Xbox 360 purchasing dilemma?

Question

With the release of halo 3, i want the xbox 360 more than ever. I recieve news that the failure rate for an xbox 360 is about 30%. Even the store clerk for eb games tells me to hold off and buy it in a few months or so for xbox 360 v2, which will supossely will have only 5% failure chance. What should i do? Are the statistics true? Does anyone have problems with their xboxs? i need opinions plz

Answer 1

i guess you should wait. the ring of death is a big problem w/ 360's

Answer 2

The employee is right about the 360 having at least a 30% failure rate. The employee, however, is wrong about the 5% failure rate for the version 2 because the version 2 hasn't been released yet, so there's no way to say what the failure rate is. The problem is that MS doesn't know what's causing the ring of death. If it does, MS employees are really good at keeping it from the public, which I doubt because reporters have a way to finding things out.

The other problem is that there are different versions of version 2. Is the premium with HDMI output consider version 2 or 1.1? What about when the 360 gets the 65 nm chip? Would that be consider version 2 or version 2.1?

Why are people making such a big deal about the ring of death. If you want the 360, go ahead and buy it. You have a 3 year warranty from MS. If it breaks, that just means you won't be without your 360 for a month or so. Big deal. Find something else to do. Play outside. Play the PS3 or Wii. Go to the mall. Go to the arcade, if they're still around. Play with your friends. Interact with living people.

Answer 3

And what'll happen, when you'll pass Halo over and over again? Think into the future.

Let's compare PS3 and XBOX 360:

Almost a third of XBOX 360 are malfunctioning right from the start. PS3 return rate is only around 0.2%.
Let's compare them

PS3 has 7+1 kernels in Cell processor, Xbox 360 -only 3x2
PS3 uses advanced tech called Blu-Ray, one disc can store up to 54 gb (in the future - up to 200 gb), Xbox 360 - regular dual DVD (9.5 gb).
Calculations per sec - PS3 - 51-billion-dot-product-operati... per second
Xbox 360 - 33.6-billion-dot-product-opera... per second
PS3 has full media support - USBs, built-in card reader (except 20 gb version), ability to use printer and so on.
Xbox 360 has USBs and only 2 memory slots.
PS3 supports up to 7 Bluetooth Controllers
Xbox 360 - up to 4 Controllers
PS3 - wi-fi included (except 20 gb version)
Xbox 360 - wi-fi will cost you around 100 $

Graphics are stronger in PS3, due to RSX chip, that was developed by Nvidia exclusively for PS3. To estimate its power (roughly) - take 8600 Ultra nvidia graphics card, multiply it by 2 - get a result, still PS3 stronger, because 8600 Ultra runs on 400 Mhz and RSX runs on 550 Mhz.

PS3 has a chip from AGEIA company. It does to physics of the game same thing GPU (videocard processor) does to graphics. This card is on sale for PC. The price is around 350$.

Xbox 360 is widely known for so-called "red ring of death" problem - it gets overheated easily. My PS3 was running for more than 8 hours non-stop with no problems. Sometimes Xbox 360 becomes so overheated, that thermopaste on CPU melts, drips on motherboard and successfully shortcircuits it.

Besides all of this, I've seen disassembled Xbox 360 - regular PC architecture - Billy Gates is an uninventive nerd (as usual).
When I saw disassembled PS3 - it was a surprise - smart architecture, good cooling (don't buy external PS3 coolers - they make everything worse - original system is good), etc.

In 2008 we'll get more than 300 games, including Metal Gear Solid 4 and other great exclusives. Here is the great link to the future PS3 releases. http://ps3.ign.com/index/release.html......

PS3 online world will be free, Xbox 360 - you have to pay.

In some countries people call Xbox 360 "Coffin 360".

The funniest thing, that right now there are no games for PS3, that show full potential of the console.

Sony expects PS3 to stay on the market for, at least, 7-10 years.

I didn't mention Wii, because it's so weak, no point to talk about it.