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yeah VGA was shit on my PJ

im thinking of selling it and getting a 50" Plasma or LCD, not because the PJ is bad its awesome i just want a change because i havnt had a big tele for ageeeeeeees
 
Do all of you had problems with your 360 (the 3 lights) ? Because reading most of the posts here I'm starting to worry for my almost 2 years old 360... I don't have any problem except a noisy engine sound when I play GOW.
 
Do all of you had problems with your 360 (the 3 lights) ? Because reading most of the posts here I'm starting to worry for my almost 2 years old 360... I don't have any problem except a noisy engine sound when I play GOW.

Curse of the internet my friend.....

Mine is 18 months old, as has so far, touch wood,.....er, no, actually I'm not going to say it......
 
My dad bought a Premium off eBay the other day for £140, lucky git. Unbelievable, the only time I've ever seen anyone I know in the right place and the right time to get an absolute bargain.

He's only bought it for the football games as well, he is a mental.
 
I got a brand new premium for my brother for £16 lol, aint joking either, I had an old core system in the house and I told Game that it was my current system that was broke so they traded it in at full price, and my mate works there so I get 10% discount too, not bad hey
 
Good evening madam, do you take Ugandan dollars?

If so, please reply with your bank account details and sort code.

Goodbye,
Mr. Akakakakakakgwengo

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its good for putting your drinks on when your playing on the 360, keeps them hot hor hours, im thinking of trying some Bacon on mine to see if it will fry it
 
Someone should send one of those pics to Sony and say "thank you, your PS3 makes the best sausages I have ever tasted in my life, I love you guys". That'd confuse 'em.
 
it will be nice when its winter, all nice and warm, watching christmas tv with the ps3 blazing in the fire place
 
Microsoft: IPTV not a part of Xbox Live Fall Update

Turns out those images of an Xbox 360 with IPTV were legit. In a statement issued by Microsoft, the Redmond-based company acknowledged that the IPTV features "were inadvertently exposed while the customer's console was being serviced and is unrelated to the Fall Update."

The IPTV features, according to the statement, are part of the Microsoft Mediaroom services and will be made available to service providers by the end of this year, adding that it will be up to them to decide when the service is deployed.
 
Damnit, too much to buy in November! I'm already tempted to buy Orange Box, but in November alone there's COD4, Assasins Creed, Mass Effect, Kane & Lynch, Lego Star Wars:Complete Saga and Guitar Hero III.

As well as wanting games like Forza 2 and Eternal Sonata.
 
Orange Box, no fucking hesitation.

Halo 3 was good for a week, before it A) got boring and B) became infested with cheats. Orange Box is five great games (Portal is short and Team Fortress 2 is repetitive but for five games you can't go wrong).
 
Thought is would quote this in here as nobody seems to want to discuss it in the sony thread.

kami said:
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend who works for the Financial Times.

Basically he was saying that PS3 owners should be worried about the lack of progress it has made since launching last year. Although it is early in it's life cycle he said that Sony Executives were growing increasingly concerned. The big problem is that the gaming division is the most heavily resourced part of Sony and it is not giving any sort of return compared to other divisions such as HDTV's, Portable Music and Mobile Phones. He said that if things continued in the same trend after the recent price cuts then 6-8 months down the line he could see the resourcing for the Gaming Division being cut.

He also said that he expects Microsoft to announce 3rd generation Xbox in Summer 2008, it will launch in Summer 2009. He said the 360 had achieved it's aim of being first to market, establishing Microsoft as a serious player and eroding Sony market share.

My response:

*have a guess* said:
Not just abandon it like SEGA did with the Saturn!

Where does he say they are gonna abandon it?! Dont go into drama queen mode. It will be 4/5 years since its release, 5 years being the normal cycle for consoles and they are likely seeing that the dvd is showing its limits, while at the same time they are recognising that they will need something new to get anywhere in japan, while at the same time put another generation between them and nintendo. Tbh i find it very logical, especially when you look at sony's position and how their "development" is going.

The Wii is seen by most people as the "fun" console for the latest generation. Which it is, however its really an old gen console with movement tacked on. After all its really just a gamecube. Now atm the graphics that it lacks are being compensated by its "new" gaming style and giving it the possiblity to still be considered part of the new generation of 360/ps3/wii. So releasing a new generation(x720) in a couple of years makes sense to put some distance between itself and the WII further highlighting the technical difference. So with this in mind it makes sense as nintendo will then be resigned to having a old gen fun console that does nothing else. It barely has any serious games as it is. It will no longer be part of the latest generation.

Now on to the ps3. Everybody knows the ps3 is stuck in limbo atm, it doesnt have enough games to sell itself, the multiformat games are just as good, if not better on the 360 and even more importantly, the ps2 is still the main console when it comes to sales of both hardware and software. This xmas and next year could possibly be the period where the ps3 takes off and that the transition period from ps2 to ps3 will diminish with the focus being put on ps3. They are already trying to tell the public this with the 40gb no BC console. So this coming period, especially xmas 08 will probably be the period the ps3 enters its best moment and could possibly start to show its extra power over the 360 with exclusive games.

What better time then to announce a new generation console?! That will likely give people who are looking at a nextgen console food for thought knowing that a nextnextgen console is on its way while also giving people doubts whether to buy the ps3. Sony's whole argument/selling point of being the bestest console is gone and a lot of us will know they will need to do something, ps4?, to stay with it. Meaning the ps3 could potentially become the original xbox. A console thats more powerfull but suffers from a lack of games using its power [read: 360 games now being ported to ps3] meaning they end up inbetween both sets of customers to aim for, the hardcore who want the best/latest console and the large scale consumers who can buy the cheaper 360 with its relatively "large" library of games to instead of the ps3 with its poor ports and little exclusive content. Its also seen, from what ive read, as the easier console to program for meaning its cheaper to continue making games for it and saving developers money while also giving them a reason to not make a relative expensive ps3 port. Giving the 360 even more possibility to have the ps2 effect of good games for a cheap price for a large market. The ps3, if it what kami heard is true, becomes a "nothing" console and means the potential for a ps4 is even harder to financially argue. Then giving the 720 an even better chance, and longer period of sole compitition, of becoming the nr one nextnextgen console.

Looking at it from that perspective I find it very possible.

All thats been said in the ps3 is that the 40gb is outselling the 360 atm. So as 360 owners, what do you think?
 
Halo 3 was good for a week, before it A) got boring and B) became infested with cheats.

Jack what are you talking about? I looked at your profile on bungie.net and you haven't played one Multiplayer game (unless you are using a different gamertag). I have played almost 100 games online and I have not come across one single person cheating. Sure there have been a couple of lag issues but they are few and far between.

What cheating have you witnessed?
 
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Played over around 100 games myself but most are with friends. Its great fun playing 2v2... and I havent come across cheaters, just knobs but thats not common as most people on there are good gamers.
 
Jack what are you talking about? I looked at your profile on bungie.net and you haven't played one Multiplayer game (unless you are using a different gamertag). I have played almost 100 games online and I have not come across one single person cheating. Sure there have been a couple of lag issues but they are few and far between.

What cheating have you witnessed?
I've been playing it at a friend's, my personal copy arrived scratched to death (I said on the forum when I got it, I ordered the limited edition, which shipped in a right state). I've sent the discs off to Microsoft but it says on the returns form "please wait six weeks for delivery", so it's due back in the later half of this month... :| But anyway, I don't have my Live account etc. on a memory card, so I've been using his profile.

The cheating I've been witnessing - it might not be classed as cheating, to be honest, because I don't know how they're doing it, but I've read/heard several people say they are and assumed that they were. People seem so good at the game that you feel like they must be doing something you're not. I'm not talking about being really good, I'm talking about being totally untouchable, and every time you spawn you're dead within seconds. If they're not cheating then seriously, they're either cyborgs or they sleep with a pad in their hand. You can't even get close to them. Where's the fun in that?

I've always found shooters full of these guys, which is why I rarely play them online. In the Battlefield series I shoot someone ten times and they just look at me, they take one shot and I'm dead. I've even shot people in the head three times and they've lived to tell the tale, it drives me NUTS.

There's only one FPS I can think of that I've felt has a nice balance to it, and none of this "I'll shoot you a million times, you shoot me once and I'll die" bollocks, and that was the Call Of Duty 4 beta. I can't wait to get hold of that next week.
 
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has anyone had a premium/core and changed over to the elite, what is the picture like with the hdmi cable on the 360?

also my brother has just bought a 360 halo premium edition with hdmi capable, however he said he would swap consoles with me because i have the premium with no hdmi output because he has no hd tv

what i want to know is this, sorry silly questions but need to know

1) do i have to let him have my hard drive, or can i just disconnect and re-connect on to my brothers 360

2) can we swap facia's, i.e he has the halo edition which is dark green and mine is white

any help would be appreciated chaps
 
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