My New Toy – XBOX 360 Elite

Posted on Mar 18 in Gamesby ApplePrint

It’s been almost 2 weeks since I got my new toy! I can’t believe I’ve been so lazy to update my blog here. Previously, I did mention about my XBox 360 Elite in Posterous.

It was a very sudden decision, actually made by Orange, saying that he wanted to get an XBox that very evening of 5th March 2010. Right after work, so unusual that we didn’t go home straight away, we went to tHe Spring shopping mall to intentionally find out more information about the console.

Game Mania, is the shop that we visited.

There are 2 packages available for XBox 360 offered by Game Mania – Arcade and Elite. Both modded version, which means you can play the *ahem* version games.

We decided to go for Elite. We were quite lucky to meet our friend, Peter. (Thanks, Pete!) He helped us to negotiate the price with his friend, and finally we could get the “best” price for XBox 360 Elite with an additional wired controller. (Orange insisted to get a wired USB controller so that he can use it to play games in his PC later)

We share among ourselves to pay for this console. After this, I’m almost broke! A total of RM1,560 has fled away~ This is the second time I hold that much cash in hand! The first time was when I bought my Sony T2 camera in December 2007.

What’s so good about XBOX? I don’t know. I’m so get used to Sony’s Playstation controller. Okay, here’s the main reason: XBOX 360 can be modded!! Whereas, Sony PS3, currently no mod is available~ You get what I mean?? I don’t think I can afford a game that cost average RM100 – RM200.

Only black color available. I thought of getting a white one.

3 original games were included in the package – Forza Motorsport 3, Pure, Batman Lego.

Other than that, we can choose 10 free *ahem* games.

Out of so many games, I chose to play Dante’s Inferno first. After all, this game is also one of the reasons why I bought the XBox. No God Of War in XBox, perhaps this is a perfect substitution.

I love the colorful buttons. But still, I’m not so get use to it yet.

Testing XBOX 360 in normal CRT TV. It’s really terrible because I can hardly read the in game instructions during game play.  Since I am not a full-time gamer anymore, I don’t have much time for games actually. So, just let it be. Next, I don’t think I can afford an LCD TV.

I’ll get a DVI-to-HDMI converter, a HDMI cable so that I can connect my console with my Samsung 743NX LCD monitor.

I haven’t touch my XBOX for several days already….

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One Comment

• rya says:

  March 27, 2010 at 8:29 pm

  congratz on doing good decision to buy an xbox! i’m sure u wont regret it. i’m still enjoying mine till today. but somehow xbox is quite fragile. so a hardcore gamer like me really have to limit my time of playing for only 2 hours per session. playing for long hours will make the “ring of death” to appear.so avoid it for any cause.anyway,i have the same prob like yours. playing xbox in small crt tv is such a pain in the neck. my only solution to this prob was i HAD to buy new tv..i mean larger screen to read the captions in the game.but somehow it worth the money though. i recommend Samsung. works great yet affordable.

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