Don't Buy the Xbox 360

You're exactly right, someone should try to build a computer for that price.

3.2 Ghz processor
20-gig hard drive
Top Notch Video Card
Ethernet
Controller

When you look at it that way, that's a damn good deal. The video card alone would be $400-$600.

But the point of the thread isnt that. XBOX is expensive, whatever 300-400, and so will the PS3. THey are not pricing high to make more profit, but to catch up the loss that they invested in new technology.

You're so very wrong on that one point alone that the rest of your argument is hardly worth the time to read.

A hint - read all the replies above and if you still have problems go and by some PC components to the same spec as the new Xbox.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175860,00.html

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager....=1&cId=3145154

Mainly like tons of other articles, they basically say that its just more expensive than you think.

it's all marketing. get the 299 system, you will, in the end end up paying what everone else is. 399. just to get it to play games.

it's also got the same old DVD format.

Remember ths PS2 launch? yeah, it was a 300$ dvd player, when dvd players cost 200 bucks. (shortly after, it was a 200$ dvd player + video game system, really shortly, few months as i recall)

The xbox 360? well its got a hard drive-less unit, a hard drive unit, and apparently a hd-dvd unit later on. gay.

Ps3? blue-ray drive on launch. $299.

Look at the dreamcast, and the xbox360. they are similar, ive seen articles of that failed system and such, compaired to xbox360.

on that note, how many back games on the xbox would i want to play?

halo? a mediocre 3d shooter with a GAMEPAD? or Fable? A short but fun rpg? Their online is tops, ill admit, but their games suck ass.

I'll hold my check for a ps3, and FF12/13, MGS4, GTA4, etc. etc. etc. etc.

If I was a parent, and oddly didn't own a PS2, I would for sure buy one for christmas.

what's better? a 500$ xbox 360, with 1 so-so game?

or a ps2 and a dozen award winning best sellers? sure super snarf man looks graphically good on x360, but man gameplay is gay.

I'd much rather have a GOOD game on the PS2 than a mediocre one on the xbox 360.

but then im a long time gamer, who knows my shit.

not to discount xbox360 will get a good game, eventually. but it looks stupid to me to buy it outright, with 0 good games. Comon, the PS2 has a giant collection of games which are fun as hell. the xbox has very little, and no japanese support.

everyone I know who likes the xbox plays sports games, and isn't much of a gamer. point proven to me.

based on 20 years of studying on systems, marketing, and an avid gamer, who knows people in the industry, Microsoft will have to work hard to get me to buy their system.

Their launch games all look like nothing I want to play. not a good selling point.

Not like im a sellout for sony, if the ps3 sucks and has crappy titles, i wouldn't buy it either, but still. With their japanese backing, and Rockstar, etc etc, im sure they will have a good launch, if they do so in spring next year, if they bypass the heating problem they encountered so far.

Sorry, my .02 c.

I see microsoft launching another dreamcast, and I see sony doing the exact same thing yet again which made the ps2 such a success.

Xbox people don't like to admit they outsell the gamecube be very little, and in the negatives in Japan by a huge margin.

360 Backwards Compatibility Lacking In Japan
Xbox 360 Not Hi-Def Enough?
How Bad Will The 360 Shortage Be?
XBOX 360=Dreamcast 2.0?
Microsoft Plans Deliberate Xbox 360 Shortage

all from slashdot, the #1 tech news site.

Your post doesnt make any sense and is contradictory. By building a computer at the price of the XBOX360, it would cost A LOT more than the price of the XBOX360. So by selling the XBOX at such a low price(in their perspective) they are in fact not making profit.

If it does not play the old XBOX games that i have about 100 of...then i am not buying one anyway....and i hear it does not....guess it is the PS3...

after playing pc games online, i dont know how anyone could sit and use a console to play games..