Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite

XBOX 360 Still the best on the market! My view

I never purchase initial released consoles mainly as they are always rushed out on to the market for users to test, break and wait for repairs. Once again my patients paid off as the 360 had many teething problems the worst of all was the 3 rings of death. Thankfully Microsoft agreed to provide a 3 year repair for the 3 rings of death, quite appropriate really. I still agree to buy a 3 year warranty with new consoles because of the amount of use they get and with younger users they do get knocked around a little.

When the XBOX 360 elite came out it had had most if not all the initial problems resolved, I can say this now happily as my XBOX is now 20 Months old and I have had no problems with it at all. The power supply is still a heavy brick! So it is not a portable console.

The elite comes with HD as standard and a massive 120Gb Hard Drive which I still have not managed to fill, it is black with silver driver tray personally I think the black is better looking as I have seen many of the original coloured XBOX 360's with serious discolouration issues, bleached by heat and sun!

The only arena has seen a lot of mature players using the XBOX 360, mainly due to the fantastic graphics and almost realistic game play, so good night kids it's time for your dad to have a game!

-------------------------- Advantages: ------------------------------
Long list of fantastic titles for both online and local play games,

Better than playing PC based games, because you do not need to upgrade your PC every 12 months to play the latest games, which over the years becomes very costly.

------------------------- Disadvantages: ---------------------------
Being in the UK has many drawbacks when it comes to playing online games, this is because most if not all the gaming servers are located in the US and the delay between communications from here to the US gives all US players a serious advantage when playing fast action online games. The effects of which can be seen when you put a full mag into an American player, they shoot you with a few bullets at the same time, but you die (COD)!

Price of each game, MS paid Millions of pounds designing a system that could not use pirated software, only to charge those that don't buy copies the extra amount of money. ASDA do have some cracking deals with new releases although it means a late night to bag one.

No helicopter simulation games!

The options for adding your own music onto the hard drive is very limited.

Ideas for the future, would be to add an additional HD output for playing multiplayer games on separate screens as dual player mode is still frustrating seeing the other player on half the screen reduces what you can see on your half!