Xbox 360 pros and cons

Xbox 360So we gave you more than 360 reasons why you gotta love the Xbox 360. Well, if those haven’t convinced you yet, IGN has made a sort of Xbox 360 review to give you a better idea on what Microsoft‘s baby is like, and maybe just maybe, it will also prod you to think to get it for Christmas, too. *winks*

Now, the whole shebang is five pages long (but you can click the “Read” link below to take a good look at the whole thing), so I’ll just give you snippets of it here. Basically, I’ll just give you a quick rundown of some of the pros and cons of the Xbox 360 mentioned by our source:

  • Hardware reliability: Shipping the console with a cable that does both composite and component outputs is a good move (as people have to scramble for PS3 and Wii cables).
  • Great titles such asGears of War and F.E.A.R., plus a handful of games to look forward on 2007, although the lack of exclusivity can be a bit of a letdown. But then again, high development costs prod developers to develop multi-platform games, so you can’t entirely blame Microsoft for that.
  • Xbox Live: Microsoft really did a great job on this one. Although same might say that paying US$ 5 for “an updated version of a 25 year old game” is quite pricey, you got to admit that US$ 50 per year is a good deal for all the benefits you’ll receive.

Xbox 360So we gave you more than 360 reasons why you gotta love the Xbox 360. Well, if those haven’t convinced you yet, IGN has made a sort of Xbox 360 review to give you a better idea on what Microsoft‘s baby is like, and maybe just maybe, it will also prod you to think to get it for Christmas, too. *winks*

Now, the whole shebang is five pages long (but you can click the “Read” link below to take a good look at the whole thing), so I’ll just give you snippets of it here. Basically, I’ll just give you a quick rundown of some of the pros and cons of the Xbox 360 mentioned by our source:

  • Hardware reliability: Shipping the console with a cable that does both composite and component outputs is a good move (as people have to scramble for PS3 and Wii cables).
  • Great titles such asGears of War and F.E.A.R., plus a handful of games to look forward on 2007, although the lack of exclusivity can be a bit of a letdown. But then again, high development costs prod developers to develop multi-platform games, so you can’t entirely blame Microsoft for that.
  • Xbox Live: Microsoft really did a great job on this one. Although same might say that paying US$ 5 for “an updated version of a 25 year old game” is quite pricey, you got to admit that US$ 50 per year is a good deal for all the benefits you’ll receive.

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