If there's only 3 games i want to play with? I'll probably ignore live too.

Um, why only 3 games? when you can have tons of great games,
Well Live mostly for social use i guess..
You already own a PC/Laptop so Live isnt that much good..
Well, getting an arcade, that 1 i cant confirm, all i know is, if you care less about Live, playing modded xbox is worth it..

Just to be on the safe side. I'm actually tight with my budget and Planning to concentrate on buying PS3 version games if they are multiplatform. The only 3 games that's not multiplatform atm were Infinite undiscovery, Tales of Vesperia and the upcoming SO4. So yeah...

i bought 360 just to play vesperia .. now seldom use the 360, only for downloading xtra content, trailer etc. sometimes use to play movie. currently waiting for ffxiii and so4.

back to the main topic, right now maybe it is suffice to buy arcade, but who knows in the future u might regret it because 360 HDD is way too expensive. why not opted for 60gb premium version? it is still cheaper compared to ps3 (if not mistaken)

This post has been edited by tidus2k: Dec 23 2008, 01:09 AM

Hurm, well if your budget is good enuf, just get a ps3..
buy COD games.. it will last more than a month online stuff.. after that, you can afford another games.. wohoo.

hmm.. well if they are already multiplatform then why waste money to buy ps3?

i'm sure you can get as much fun on multiplatform games on 360 too.

yeah. and x360 games are cheaper than ps3.

Well, you know. I'm quite paranoid about RROD. Besides if most of your games are 360 version, wouldn't it be troublesome if your console break. At least if my 360 died, i still have a bunch of games i can play with PS3.

This post has been edited by Sairenji: Dec 23 2008, 01:46 PM

Better get PS3 then, no RROD but got YLOD (Yellow Light of Death)

Yellow > Red

I'm getting both btw. The 3 games i mentioned above were the only reason tha force me to buy 360. That's why i asked if it is just enough by getting arcade.

if your interest at the moment is only 3 games, why not try swapping your ps3 with an xbox owner for 1or2 months come March/April?

who knows, u may end up liking it very much and buy 1 permanent unit anyway, Arcade is sufficient, u can always look around to buy 2nd hand 20GB HDD for the cheap.

Well, live is kinda irrelevant whether you use arcade/premium/elite.

If i were to start fresh right now, i would buy an arcade. The arcade has a higher spec than my premium (2 Years old dy) anyway with the HDMI port. But take note, you need a HDMI CABLE or a COMPOSITE cable if you have LCD TV coz standard is only RCA cable. HDMI cable only cost about 20 bucks at carrefour so no biggie.

You can always pick up a 20gb hdd in the LYN thread later on if you decide to keep the xbox. The 256mb memory card should suffice most games unless you're playing forza motorsports 2

May i know what 3 games that you want that ps3 dont have?

Viva Pinata, Viva Pinata: Party Animals and Rayman Raving rabbids?

You should try also A Kingdom for Keflings availble only in XBOX

Viva Pinata is good game, worth it!!

Eh...

SCROLL UP, SCROLL UP.

This post has been edited by Sairenji: Dec 23 2008, 05:27 PM

id say better get an arcade if u already have a hard drive,if ur still new to xbox better get the 60gb as new games benefit alot when installed as the load times and frame rates improves.

Just to know wut difference between arcade,premium,asian package..so blur add another flacon,jasper...BLUR

you can read the buyer's guide in this section. that should explain more than half of your question. falcon and jasper is the major revision of xbox360, with jasper being the latest one.

Sairenji, if you're really tight on budget, just choose the arcade 360. since tales of vesperia and infinite undiscovery is not going to benefit from HDD (even if u install the games, loading time improve a little bit). but I'm not sure about the upcoming SO4. hope that helps.

This post has been edited by tidus2k: Dec 24 2008, 01:13 AM

Thanx for the info everyone.



This post has been edited by Sairenji: Dec 26 2008, 10:49 AM

um i want to add another question to it. the 256mb memory card for Arcade, could i upgrade it with any other memory card in the market?

New Jasper Arcade come with 256MB onboard memory. But yeah you can upgrade with 360 memory card or HDD,

Say, how much is the 20GB HDD anyway?

This post has been edited by Sairenji: Dec 27 2008, 09:57 AM

i think it's over rm100

believe me, it is not worth it to buy a separate HDD

i just bought my new arcade here in NZ. unfortunately it's not jasper. ask the retailer about the new jasper and the counter guy gave me this free weird look and insisted latest is elite

selling consoles without having knowledge about it is a bliss
seriously, i'm surprised that NZ still haven't got Jasper.

This post has been edited by tidus2k: Dec 27 2008, 07:07 PM

Since you wanna 3 games only, you might want to consider buy 20gb HDD.
You have no idea how noisy the DVD drive can be when playing games.

hi bro, how to make the game run from HDD instead of DVD when playing? can enlighten me? thanks

u still need to use the dvd drive...but less if u buy a hdd...so u can install games in it thus the games load faster and less work for ur dvd drive...

Install NXE to your xbox (connect to LIVE normally, and you'll be forced to update). In the menu before starting game, press Y for option and select install to hard drive. Later on you just need to put the DVD on the drive start the game normally. It'll automatically load from HDD. No more noise from the DVD drive. Cheers
ps: if you take out disc while playing, you'll be force to quit the game. even though it loads from HDD

This post has been edited by tidus2k: Dec 29 2008, 01:39 AM

bro wilsonjay and tidus2k, thanks alot for the indo. successfully tied that just now.

This post has been edited by shakiraa: Dec 29 2008, 09:30 PM