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I've given the XBOX three stars for the simple reason that it took them too long to do this. I've had two broken consoles, scratched discs and wasted money on various other products (2 wifi adapters, HD DVD drive and a bunch of microphones made from twigs and berries I believe). The new Xbox is great! It's very quiet, integrated wifi and it looks pretty. But they've been screwing me with inferior hardware since the original Xbox 360 release, so I don't know that this makes up for it. I think that they should have set up a program where you could trade in a wifi adapter, HD drive and a bricked Xbox for a new console to make up for all the pain they've caused. A three year warranty where they waited 2 months to send me a "new" Xbox (old one repaired with duct tape I think), wasn't good enough for me.

At least GameStop has a pretty good deal going on; that's the only reason I bought a new console. They took both my old 360s (I have two because they waited to put HDMI and the 65nm processor until later and my older one scratched disks sometimes), and both my wifi adapters (G and N upgrade), and some games which gave me enough credit to get the new Xbox and two new games.

I'm glad GameStop helped me out with this; otherwise I'd be even more frustrated with Microsoft. They put out a shiny new piece of hardware with all the problems fixed and left me stranded with two inferior boxes and old wifi adapters. It's hard to justify buying a new Xbox when you've wasted so much money on failed equipment in the past.

Funny how they can sell me a smaller console with a 250GB harddrive and integrated N wireless at 299 when they charged me 100 bucks for my wireless adapter 4 months ago.

I love Xbox and I prefer it to other consoles, but I"m sick of Microsoft screwing me over all the time. Between Windows Vista and all the failed Xbox hardware, I've had it. I'd switch to PS3 solely if the controller and live service was as good for me.

If my new Xbox fails, I'm going to have a stroke!

I know a lot of you will complain that it's not fair to give this three stars if it's a good product, but I would argue that it's fair to incorporate total costs and pain from other releases of the same product. This Xbox is basically what Xbox should have been 4 years ago and they've made me buy it three times, so I can't help but let that play into the review. This is not the Xbox 720, so I don't think it deserves a clean slate product review. If you bought a DVD and it wouldn't play, so you bought another copy and it wouldn't play and then they put it in a new package and you bought it, and it worked great, would you give it 5 stars?Get more detail about Xbox 360 250GB Elite Console.