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What is keeping you from getting a 360?

Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 will have hundreds of games worth playing and/or owning before the next generation is over, just like the PS2 and Xbox did.

If you haven't bought an Xbox 360 yet, I completely understand. $399 is a lot of money. At least wait until some of its most promising games are out and full-scale multiplatform gaming gets going.
 
Amir0x said:
PS3 has way more seemingly quality games in the pipeline, so I MIGHT be willing to get it if it were $399. But $600? **** off, PS3. I'll get a PS3 in 2013.
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And besides, you know there will be a PSThree. *hugs his PSTwo*
 
Lack of games with characters' names based around musical instruments with talking projectiles/spellbooks/statues/jigsaw puzzles/[insert item/object here].

Once there is a game that matches that description, I will buy immediately.

Subliminal ftw
 
It doesn´t, and probably never will have MGS, DMC, FF, Tekken (Yes, I have faith I´ll look end up looking good), and Heavenly Sword. Also, neither Halo nor Gears of War interest me, plus, I´m just not willing to pay $400 for it. For PS3, I´m willing to pay $500, for 360?? Not a chance. Maybe a few years down the line when it´s really cheap and if the RPGs on it turned out great. Maybe then.
 
olimario said:
Guess you won't get a PS3 either? And they look fine on sdtvs. HD is the way of the future. You better get used to it.
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I'm still buying a 360, I hope you're right and it looks good on a 20" crap TV over composite.

I know HD is way of the future you schmuck

And no I am not buying a PS3... maybe in 5 years
 
- Price is totally unacceptable... $400 console, $40-$50 controllers, $50 yearly for online play
- Not enough games I'm interested in (2D games, SHMUPS, on rail shooters, fighters, arcade style games)
- Doubt the investment would still be functioning in even five years
- Backwards compatibility doesn't work for Panzer Dragoon and Shenmue 2 (never had an original Xbox either)
- Not a deal breaker (a minor quibble), but the whole Media Center thing won't work with my Linux PC

A lot of changes are necessary before I'd consider picking up a 360 retail. When (if) the premium box is $199, controllers are $30 or less, and there are a minimum of five games that I'm truly interested in, I'll get a 360.
 
okay wait how have we gotten this far in this thread without saying something about olimario going out of his self imposed hibernation?

when i saw the title of this thread i was ready to come in here and ban some old thread bumpers, then i lookeda t the date and i was like what

eh nevermind.
 
Price

If I did own it now I would only have Oblivion and Perfect Dark Zero. I'll finally crack when there is a price drop, Halo 3 comes out, or more Rare games that I need. I don't think I'll be jumping into the next generation until next year, though. Too many great games coming out still for the PS2 and GC, too much money to invest in new technology.
 
the brick
the mostly male-dominated/western-developed games (there's a word for too much of the same thing: it's called HOMO)
continued manufacturing problems

i can live with how ugly the system is, and price isnt a problem. i think when lost planet and gears of war come out, i'll fold.
 
- Waiting for 360 to hit 65nm... cool, quiet, and lower power consumption matter to mean... the SPC enthusiast in me, I guess.
- Waiting for bugs to be worked out... I don't plan on buying a lemon.
- Very few if any games that appeal to me. Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Trusty Bell are the only ones at the moment that even evoke interest, and I have NO idea (and frankly little faith they'll turn out good... prove me wrong MS) if they'll even be any good.
- It just doesn't seem worth it, I'm not about to buy a 400$ console when I may only end up owning 2 or 3 games. MS needs to prove to me that it's a viable platform with a continual stream of worthwhile games. Otherwise, I'll simply wait till the price bottoms out.
- Price, as per the above reason.
 
Price to a certain degree, faulty systems, lack of HDTV, not enough AAA games yet.
May wait for a price drop, and some hardware revisions (that 90 to 65 nm chip size reduction, etc).
I still intend to get it before the PS3 though.
With the failure rates of the PS1 AND PS2, I will be waiting for a couple PS3 revisions, not to mention price drops.
 
VOOK said:
$649.99AU Hardware and $119.95AU games. The initial outlay for a 360 is too much at the moment, I can afford one, I just got to spend over $1k get all I want for it.

Plus I only got a Xbox 1 at the start of the year, still having fun with that.
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$650 for premium
$120 for 1 game
$30 for vga cable
$50 for another controller
$xx per month for XBL
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TOO FRIGGIN' EXPENSIVE
 
_leech_ said:
The hardware issues
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Definitely the main reason. And to date no one actually knows what is/are the chief cause(s) of the red lights. That tech support never explained the cause(s) is NOT reassuring - conspiracy theory: they're hiding something.

I'm looking at the defect rate of newly launched ~$300 state-of-the-art new mobile phone models. If these things can acheive that kind of low, near-0 defect rate, than that's what I expect from a next-gen gaming machine launched 7 months ago. (I'll excuse disk-read errors due to wear+tear+dust)
 
-=DoAvl=- said:
$650 for premium
$120 for 1 game
$30 for vga cable
$50 for another controller
$xx per month for XBL
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TOO FRIGGIN' EXPENSIVE
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What do you pay for a new PS2?
 
-=DoAvl=- said:
$650 for premium
$120 for 1 game
$30 for vga cable
$50 for another controller
$xx per month for XBL
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TOO FRIGGIN' EXPENSIVE
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$120 for 1 game!?!?
 
olimario said:
This is just an honest question. IMO, the 360 is totally worth it right now so I'm just curious as to why you might be waiting it out.

So what has to happen to get you to get a 360?

Is it a lack of Japanese support? Price? Faulty Hardware? Bias against U.S machines? Halo 3 not being out?
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I'm not going to give you some lame excuse. The honest answer is that I have a lot of hate for the Microsoft xbox360. A LOT OF HATE. Just pure seething hatred that can melt butter, fry eggs and grill squirrels, I'm beginning to hate anything with "360" in it.
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Aside from the oft-mentioned $399-plus-tax price tag?

XBox Live Arcade has yet to really come to fruitition. Geometry Wars undoubtably rocks as far as abstract top-down shooters go. But I own GarageGame's Marble Blast for the PC, and I really don't need an XBox copy with bump mapping - the game simply doesn't call for it. And as much as I like the idea that I can load up various games from the past on my console (and believe me I do, games need some way to maintain their staying power), I really don't feel like spending $400 so I can play Street Fighter again.

As for the games I could purchase at a big box store, eh... I have yet to see anything I can't already pick up on my XBox or my PC.
 
AZ Greg said:
$120 for 1 game!?!?
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Yeah $120AU = $ 89 US so roughly $90US for a 360 game. Man no game should be that expensive. But almost all new 360 games cost that much over here, even shitty ones. Though their prices tend to drop fast. Real fast. eheh.
 
I'd really like to pick one up, but it doesn't seem worth it until I have a hi-def viewing solution - my display only accepts DVI (apple cinema), so I'm hoping that they'll make a cable that supports digital video. Some of the upcoming games looks great though, esp. Lost Planet, Mass Effect and Bioshock (the concept behind this one really intrigues me). Also the hardware seems a bit spotty in the reliability dept. at this point, maybe the rumored revision + digital video out will force me to buy one.
 
Konnjuta said:
Yeah $120AU = $ 89 US so roughly $90US for a 360 game. Man no game should be that expensive. But almost all new 360 games cost that much over here, even shitty ones. Though their prices tend to drop fast. Real fast. eheh.
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Where are you guys buying your games from? You should do some shopping around, the 360 can be had for something like $618 at some places (dont know if thats still on), etc, etc,

All my 360 titles have been had for $80-90 (59-66 USD)... :D
 
#1 reason is that there are no games currently out on 360 that warrant the price tag for me. #2 reason is that I've read so many horror stories about broken consoles that I am worried about it happening to me (because that kind of thing always seems to happen to me). That's about it, I think.
 
$400, no decent game that really pulls me toward it, far too many threads about broken 360's for my comfort. I'll wait a year for a price drop and hopefully hardware improvement. Then the games should be there.
 
Well, there just ain't enough Japanese games which warrants the 650AUD price tag for me. Going by the last 2 gens, Sony's consoles offered the games which suited my tastes, so obviously the PS3 will be the machine for me(despite the launch price *ugh*)

But hey, if an unbeatable deal for the 360 does come along, then I may reconsider, but PSwii for me for the next 2 years.
 
1) $400 for a game system is waaaaay too much
2) As of yet, there is not a single game that interests me, yet
3) Lack of quirky little games that are just relaxing. everything is l33t and gotta watch your back kinda game play. (and, no, table tenis and geometry wars are not what Im looking for)
 
For me, I simply don't fit into the FPS/racer/PC console games market that most Xbox 360 games are geared to.

I like to try to find out about trends so I've been listening very closely to high schoolers and college students who owned a Xbox. They told me they won't buy the 360 because:

-Felt burnt that the Xbox 360 has ridiculous backwards compatibility.

-Still felt burnt after being disapointed with Halo 2. They are much more suspicious towards Halo 3.

-Price is way too high for them anyway.

-They don't see any 'must have' games for the system.
 
The top five reasons:

5.) It's way out of my league right now. I have way too many bills to pay to even contemplate spending $300 (let alone, $400) for a videogame system.

4.) The games at the moment are simply not interesting enough. I'm not saying that the system is filled with crap, but I am saying that there is, in my opinion, no one (and certainly not two, three, four, etc.) game that reaches out and grabs me.

3.) I know a lot of people disagree (and that's perfectly fine), but I really, really do not see the "OMG LOOK AT THAT" difference between Xbox 360 and Xbox yet. For whatever reasons (e.g., crappy developers, short development schedules, limitations of hardware), the games just do not appear to my eyes to be truly next-generation yet.

2.) I do wish that Microsoft implemented more truly new features, aside from all the online stuff -- most of which I can't really say I'm interested in at the moment.

1.) olimario endorses this system, so that gives me goosebumps and makes me think that the system may not make it another six months, even with Microsoft's financial backing. The olimario curse will wreck whatever plans Microsoft had.
 
The most common answer to this question seems to be "The games don't interest me." or "There's not enough games right now."

If the first is true, you probably shouldn't buy a 360. Action, shooters, PC-style RPG, racing are the big exclusive genres it seems. And that's most of what developers make, at least in the West. If the second is true, wait until 07. I wouldn't own an Xbox 360 now if I hadn't won one, because $399 is too expensive.
 
1. Price (I'm a college student and while I was mostly able to judge my laptop as a CS major, a game system I can not justify)
2. Lack of compelling software (althoug it's changing I can't help but wonder if it'll end up like the original XBox where I got most of what I wanted on PC/PS2 and ended up only really wishing for about 1 title)
3. My crappy TV
4. Hardware failure rate

FWIW I won't be buying a PS3 at launch for all the same reasons.
 
No standard motion sensing controller. I want next/new gen gameplay, and MS can't provide it with their inherently flawed human control interface.
 
Like most people said, the price tag is too high. Second, there isn't a single game that I want to buy that has been released yet. Chrome Hounds has my interest, but its not worth the price to buy the system for one game. Perhaps if the spiritual successor to Phantom Dust ever sees the light of day, I'll be forced to get the damn thing. If that never happens, then I'll never get a 360.
 
Kangu said:
No standard motion sensing controller. I want next/new gen gameplay, and MS can't provide it with their inherently flawed human control interface.
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That doesn't make any sense.

The applications for the Wii and PS3 are as very different, so far, and the latter has yet be used as the primary method for aiming in a FPS, which it really won't..
 
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