New Xbox 360 for christmas!

[Melvin]

Got the kids (9 and 6) a wii for Christmas. I figured Mario Kart was more appropriate than a zombie massacre. 

They're loving it, but does anybody know of any titles that a grown-up might enjoy? I figure on getting Goldeneye (always had a soft spot for that one) I saw Black Ops is out for the wii as well. Any reviews on that one?

<S> Melvin

[Tupac]

I played CoD 4 on the Wii and I wasnt impressed. Wii sports seems to be pretty popular with everyone, my dad is 60 and he loves to play sports resort.

(also you might enjoy Mario kart, it's really addicting.)

[Melvin]

Yeah I've been having some fun w/ Mario Kart too. In fact, the wife is on her way home with another controller and steering wheel set-up. 

Time for some head-to-head action this afternoon.

[Tupac]

Just keep the strap on the wiimote on, my friend put one through his brand new 42" samsung. He was NOT happy

[Tyrannis]

In all side-to-side comparisons I've seen, the Xbox 360's graphics trump the PS3's by a fairly pathetic margin.
I don't get involved in console wars generally because they're even more stupid than OS wars, but from what I understand the PS3 has a bunch complex, impressive sounding hardware that in reality is nearly useless, which is why the Xbox 360, in practice, generally produces better results.

From personal experience, the online experience is better on the 360- almost no one has a PS3, and, after all, the only point to having a console is to play with your friends, as console games are crap.
Also, the Playstation controller is way too small and the joystick positioning is terrible.

Wii may as well be the best option due to the fact that there's more 'party' games that are fun to play with multiple people that are physically together, also due to all of the just-plain-fun Nintendo games available for it.

LOL dear god please tell me you did not just say the 360 has better graphics than ps3. if you did, all credibility of that whole paragraph just got flushed down the toilet. all of it.

[Tupac]

LOL dear god please tell me you did not just say the 360 has better graphics than ps3. if you did, all credibility of that whole paragraph just got flushed down the toilet. all of it.

Killzone 2 definitely had the best graphics I had ever seen on a game, and Killzone 3 is the reason I kept my ps3.

[JOACH1M]

LOL dear god please tell me you did not just say the 360 has better graphics than ps3. if you did, all credibility of that whole paragraph just got flushed down the toilet. all of it.

Dude xbox DOES have better graphics considering I have both, I only got a ps3 to watch movies off Netflix and because it's jailbroken so I can do challenge and derank lobbies in CoD

[Motherland]

LOL dear god please tell me you did not just say the 360 has better graphics than ps3. if you did, all credibility of that whole paragraph just got flushed down the toilet. all of it.

For the most part, they're nearly indistinguishable, on some games the PS3 does better and on some the Xbox 360 does better.
On some, the Xbox 360 blows the PS3 out of the water. I've noticed that most of the time the PS3 seems to use lower resolution bitmaps. Just look at Gran Turismo 5.

If you'd like to post evidence to the contrary, you're welcome to.

[Tyrannis]

For the most part, they're nearly indistinguishable, on some games the PS3 does better and on some the Xbox 360 does better.
On some, the Xbox 360 blows the PS3 out of the water. I've noticed that most of the time the PS3 seems to use lower resolution bitmaps. Just look at Gran Turismo 5.

If you'd like to post evidence to the contrary, you're welcome to.

god, you are so wrong. if your talking about multi-platform games, then yes the 360's graphics are better in that department and ive allready stated why. look at red dead redemption for example, on 360 it could go to 1080p, but on ps3 it was only for 720p. the reason for this is because of what i stated before, the 360 cannot support the type of graphics ps3 can, so pretty much 360's 1080p graphics would look like 720p on ps3, but if you were to take EXCLUSIVES, and compare them 1v1, the ps3 would come out ontop. like say, halo3 vs resistance 2. or gears vs killzone 3. or forza vs gran turismo 5. or better yet, all the 360 exclusives vs uncharted2. uncharted 2 truly symbolizes the ps3's potential in graphics. and we're still getting BETTER graphics. like i said the only thing the 360 has over ps3 is multi-platform gaming. other than that the ps3 is the better machine hands down.

[Tyrannis]

Dude xbox DOES have better graphics considering I have both, I only got a ps3 to watch movies off Netflix and because it's jailbroken so I can do challenge and derank lobbies in CoD

glad you mentioned call of duty.

remember way back when modern warfare came out? infinity ward released a statement which outraged the failbox fanboys and made me laugh. they flat out said the ps3 had more potential,better graphics, more coding space, and was more reliable than the xbox360. you can find the article on gamestop if you dont believe me.

[DREDIOCK]

glad you mentioned call of duty.

remember way back when modern warfare came out? infinity ward released a statement which outraged the failbox fanboys and made me laugh. they flat out said the ps3 had more potential,better graphics, more coding space, and was more reliable than the xbox360. you can find the article on gamestop if you dont believe me.

Why is it so important to you for one gaming system to be better then the other?. You collecting a paycheck from Sony?

[mcboi]

Ahhh after all the defending of the PS3 i came across tyrannis's picture on the net

[Tyrannis]

Why is it so important to you for one gaming system to be better then the other?. You collecting a paycheck from Sony?

i have a passionint hate for the failbox after i was foolish enough to buy 2 of them, with which both became a total waste of money do to being a crappy machine. (one got red ring 2 months after playing, the other i bought to replace the first, but it died from "overheating" a weak after i got it!)

[Tupac]

i have a passionint hate for the failbox after i was foolish enough to buy 2 of them, with which both became a total waste of money do to being a crappy machine. (one got red ring 2 months after playing, the other i bought to replace the first, but it died from "overheating" a weak after i got it!)

I've had mine for 2 years, and have never had a problem

[fbWldcat]

I have a passionate hate for the failbox after I was foolish enough to buy 2 of them, both of them proved to be crappy machines. (One got the red ring 2 months after playing, the other I bought to replace the first, but it died from "overheating" a week after I got it!)

Fixed. People might listen to your arguments more if you improved your spelling. That is true for a forum or a resume' for your job. Just a heads up... (Grammar Nazi here).

Anyway, both problems are fixable. The RROD is fixable by overheating the Xbox. You simply wrap a ton of towels over it and make it run. You can also take the machine apart and add new heat sinks, which is what I believe I heard causes the RROD. Overheating... Just let it cool off?

There shouldn't be any damage to either machine and they should still run fine.