Microsoft discontinues glossy Xbox 360, goes matte

[Igneus the Bold]

And just one more thing about the Xbox 360. Arcade! I'm having a lot of fun playing these old Monkey Island and TMNT: Turtles In Time type games, remade with HD graphics. As sad as it is, I've probably spent more hours playing Peggle than I've played Transformers: War for Cybertron!

About that Arcade, most emulators available to the computer gamer cover everything, except of course Shining Force, and Mutant League Football. I cannot find them anywhere! Not that any of the "modern" consoles provide them either; They do not.

 

[Guest]

Genuine question here...Does it still sound like a vaccum cleaner because the one that sits under my tv collecting dust on the outside would do a self clean if i ever switched it on.
Oh and it was supposed to be one of the quiet, later versions but it`s crazy loud and just annoyed the hell out of me when that disc spun up.
must admit though, i`m a pc gamer 99.9% of the time so cant tollerate chit that sounds like it`s made in Hong Kong!

 

[Guest]

If the developers didn't try to make the aging hardware act all modern there wouldn't be a problem. I very much would prefer if they didn't focus so much on graphics but instead on level design and gameplay, pity that shiny screenshots seem more important.

There are a few pearls among all those corridor crawlers/shooters though so the situation isn't completely hopeless.

 

[Burty117]

Guest said:
Genuine question here...Does it still sound like a vaccum cleaner because the one that sits under my tv collecting dust on the outside would do a self clean if i ever switched it on.
Oh and it was supposed to be one of the quiet, later versions but it`s crazy loud and just annoyed the hell out of me when that disc spun up.
must admit though, i`m a pc gamer 99.9% of the time so cant tollerate chit that sounds like it`s made in Hong Kong!

I've got one of these and they are much quieter, install the game onto the hard drive and it is near silent.

 

[Guest]

If u have the newer version of the xbox it is only loud when u have a disc in it but if the game is installed its more silent.Also im worried about the tempature of my xbox slim because somtimes its around 90 degrees.

 

[captaincranky]

Oh and it was supposed to be one of the quiet, later versions but it`s crazy loud and just annoyed the hell out of me when that disc spun up.
must admit though, i`m a pc gamer 99.9% of the time so cant tollerate chit that sounds like it`s made in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong is more of a tourist and financial center, probably more so than manufactured goods. You have to broaden your contempt to the rest of the Pacific Rim and China proper.

Incidentally, I think Hong Kong's chief export is martial arts "wire" movies.

Feel free to check these facts, I certainly didn't bother for the sake of this reply.

 

[Guest]

okay i bought thee 360 on day one and now like eight years or so later ive bought two more for my family but after my first on broke about eighteen times and counting i realised that it wasnt a bad system at all especially when microsoft made it way too easy to open it up and replace all the components to my liking and now i run just about any computer game i want on my xbox and as long as i download the xbox online format and pc graphics and such its just amazing. the only problem iv encountered is that the damned bastards at microsoft took my account and saw what i was doing and now i cant get achievements and i cant change my zone and all it says is cheater but oh well my shits amaazing

 

[thelegened]

How did this go from a topic about a new console shell to "Hey lets all hate microsoft and their **** box"? almost no one cares about PC games, who wants to sit in front of a monitor for hours on end playing with a mouse and keyboard? nobody! so get over it PC nerds because as long as there is console available, 90% of gamers will buy it.