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| From: Microsoft
List Price: $259.99
Buy Used: $64.99
You Save: $195.00 (75%)
New (15) Used (52) from $64.99
Rating:  276 reviews
Sales Rank: 290
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Pro 20 GB
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Graphics RAM: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.3
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 12.2 x 3.3
MPN: B4J-00107
Model: 360
UPC: 882224380751
EAN: 0882224380751
ASIN: B000UQAUWW
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 New Hardware Revision Delivers August 11, 2007
E. Soto (New York, NY USA)
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
The new HDMI enabled Xbox 360 is quieter and runs much cooler and has built-in HDMI. You wont have to worry about the red ring of death anymore with this model. Finally the 360 hardware has caught up with its AMAZING software lineup.
It took over a year and a half but now you can buy a 360 with a huge piece of mind.
 Cheaply made and questionably designed September 18, 2007
Edward Coughlin (San Diego, Ca USA)
18 out of 29 found this review helpful
First I will breifly make a distinction between the 360 as a system and the 360 as a game library. The game library is better then 2 stars, probably around 3 stars. There are a few good temporarly 360 exclusive games such as gears of war and viva pinata along with a number of multi platform games (COD3, bioshock ect) mixed with a lot of bad ones. I don't know if it's that the xbox 360 is inexpensive to develop for or what but the only systems that get as many stinkers as the 360 are usually portable (GBA, DS, ect). The big weakness of the 360 game library is an almost complete lack of quality exclusives. The 360 runs on very similar archatecture to a normal windows PC and as a result almost every 360 game is either simultaniously on the PC (bioshock) or released for the PC within a year or so (Gears of War). The only reason to even consider a 360 is if you fit two criterea A) you do not have a PS3 or gaming quality PC and B) you are impatient to get the few "timed exclusives" such as gears of war without the year wait to get a superior PC version. As it stands the only good 360 or original xbox game I can think of that wasn't ported elsewhere is dead rising. You can bet anything Halo 3 will be ported, the first 2 certainly were and microsoft is really trying to get the games for windows thing off the ground so.... If you want true exclusives look to the Wii and Playstations. Neither Sony nor Nintendo has any stake in the Windows market and as such are far more hesitant to let their exclusives go to the PC so if you want to play God of War, Metal Gear, Mario, Zelda or others the same wait for the PC version addage isn't true.
As far as the system goes I cannot describe how bad it is. I give it 2 stars only because of the game library. This is the worst console I have ever owned with the sole exception of the SEGA CD addon. The NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, PS3, Saturn, Dreamcast, TG16, Neo Geo, and even the original XBOX were all better made then this thing. I have a "new" HDMI xbox 360 (the one listed here) because my original 360 died for a 3rd time and I'm hardly a heavy 360 user. I've played it for maybe a few hundred hours over the past year but it keeps breaking inexplicably.
The 360 sounds like its an airplane taking off when its on, it overheats badly and often, the loading times are really bad and the overall construction cannot be described as anything other then shoddy. Overall the 360 has a 33% failure rate which is amazing high for any electronic device. Can you immagine any other device where a 33% failure rate is ok. Microsoft must have absolutely no QC department. As far as I can tell the current HDMI Xbox 360 hasn't fixed any of the problems my original 360 had and I'm guessing I'll see a red ring where the green should be soon enough. Also on the subject of cheap there is no built in wireless requiring a 100 dollar adapter, it cannot use 3rd party hard drives like the PS3 can so you can't put a 200 GB 2.5 drive in it for less then 100 dollars instead you must buy the microsoft drive which is extremely overpriced. You really need more then 20GB if you want to use downloaded content at all since over 12 GBs of the very limited 20GB hard drive are wasted by inefficient system software leaving you with the same ammount of space as the original Xbox. Additinally the storage media is very small relative to the demands of todays games leaving the 360 in the same spot the Dreamcast was in last generation with DVD storage which won't be able to hold the types of textures needed to stay current in 2-3 years. Already some Xbox 360 games such as blue dragon are up to 3 discs which precludes fully explorable worlds (since a lot of content can only be accessed via one disc or the other)
Some people can look past the poor construction and drastic limitations for the short term software choices. I made that mistake when I bought the 360 soon after release. If you own all other systems and don't have a quality PC owning it makes sense but I for one have never been more disapointed in an electronic device I've purchased.
 Great system, terrible quality! September 25, 2007
Alfred Giordano Jr. (Connecticut, USA)
18 out of 31 found this review helpful
I'm on my 2nd system due to the infamous 3 blinking red lights which is a very common problem with these systems. 1st time around, I was without my Xbox360 for over a month. It was a warranty repair, which Microsoft extended because all their hardware is junk. Got the new system, worked for a few days, and bingo! Same problem. Microsoft tech support are not helpful at all, rude and very hard to understand. Shame, the games are great.
Glad I bought the extra warranty October 7, 2007
Marlene P. Nice (Cincinnati, Ohio)
18 out of 35 found this review helpful
We bought the XBox 360 for a Christmas present for my son last year. By Easter it was freezing up during multi-player games and within another month it was freezing up constantly. Then came the green lines which grew. Luckily I had purchased a store warranty and it was returned. My son bought a Playstation 3.
Do NOT buy this! December 13, 2007
Dustin J. Palmer (Midland, TX USA)
18 out of 29 found this review helpful
I bought my very first xbox 360 back in June of 2006. I opened the box plugged it in and played for about 20 minutes when suddenly it stopped working. I took it back and received another one. This one worked well for about 6 or seven months until one day out of nowhere the dreaded "red ring of death" happened. I called xbox support and they sent me a box to ship it off for repairs. After about a month my 360 was returned to me and everything seemed to be working great. Six months later once again the "red ring of death" paid me a visit. Once again I called Xbox support and was on hold for over 30 minutes and got to experience the joy of an automated message telling me that due to the "red ring" they had extended there waranty on the 360 to three years of coverage. I was pretty upset having to go through all of this yet once again but I figured they know they have a problem and are trying to fix it with the new waranty. So again after about a month I got my 360 back. For several months it worked just fine, then all of a sudden it started freezing at the loading screens. Once again I called Xbox support, this time I was just about infuriated that this had happened to me yet again. I talked to their support person(that could barely speak English) and they told me that since the "red ring" hadn't occured I was going to have to pay $99 to have my 360 fixed. I have spent well over 2 thousand dollars on games, xbox live, and xbox live content and how am I repaid for my troubles? I'm told I have to pay even more money on a product that is obviously very flawed. I feel betrayed and now am stuck with a system I cannot use. As soon as I can save up the cash I am buying a PS3. Skip this piece of junk and spend your money on a product you can actually use!
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