Not sure about buying a 360

My friend brought over his xbox 360 last weekend and we played Halo 3 online for almost the whole weekend and now I want one but I don't have $350 that I am willing to spend I looked at Gamestop and their used ones are $200 but there's no hard drive is it possible for me to buy a hard drive and just install it myself? or is there somewhere else that I could get one? Please help

-coolmage8)

How hard is it to install? I don't know much about hardware :( and if I buy it used are there games and things on it or is it all deleted or whatever?

-coolmage8)

How hard is it to install? I don't know much about hardware :( and if I buy it used are there games and things on it or is it all deleted or whatever?

-coolmage8)

coolmage

its easy to install u just put it in to ur xbox. there a spot that it connects to. and if u buy it used there could game saves already on it but u can just delete it.

Online it seems like everyone says it breaks but out of 5 or 6 people I know only one of them had their 360 break and it only broke once and one of my friends owns a PS3 and a 360 and he says the only thing good about a PS3 is you can use it as a regular computer. I think that you guys are just to rough with itcoolmage

My box sits on my desk nice and open area and is never moved and it breaks lol. Everyone I know except 2 has had to get a new on that being about 4-5 people in real life, and about 20-30 friends on XBL

yeah definitely the risk is worth it, 360s are extremely fun and addicting I have a friend who had both PS3 and 360 and the PS3 was more erratic and unreliable it started crashing and freezing so he said oh well got rid of the ps3 and kept the 360 and hasent had any problems with it since 2006, so yeah the risk is worth the chance from all the unbelievable games to the live service you cant go wrong I love my 360 and cant stop playing, the only problem is I gotta get more sleep and stop my playing time at 2am thats how addicting this thing is bro I say go for it I trust you won't be disappointed with it unless you wing your 360 off the roof into your neighbor's house during his afternoon nap. happy gaming all!! peace8)

Well I think I will go with a 360, I have owned a PS2 for about 5 years and it only freezes if you play champions of norath for too long but that happens to all my friends plus if you buy one with a warranty and it breaks you can get a new one for free my friend brought his 360 over my house by riding his bike with it over his shoulder and it was fine.coolmage

It is a good investment. I've had friends complain about hardware failure, only to sign on to live at 2 am to see that they're online and inactive (don't have a game in the tray or playing an XBLA game). In other words, they left it on all night. Just take care of it and you should be fine, though there are certainly exceptions, but MOST RROD have been the product of inferior hardware AND misuse, rather than hardware issues exclusively. Take care of it, and enjoy the games on Live. Regardless of what happens with the PS3 and the "console war," you can be sure that where online MP is concerned, Live will always beat PSN. By the way your post sounds, it seems like this is one of your major interests. Go for it.

I'd go for an Xbox. my neighbour has an PS3 that I've been on alot, but they don't have a huge amount of games for reasons...

besides, It's not definately going to break after a while, I've had mine for well over a year and the only time I got a RROD was when the power supply was really loose -

if you get a 360 just make sure you get an extended warranty

Get a 360 but get it new. I'm on my 3rd. Just plan on getting the RROD at some point and dont be suprised when you do. They fix it for free and it doesnt take that long. At least they are taking care of the problem for you. I have a PS3 and its cool but the 360 is much more fun.