Product reviews by 'Allegro1'

Kyo28 doesn't have an Arcade since the Arcade doesn't come with a HDD. I don't know what languange D00mer is speaking.


The Xbox 360 is plagued with hardware problems which comes in the form of a time bomb depending on how it is used/abused. M$ will not admit that they blew it with the implementation of a good concept and didn't even need to go to a 360 when the XB1 was perfectly adequate for most people. What you are getting over the XB1 is eye candy, 2x priced games and a payment plan of about $66/year for hardware. This calculates $200 for an Arcade box which will die in 3 years requiring a replacement. If it dies in less than 3 years, you get a refurb'ed replacement from M$. It may end up turning into a revolving door from your home to M$, but you don't have to buy another one. M$ assumed that an expensive home entertainment system would be treated like a stereo receiver and not like a kid's toy. They were wrong. Moving the box around with the disk spinning in the drive will gouge the game. Putting it on the carpet or in a cramped shelf will kill the airflow and cause the "Ring of Death". Even though the instructions say not to do this, how many people read the instructions or really follow all the precautions?

The original was overpriced for what you get, but the newly priced Arcade at $199 US is a great deal. If you want a true media center, get an Xbox1 with a 500GB HD and XBMC installed. That way, you can use the 512MB flash memory on the XB360 and not need a HDD until the prices for those drop also ($25 on clearance for the 20GB last month if you could find one).

Conclusion: the hardware is a good value(4) which would be excellent(5) if it lasted and the games are terribly overpriced as are the games for the PS3. The PS2 games are a very good value if gameplay is more important than eye candy. The Wii doesn't count because it's for little kids and parties.

Hope that helps and doesn't muddy up the waters.