I have an Xbox360, and no problems have occoured, and i got it on the day of release, with Perfect Dark Zero, Project Gotham Racing 3 and Call of Duty 2, and i have been nothing but impressed by the systems capabilities, and the all round auro of the console, its more powerful than my computer, and my computer has a Nvidia 7800GTX graphics card, 64-bit dual core processors, and 2GB of ram.
The Xbox360 has 3 processors but each one is hyperthread, wich is the equivilant of having 6 64-bit processors, its got a special graphics card(cant remember it at the moment), and the ram is 512 GDDR3 ram, its a specialy developed peice of hardwarefor the 360. If you compare the specs of this console to its previous generation, the jump of performance was unbelievable. The Xbox(original) was more powerful than the PS2, and was playing games such as Halo 2, with only 64mb of ram!!! And to increase from that size of memory to 512, its a big jump. The ram on the 360 is also very flexible. It can split its 512 mb of ram into different levels, depending on what the game requires. For example, the 512 ram could be put into 256 for gameplay and 256 for graphics, or 100 for gameplay and 100 for graphics. It decides on the moment of play in the game aswell.
The 360 is so user friendly aswell, its system also encourages developers to develop games for the console, because it uses the same system as the computer.
I heard that the 360's were crashing but that was because they were abused, and over estimated on their ability to cool down its processors and graphics card. The processors would over heat and would blow up. But this was only after about 16 hours play constanty, and the back and side ventilations of the console were blocked up.
Some of the consoles are bound to be faulty, and full refunds or replacements should be given. But, if you think about it, the console is new and ahead of the competition. And only 0.1% of the console were faulty.
But Trust me, I spent about 700 euro on this machine and it is not a waste of money.
P.s. While im on the subject of Sony. Even though the PS3 is going to be one hell of a machine, that will probably be more powerful than the 360, it has the ideas all wrong. Game developers arent encouraged to work for them, and their ram is 256mb on graphics and 256mb on gameplay, the whole time. They have their machine upside down. Sony is become a name brand, if something has Sony then its the "best".
When Sony first came into the game console wars, with nintendos N64, it bought out all the companys, because it is the richer company. Now that Bill Gates has come along with the Xbox360, and with Microsoft at his side, he has the money to by out all the developers, like sony did to nintendo. Sony arent looking kindley to this. Bill Gates is loosing money over the 360 and xbox, because he is selling all the consoles at about half the price thay should be sold at, Sony is going into dept over the PS3 and are charging high prices for it.
Bill Gates will rule!!!
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