Cheap Xbox 360 250GB Elite Console

It seems like Microsoft tries to sell you a new Xbox 360 every 3 months. No matter. It is still Xbox 360. Except times have changed.

Games are getting bigger. 3D televisions are starting to appear in stores for sale. The competition, namely, the PS3 is providing better and better value.

Reasons why this Xbox 360 deserves only 1 star:

1)Xbox 360 still uses DVD drives. Games are getting bigger and Xbox 360's DVD drive space has proven a limiting factor in terms of how much content developers are willing to put onto the disk.

2)Xbox 360 still uses a much weaker processor than the PS3. Xbox 360 is simply an aging console no matter what versions Microsoft keeps coming up with. As such:
a. you will not be able to play games that look the best.
b. You can't play games that sound the best.
c. You can't play LARGE multi-player shooting games(64 to 256 players).
d. To do all of the above you need the PS3.

3)Xbox 360 still charges you to play online. Even if you only want to play online once in a while. Even if the PC, the PS3, Wii, DS, PSP, etc. all allow for free on-line game play. Microsoft is showing corporate greed in its purest form.

4)Xbox 360 totally lacks any (decent) games in the following genres:
a. Play-create-share. PS3 has LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers
b. Massively Muliplayer Games. PS3 will let you play Free Realms, The Agency, DC Universe, Final Fantasy14, etc. this year or next.

5)Xbox 360 doesn't allow you to watch Youtube. In fact, you can't surf the web with Xbox 360. You can do 'em all with the PS3.

6)Xbox 360 still can't play Blu-ray movies. The PS3 lets you watch thousands of Blu-ray movies.

7)Xbox 360 won't support stereoscopic 3D in any meaningful way. So, as an Xbox 360 owner you basically can't watch 3D movies or play 3D games. With the PS3 you can, real soon.

8)Xbox 360 lacks enough 1st and 2nd party support to compete with the PS3. Google and compare PS3 exclusives to Xbox 360 exclusives. You will see that PS3 exclusives are more varied and look/sound/play more technologically advanced. Also, the PS3 has the two most critically exclaimed HD exclusives, LittleBigPlanet and Uncharted 2.

9)Xbox 360 is a very closed console when it comes to developer flexibility. As such, PS3 owners, not Xbox 360's, can download mods, upload saves, etc. to a central, third-party server. Because of Xbox 360's closed nature and PS3's openness, Valve has recently decided to bring Steam to the PS3, which is a very big deal.

10)Xbox 360 lacks any meaningful support for hard-core, motion-controlled games. Microsoft's Kinect is designed for quick, casual games that make it hard for you to sit down and play longer than half-an hour at a time .

11) Higher cost of ownership. Owners of Xbox 360 are more likely to pay higher costs for on line game play, hard disk drives, and controller batteries.

12) Microsoft has a history of abandoning Xbox supporters. Examples:
a. Microsoft released Xbox 360 when the first Xbox was merely 4 years old. Original Xbox 1 owners were left in the cold, unable to receive any meaningful support in terms of new games.
b. Xbox 360 owners who wanted to watch disk-based HD movies were encouraged to buy the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-ons. However, once Blu-ray won, these Xbox 360 owners were left in the cold. Despite changing Xbox 360 hardware several times, Microsoft simply won't Blu-ray, which has the best versions of in home movies, better than HD downloads, satellite, or cable.
c. To attract Wii gamers, Microsoft has decided to adopt a motion-control technology that is anti-hard core. So, all the Xbox 360 owners looking to play hard-core, motion-controlled games are left in the cold.

So, in this day and age, so late in Xbox 360's lifespan, why buy a console that is aging, unable to compete with the competition in terms of graphics, sound, multi-player size, Blu-ray movies, 3D movies, 3D games, massively multi-player games, play-share-create games, hard-core motion-control, etc.


What I have written will not please everyone, but I challenge you to do your own research. When you do so with an open mind, you will see that the faults I have listed for Xbox 360 are legitimate.Get more detail about Xbox 360 250GB Elite Console.