Just got an Xbox 360, educmacate me please.

turbotalon1g · 09-15-2011

So we got Samantha a new laptop because her old would make a lot of you cry. (we did already, lol)

Anywho, it came with a free xbox 360 4GB (i didn't know they make one that small). It's black and came with one controller.
She really wants to get a kinect, but basically I don't play video games anymore and all I can do use basic features with these things.

I just heard that I can just plug in my external HD and watch movies from it. (Something you can't do with PS3

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Anywho, advice appreciated as always.

viridionplague · 09-15-2011

thats about it. its not a media monster like the ps3 is.

basically you got an over glorified dvd player that can play movies from a hard drive assuming they are in a format that microsoft supports.

you can do netflix and a few services like that assuming your signed up for them.

and with not being able to plug an external HD into the ps3 and watch movies from it. no you cant do that with a ps3. the ps3 just does it wirelessly and supports a lot more formats.

if your not going to use it for gaming, good luck with your new shinny paperweight.

blackawdtsi · 09-15-2011

You guys can always come over and try our Kinect before you throw money at it.

turbotalon1g · 09-15-2011

^Sweet we will have to sort something out.

mdost03 · 09-15-2011

Why can't you plug in an external hard drive and play movies from it?

311evo · 09-15-2011

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Originally Posted by viridionplague

thats about it. its not a media monster like the ps3 is.

basically you got an over glorified dvd player that can play movies from a hard drive assuming they are in a format that microsoft supports.

you can do netflix and a few services like that assuming your signed up for them.

and with not being able to plug an external HD into the ps3 and watch movies from it. no you cant do that with a ps3. the ps3 just does it wirelessly and supports a lot more formats.

if your not going to use it for gaming, good luck with your new shinny paperweight.

1. Yes, it's just as much a media monster as a PS3, only without the BR player.

2. It supports many formats. You can also stream movies, music, pictures, etc from your pc or mac using "windows media connect". It gives you a great interface to use on the xbox itself as well. You can also put movies on the flash drive and view them that way. You can also download optional media format expansions for your console right from xbox live for free.

3. You can use Netflix, Play-On, and Hulu plus. JUST like the PS3. Except that the 360 has ESPN as well, unlike the PS3.

4. We have had way more formatting issues and playback issues with the PS3 then the 360. Whenever we try to fast forward or rewind a video the entire playback gets completely messed up. The audio is off, the video speeds up and slows down sporadically. Etc. The 360 is easily a user friendly machine that is at least as capable of it's Sony counterpart.

5. It is better for gaming in my OPINION. There's no way to prove this, persay. But Xbox live has many more positive features then PSN. PSN has a free version, but so does xbox. Both of them lack nicer features.

I like both consoles, but I figured one extremely biased post should deserve a fair defense.

turbotalon1g · 09-16-2011

well I have both so i don't care adn teh PS3 is so old i will lose my ass on it and my wife wants teh Xbox for the kinect deal and I heard there a lot of good games.

Oh yeah and it was free so might as well roll with it.

thanks for the help. Any game recommendations?

tpunx99GSX · 09-16-2011

yeah i got the same one as you Aaron. It sits right under my PS3 until i get a new tv for the garage. then it will go out there for the summers to basically do media streaming from my central media server.
I still like my PS3 better. The xbox just seems to be lacking for some reason. to be honest, all i have done with it was the first day i turned it on, went through all of the setup crap, then watched a streaming movie. then turned it off and haven't turned it on again since. Main reason for this is due to the fact i haven't set up my Harmony ONE remote to interface with it. But thats just me being lazy.

311evo · 09-16-2011

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Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

well I have both so i don't care adn teh PS3 is so old i will lose my ass on it and my wife wants teh Xbox for the kinect deal and I heard there a lot of good games.

Oh yeah and it was free so might as well roll with it.

thanks for the help. Any game recommendations?

Depends what you like. Forza 4 is coming out very soon and should likely be the best racing game to date, given that GT5 was a slight let down from it's hype and 300 year devealopment.

Mw3 is coming out. Gears of war is fairly fun, also a new one coming out in a couple days.

There's a ton of fun games in the arcade too. All of them have free demos so just download a shit ton to see what you like. Multiple demos of real games as well.

Forza 3 is solid, and should be like $20 or $30 I would imagine.

turbotalon1g · 12-26-2011

Any recommendation for kinect games?

Im looking to pick the kinect up this week for Sam's Bday just need to find some good games to go with it.

89_Colt_GT · 12-26-2011

I have the 4gb 360, the HDD is almost full from the update that Battlefield 3 put out 2 weeks ago. I know somewhere they have pre-formatted USB drives for the 360. I'm assuming they cost 5 times more than their non-microsoft branded counterpart, I also don't know if you can plug in a standard flash drive or external HD.

My Vote is for the 360

**Kracka** · 12-27-2011

Sell it, buy PS3 since it's a 3D Bluray player and it can pull movies off your laptop over the network and play them on your TV (uses your laptop as a media server).

Super Bleeder!! · 12-27-2011

The xbox does this as well.

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Originally Posted by Kracka

pull movies off your laptop over the network and play them on your TV (uses your laptop as a media server).

**Kracka** · 12-27-2011

It doesn't play Blurays though. They'll both do Netflix streaming too.

tehehodi · 12-27-2011

Hook computer to tv, have wireless keyboard and mouse.

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Super Bleeder!! · 12-27-2011

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Originally Posted by Kracka

It doesn't play Blurays though. They'll both do Netflix streaming too.

Who cares? The days of physical media is dead. I own both systems and i've never bought a single bluray. HD Downloads and streams for the YEY

tpunx99GSX · 12-27-2011

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Originally Posted by 89_Colt_GT

I have the 4gb 360, the HDD is almost full from the update that Battlefield 3 put out 2 weeks ago. I know somewhere they have pre-formatted USB drives for the 360. I'm assuming they cost 5 times more than their non-microsoft branded counterpart, I also don't know if you can plug in a standard flash drive or external HD.

My Vote is for the 360

I put in a new hard drive. I actually had a laptop hard drive from an old laptop i had, it was actually really easy to do. Just flash the firmware of the hard drive and pop it in the 4gb 360. Just google "Upgrade hard drive on xbox 360." I now have a 250 gb hard drive on my 4gb free xbox.

mikefromMN · 12-27-2011

The kinect sports with bowling is pretty fun... not to get on topic or anything.

tpunx99GSX · 12-27-2011

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Originally Posted by Super Bleeder!!

Who cares? The days of physical media is dead. I own both systems and i've never bought a single bluray. HD Downloads and streams for the YEY

I buy blu rays. I got the Band of brothers/Pacific box set on blu ray. HD Downloads and streams aren't true 1080p.

tpunx99GSX · 12-27-2011

btw i like fruit ninja on kinect. but thats because i am a ninja.