What 360 to get?

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#1 socem007
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my birthday is coming up and im gonna get a 360. What kind's are there and which one do u recomend?

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#2 cheezey_poofz
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Simply get a the Basic Xbox360. They are pretty cheap, they come with the console, controller, power cord, tv cords, headset that hooks into your controller, ethernet cord to go on xbox live and download demos and games stuff, which you story on the 20gb hard drive that comes with it too.

The elite cost about 200 dollars more, but you get the HDVD drive, it's black, it has an 80gb hard drive, and the controller is black, and yeh.

The basic is the best one, and as for games, get Halo 3 for SURE!! And if you are an RPG guy like me.. get Overlord, that game rocks xP.

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#3 socem007
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is the basic 360 the 360 pro?

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#4 woogity
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Simply get a the Basic Xbox360. They are pretty cheap, they come with the console, controller, power cord, tv cords, headset that hooks into your controller, ethernet cord to go on xbox live and download demos and games stuff, which you story on the 20gb hard drive that comes with it too.

The elite cost about 200 dollars more, but you get the HDVD drive, it's black, it has an 80gb hard drive, and the controller is black, and yeh.

The basic is the best one, and as for games, get Halo 3 for SURE!! And if you are an RPG guy like me.. get Overlord, that game rocks xP.

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The elite doesn't have an HD-DVD drive, and the HD is 120GB.
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#5 socem007
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woogity what are your recommendations?

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#6 blu_boy02
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Get the Elite. All the other models are trash! Talk about millions of dollars spent on fixing problems! I haven't heard any problems with the elite... might as well go all out buddy!
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#7 blu_boy02
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Dont buy the HD-DVD drive. Blu-ray is killing that format and you would just be wasting your parents hard earned cash. HD DVD has been losing all year, it's only a matter of time.
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#8 jeffrow925
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but paramount pictures ( one of the big 3 movie companies) signed a excluvise deal to release all their movies on hd-dvd only. and walmart is offering $200 toshiba hd-dvd players. so the format war is far from over.

as for the console there are 3 choices

Arcade $280, get wireless controller, 258 meg memory card, standard def cables, power supply and 5 free arcade games (worth about 30 bucks).

Premium (aka pro) $350 bucks comes with 20 gb hard drive ($100), hi-def cables, wireless controller, and they are going to bundle 2 games marvel ultimate alliance and forza 2 (60 bucks per game) with the system.

Elite $450 same as premium but comes with a 120 gb hard drive ($180) and is black in color

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#9 nintend-man86
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go to tigerdirect.com. you can get apro consolewith halo 3 for $319. but buy the pro
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#10 DHenze
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If you have an HDTV with HDMI support get the Elite.

If you are poor get the core system.

If you don't have HDTV get the pro that comes with Forza 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

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#11 atariferrari
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FYI the PRO now comes with HDMI as well, so that's that.
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#12 socem007
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nintend-man those ae refurbished systems
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#13 nintend-man86
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nintend-man those ae refurbished systemssocem007

so?

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#14 Allin2911
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[QUOTE="socem007"]nintend-man those ae refurbished systemsnintend-man86

so?

They've already failed once, and I would wager that the odds of yet another failure are far more imminent than a brand new console.

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#15 Legendary_Ross
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I have an Elite and the only thing I didn't like about it was not many matching accessories so I bought the Pro w/HDMI and am buying the 120 gig HDD. A more expensive approach but for all intents and purposes, a white Elite!

*And no I'm not taking it apart to see if I have 65nm!

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#16 nintend-man86
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[QUOTE="nintend-man86"]

[QUOTE="socem007"]nintend-man those ae refurbished systemsAllin2911

so?

They've already failed once, and I would wager that the odds of yet another failure are far more imminent than a brand new console.

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#17 Thombo
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Are the new ones less likely to break down?
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#18 nintend-man86
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probally not because there still running on the same chips if your comparing the same version of 360
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#19 Ket87
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If your not big into downloading things get the Pro with the 20GB, it if your going to be real big into downloading games and putting videos and music on your HDD get the Elite. I wouldn't recomend the arcade to anyone. Even if you don't hae live there is still a use for the hard drive. The memory cards don't even cut it for some games.