

Ouch, that's expensive.

[Mark]

I haven't checked the Marketplace, but today's XBLA game is apparently the port of Vigilante 8 for 800 MS points. There's a video in the following link - doesn't look too shabby:

http://www.xblarcade.com/node/2099

[Muttley]

Oops. Just bought a 120GB drive. £89.99 from Argos.

Ouch, that's expensive.

Yeah, it is. The RRP is £129.99 though, and most other places seem to sell it for £99.99 at the moment.

[benedictw]

The 60Gb 'pack' is up on Amazon for 60 quid. (here). Perhaps argos will flog em for 50 quid?

[Loada]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/245399/o ... d-59-99-c/

I don't want to piss on your chips (Muttley) but if anyone happens to have a Comet store nearby, this might be an easy way to get a cheap drive - most seem to be out-of-stock so it's really a case of luck, I suppose.

[chub]

I bought my 120Gb a while back for €109, which is about £88, but that was the cheapest I could find locally. I'm glad I got it though, which was for the space to install games with this NXE, but I'm especially pleased by the speed. My old 20Gb one took ages when accessing the Games Library for the stuff I'd downloaded, but this new one whizzes through.

Does the NXE have any indexing? I mean, I don't see why the current OS has to scan through all the downloaded games every single time I go to the Games Library.

[Phineasfool]

Oops. Just bought a 120GB drive. £89.99 from Argos.

Ouch, that's expensive.

Yeah, it is. The RRP is £129.99 though, and most other places seem to sell it for £99.99 at the moment.

That's just ridiculous. They are about $150 now in the US, so around 75 pounds. I can get a used one for around $75-$80. I know you guys pretty much always pay more for stuff, but almost double is just stupid.

[benedictw]

That's just ridiculous. They are about $150 now in the US, so around 75 pounds.

Make that about 95ish quid with recent exchange rates...