The local XBOX360 "sellout" on day one...

Originally posted by Eiksirf
I played some Perfect Dark on a standard def. 19" tv yesterday. I\'ll probably hook it up to the 56" HDTV tonight.

But so far, it just seemed like a regular Xbox game.

And I realized Nintendo is right. Pretty graphics are stupid. I want good, innovative games.

But I\'m hopeful that PD0 and Kameo are too good games. And I do quite want King Kong and to a lesser extent, Condemned.
-Dan

Funny.....out of those games, Condemned probably has the most innovative gameplay.

i found PD0 to be very sluggish
looked nice, but fluff < substance

Well, that kind of makes sense as they\'re positioning it more like spy games like Syphon Filter and the old GoldenEye.

It shouldn\'t be a speedy pure fps anyway.

Yea, I played the multiplayer lastnight some, it was decent but nothing special.  It\'s a nice change of pace from halo but it\'s still just a run and gun.

Originally posted by ddaryl
I\'ve got an Xbox 360 on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8236375532&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

I\'m estimating that there are about 29,000 + Xbox 360\'s for sale on ebay

Prices seem to be hitting the $800 - $950 mark and more with games, periphials and shippig deals.

Congrats on your sale.  Looks like you made decent scratch.

better hope it doesn\'t emit smoke and die

Originally posted by Sara
Congrats on your sale.  Looks like you made decent scratch.

YEAH !

I\'m very happy with the outcome.

I figured after all my expenses, My Xbox 360 Premium, extra wireless controller, Call of Duty 2, PGR 3. Cost me $270 after the ebay sale.

The buyer had the money in my PayPal account within 10 minutes of the end of auction. Of course when you run across an ebay user, named "christianboy" , and has 149 positive feedback at 100% its hard to think your are going to be taken for a ride.

The unit has shipped. USPS Express to Texas



The morale of the story is .... PRE-ORDER. You can always say no later on.

ddaryl, over 100% back in profit, that kicks ass!

I sold my PS2 on ebay near xmas and only got a paltry $450 (or maybe it was 550 I don\'t remember)  but I also had 0 feedback so it wasn\'t too bad.

Yeah, the Xbox 360 really doesn\'t scream innovation at this time and that\'s frankly the only thing that\'s going to hurt it.

Pretty much everything on it is a past-gen game with better graphics and the obvious gameplay improvements, with a few exceptions.

Normally, this would be prudent.. but with all of the promises from Nintendo and Sony\'s camps.. it\'s hard to get excited by a high-end PC in a silver box with a barely-altered controller. Although, if it ain\'t broke.. don\'t fix it.. and the Controller S was awesome..

Blah, I\'m bipolar over this system. In a nutshell, I think MS should rethink their philosophy a little.

Keep doing what they\'re doing, but cater more to the weird and the wacky as well. I get that feeling of "corporate" whenever I see the Xbox 360..

It really felt like all this console had to offer was good graphics and hopefully some fun titles with Rare, Condemned, King Kong, etc.

But just to throw it out there, the Xbox Live interface is way improved, and it was by far the best even before.

It\'s nice to be hooked up with Live and an HDTV. I\'m glad I forked over the cash.

For several thousand dollars and a bunch of set up aggravation, I can finally play a pretty co-op shooting game with a stranger.

Score.

..

Right?

Seriously, it\'s cool, heh.

-Dan

they have co-op PC shooting games on the PC, ya know.

just throwing that out there

I haven\'t even played my Xbox 360 yet. Waiting on my TV to be delivered.

I played for a few minutes using the composite cable option but not enough to really form an opinion.

But my initial opinion is that Xbox 360 will end up being referred to as XBox 1.5

i prefer the xbox 3DO, myself

or xbox "more of the same, but 15% better"

X360 factually has more and stronger Japanese developer support. A substantial difference compared to Xbox 1, imo.

MS is just really really early launching the console. That\'s why it seems like mediocre at this moment.

In a way.. it might become \'DC\'s successor\'. Who knows....

no dragon quest?  no sales in japan