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Post by Retro GeezZer on Apr 21, 2016 13:17:35 GMT
Microsoft have announced that they will no longer be making the XBOX 360. I'm a bit surprised to be honest I would have thought it would still have legs in some sort of budget form, after all it has a huge back catalogue and let’s face it the game play and graphics aren’t that far removed from the new consoles, the 360’s online functionality is a benchmark showing how it should be done and yet to be matched by the current gen. RIP 360 you will now enter the archives of the legendry game consoles and stand proud, you did well my son. Link
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Post by flur on Apr 21, 2016 21:02:28 GMT
That is a rose tinted view Chris.I must've had 4 or 5 fucked up 360's.Great machine at the time,when it worked.In reality it was was worse than the PS3.We really needed Nintendo to bring it then and they did not.
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Post by Retro GeezZer on Apr 21, 2016 21:50:11 GMT
Yep good point I think perhaps I was wearing my rose specks, my curent 360 is my third i think, so best pack em away somewhere safe, because in 20 years a working 360 will be a very rare thing.
However you can't deny that amungst those 10 years there were some good times.
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Post by flur on Apr 22, 2016 6:21:26 GMT
I agree with the games etc,but the build quality was truly atrocious
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Post by Pigmagnet on Apr 22, 2016 8:33:21 GMT
I agree with the games etc,but the build quality was truly atrocious It improved, but it was certainly a balls-up of a launch, with machine reliability a lottery. If I remember right, they shipped with disk drives (the ejectable one, not the hard one) from a few different manufacturers and some were flakier than others. My first one lasted literally an hour - got it home and was in an early level of Call of Duty 2 when it just froze completely (entire console, not the game). Took it straight back and was so miffed at MSoft that it was a while before I chanced another one. After that I had 2 consoles to last its generation, which is acceptable enough. I had a PS3 that conked within a year, which wasn't a great advert for Sony. We won't know yet how long the PS4 will be 'current' gen but I'm not realistically expecting my first one to be the only one I'll need.
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Post by Retro GeezZer on Apr 22, 2016 8:50:05 GMT
I agree with the games etc,but the build quality was truly atrocious It improved, but it was certainly a balls-up of a launch, with machine reliability a lottery. If I remember right, they shipped with disk drives (the ejectable one, not the hard one) from a few different manufacturers and some were flakier than others. My first one lasted literally an hour - got it home and was in an early level of Call of Duty 2 when it just froze completely (entire console, not the game). Took it straight back and was so miffed at MSoft that it was a while before I chanced another one. After that I had 2 consoles to last its generation, which is acceptable enough. I had a PS3 that conked within a year, which wasn't a great advert for Sony. We won't know yet how long the PS4 will be 'current' gen but I'm not realistically expecting my first one to be the only one I'll need. Sorry I couldn’t take any more of the above in after reading that the Pig actually played cod! Will take a while to recover from that one.
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Post by Pigmagnet on Apr 22, 2016 12:12:24 GMT
Had to. There was sod all else at launch. Nowt wrong with CoD2 anyway.
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Post by Variable-Silence on Apr 22, 2016 18:58:26 GMT
Ring of death ! This was fixable providing you didn't let it fry too long.
Despite this it was a great console, the two I had served me well.
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