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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eagl on November 26, 2011, 01:42:30 PM
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One of the huge discounts offered this weekend was $100 off of xbox + kinect bundles. $199 for the $299 4GB system, $299 for the $399 250GB system. The stores had only a handful of these, right next to a huge stack of identical full-price ones, so it was obviously a black friday marketing trick. Well...
Microsoft has the same discount pricing online. Stupid retailers, thanks microsoft! Some people waited in line nearly a day to save $100 on these consoles, yet MS is still selling them for $100 off on Saturday, with no end date listed for the discount pricing.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.BlackFriday
So... If you're looking at an xbox console to buy, check out microsoft's site before you waste any time standing around in line. It's around 33% off for the 4GB console, a fairly decent discount if you're going to buy one of these anyhow. That'll pay for 2 first-tier or 3-4 second-tier kinect games. I doubt we'll see any deeper discount for these things anytime this or next year.
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I agree with eagl :salute :cheers: on this one i think the games are overpriced but the system for 200 hundred bucks is a good deal.
Nowadays i just wait a couple weeks and buy the game used for half the price.
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The one that looks like a microwave oven.
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I had 2 PS3 failures and then switched to Xbox. I try to keep my mouth shut on subjects I know nothing about. Maybe you should do the same.
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I have a question. What is the purpose of having the 250GB version? What is the purpose of the extra hard drive space?
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I have a question. What is the purpose of having the 250GB version? What is the purpose of the extra hard drive space?
Save games and installing games to your harddrive. Its easier on the system and on some games (like battlefield 3) the graphics are substantially better when you install it to your HD
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I bought my first xbox for £10 with rrod, fixed it and it ran fine, spent some more modding it and its been completely spot on. Yeah the failure rate aint great but the current generation of kids/adults have no clue on how to even try to fix one. I have fixed 12 for people who's warranty ran out and modded a couple for people I know. I didnt even charge for any of it, just did it because I wanted to see if I could.
Nobody I know even tries to fix things anymore, its all rather sad
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I said you were spewing crap. I'm not offended by what you say, just incredibly frustrated that you don't have the maturity to stay out of threads that you have no business in. You hijacked this thread on the very first post.
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It seems common sense cannot prevail over the Internet, so this will be my last post in this thread otherwise I fear I may give myself an ulcer. eagl if you are thinking about purchasing one I would definitely get the 250, because I think you will be kicking yourself later if you don't. I have an old 120gb elite that I have about 30gbs left on. Space goes FAST.
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The one that looks like a microwave oven.
http://gizmodo.com/216695/playstation-3-converted-into-george-foreman-grill
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKiWg9ohv7WJrmzPmcyItRJ-TglvSH1ZAMu-9KA18oUTqRGZ3bXw)
When I got my PS3 the 1st thing I said was "I wonder if it can make a grilled cheese?"
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A woman in southern Cali pepper sprayed a crowd inside walmart as the employes were un-boxing a box full of xbox's, she stated she wanted an early lead. Saw that in the news yesterday
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A woman in southern Cali pepper sprayed a crowd inside walmart as the employes were un-boxing a box full of xbox's, she stated she wanted an early lead. Saw that in the news yesterday
:rofl saw that too. something about someone getting shot aswell.
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Anyways, to get this back on topic Eagl, i think that MS could give a bit more of a discount on the 250GB system...maybe 20 dollars less? its just out of my reach :lol
The 250GB was also $100 off, $299 vs. $399. For those who do online gaming, they also had a better bundle with a bunch of points and 3 months of xbox live. I don't think we'll be using the console that much so that bundle wasn't very attractive to me. But I almost went for the basic $299 250GB kinect bundle. I read that regular external USB drives work and I have a couple of those lying around, so maybe I don't need the extra internal storage anyhow.
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It seems common sense cannot prevail over the Internet, so this will be my last post in this thread otherwise I fear I may give myself an ulcer. eagl if you are thinking about purchasing one I would definitely get the 250, because I think you will be kicking yourself later if you don't. I have an old 120gb elite that I have about 30gbs left on. Space goes FAST.
Can't I plug in a USB stick or USB hard drive? I have a couple of old USB drives I could plug in and forget about.
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A woman in southern Cali pepper sprayed a crowd inside walmart as the employes were un-boxing a box full of xbox's, she stated she wanted an early lead. Saw that in the news yesterday
Pretty funny that she'll go to jail for a deal she could have gotten online :lol
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The 250GB was also $100 off, $299 vs. $399. For those who do online gaming, they also had a better bundle with a bunch of points and 3 months of xbox live. I don't think we'll be using the console that much so that bundle wasn't very attractive to me. But I almost went for the basic $299 250GB kinect bundle. I read that regular external USB drives work and I have a couple of those lying around, so maybe I don't need the extra internal storage anyhow.
YOU SKIPPED OUT ON THE BUNDLE?!?!?! :bhead
you just missed some great stuff there, 3 months of xbox live is 20 bucks, and the points (probably 5600-ish) is worth about 50. that was a great deal. also, with the USB drives, all of those work, i have a few i use myself for music and such.
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YOU SKIPPED OUT ON THE BUNDLE?!?!?! :bhead
you just missed some great stuff there, 3 months of xbox live is 20 bucks, and the points (probably 5600-ish) is worth about 50. that was a great deal. also, with the USB drives, all of those work, i have a few i use myself for music and such.
Yea, it looked like a great deal... for someone who wanted all that stuff. I mostly want it so my wife and kids can do the kinect dance games. My wife had a lot of fun playing those games at parties and my little kids LOVE music/dancing, so that's what it's going to be used for initially. If I need storage I'll plug in an external drive (I have several obsolete IDE 200-300GB drives just lying around) and if I had enough time to do online gaming, I'd probably spend that time doing something other than console gaming anyhow.
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Yea, it looked like a great deal... for someone who wanted all that stuff. I
you know you could have bought at least 3 or 4 different kinect games with the 5600 microsoft points off the xbox live marketplace, and thats a pretty good deal.
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you know you could have bought at least 3 or 4 different kinect games with the 5600 microsoft points off the xbox live marketplace, and thats a pretty good deal.
I thought it was 1600 points... The more layers of complexity they add to the system, the less likely I'll participate. Points? Online account? Need a credit card info or have to sign up for an account that I need to cancel when the free period runs out? Forget it. Gimme a simple discount and I'll pay cash.
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:rofl saw that too. something about someone getting shot aswell.
Nah, I just heard she turned herself in though, she actually was able to get the purchase and make it out of the store before the police arrived, she finally turned herself in today
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Nah, I just heard she turned herself in though, she actually was able to get the purchase and make it out of the store before the police arrived, she finally turned herself in today
Oh i know, i was just saying yahoo had that story, and someone was shot in the parkinglot of a black friday even too
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Oh i know, i was just saying yahoo had that story, and someone was shot in the parkinglot of a black friday even too
I heard people were trampled as well, people are to insane
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Its gotten to the point of extreme greed. You know how overpriced merchandise is when they can put that big of a cut on it and still make money.
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Its gotten to the point of extreme greed. You know how overpriced merchandise is when they can put that big of a cut on it and still make money.
They don't make money on those big tag items, the money comes from the regular priced items people buy while they are in the store for the "bargains".
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Funny thing... The geniuses at Radioshack forgot to put the words "limited quantities" in their black friday ad... Therefore they are required by law to offer rain checks to anyone who asks for them in the state of Michigan.
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Its gotten to the point of extreme greed. You know how overpriced merchandise is when they can put that big of a cut on it and still make money.
Door buster deals, like the Xbox deal, are sold at a loss. They are designed to get you in the door so they can sell you accessories, batteries, service plans, etc...
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Door buster deals, like the Xbox deal, are sold at a loss. They are designed to get you in the door so they can sell you accessories, batteries, service plans, etc...
At the BX on base, they had a huge pile of regular price xbox systems, and a lady stationed there to tell people that they were out of the sale price ones but still had "a few" of these other ones right here, so...
So I walked out and completely by accident stumbled across an article that mentioned microsoft's online store had xbox discounts. I checked the microsoft site thinking no way they'd have the same discount price, but sure enough they had ALL of the black friday discount prices still available as late as mid-day Saturday, plus some other ones I didn't see in any store advertisements.
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Besides Killzone and God of War what good titles are there? (Both of those titles are much better than Xbox exclusive titles, I will cede that.
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Besides Killzone and God of War what good titles are there? (Both of those titles are much better than Xbox exclusive titles, I will cede that.
Little big planet?
I will say that both of those are very good games as is LBP.
Halo is meh, you know it was revolutionary for its time but it just kinda faded away. And after Halo 2 it just didnt wow me,
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Me neither, and gears is an Xbox exclusive title too, right? I enjoy it, but it's not like Killzone. That game rocks.
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Yeah Gears had its own little niche and it filled it well but yeah I still say Killzone was just extraordinary.
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Lol @ all the see rule # so and so.
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Lol @ all the see rule # so and so.
Hmm...don't see why the posts were edited for #2.
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#2 seems to be one of the rare ones, why can't we get a good ol' fashioned #14?
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Hmm...don't see why the posts were edited for #2.
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I too was wondering...
I feel like the kid sent to the corner wearing a dunce cap... :uhoh :cry
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So I had one friend wait in line since late in the afternoon of Thursday to get one of the PS3 on their black friday retail sale. At 4am on Sunday he realised maybe he had made the wrong console purchase, and us XBoxers were onto something when he finished beating MW3 and then MW2 and wanted to continue his adventure back through time to where the story/idea/meat-n-potatoes/it-all started from and expereince the storyline for himself...
/Hi-jack off, carry on. :devil
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#2 seems to be one of the rare ones, why can't we get a good ol' fashioned #14?
I would, and I know a real nice innocent one to use too, but I already got two recent strikes, and the election season has yet to begin.
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Hmm...don't see why the posts were edited for #2.
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I suppose talking about the Xbox on a thread about the Xbox is hijacking. I knew I should've talked about the Wii. :devil