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Microsoft Announces Official Xbox 360 Price Drop
Storm Rider:
Yes, Ninja Gaiden Black is backwards compatible. I bought it for 20 bucks because I didn't have an original X-Box. It's fucking HARD.
And I bought a 360 the day after Dead Rising came out, but that's also because I didn't have a PC capable of running Oblivion. Those two games lasted me for a good long time, until last year's holiday season when a whole bunch of 360 games started coming out. I don't regret it in the least at this point, especially with this year's holiday season looking even better.
And Live is 50 dollars a year, not 60. It sounds kind of like a lot, except that when you work it out it's 4 dollars a month, so whatever. My network is all kinds of fucked up at home, so I've actually owned a 360 for almost a year now without even using Live. I downloaded some Live Arcade games at my friend's house once, but as far as online play goes I haven't missed it a whole lot. Probably when I move out and finally bother with getting it all set up I'll wonder how I lived without it, but right now I'm not losing sleep over it.
Seriously though, the 360 is a great system. It seems like now is a great time to get one with the price drop and the hardware revisions fixing a lot of the problems (no HDMI, quieter/cooler processors). Of course, the 65 nm chipset being added in recently is still rumored, so if you are still holding out you might as well wait another couple of months to find out for sure. All I can say about the hardware issues is that I've had no trouble with mine whatsoever, and I live in a pretty hot part of California.
ackblom12:
I broke and went ahead and ordered Phantom Dust and Ninja Gaiden Black with ridiculously long shipping times. The only 2 games i had any interest in for the X-Box sadly enough.
I really can't help but think that playing Dead Rising (obsessively) will make me very antsy for info concerning the sequel.
0bsessions:
Wait...you live in New York and you bothered to have it shipped? How far can you be from a given video game store that you couldn't just go out and track it down? Ninja Gaiden Black is pretty readily available at most Gamestops and while I'm not a fan of the company itself, they've never fucked me so bad I'll shitcan the convenience of it.
Storm Rider:
Personally, I've never had a problem with my local Gamestop. I think the staff knows I know enough about games for it to not be worth their time hassling me for shit I don't need, and I don't buy used games unless they're impossible to find any other way. I believe the last used game I bought was Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, because that was a long time after it came out but before Konami announced they were going to release a greatest hits version.
ScrambledGregs:
My local EB Games is stocked with pretty great guys. Sometimes they do the whole "reserve something plz" shit, and they did talk me into an Edge Club membership (meh, I like having mags for bathroom material even if it's a crap mag), but otherwise they're cool. Plus they told me about getting in a shipment of DS Lites as I was in the store one day last summer when they were impossible to find.
Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with my DS enough to put off getting a new console. I just ordered Etrian Odyssey and Mario Kart off Amazon today, and I'll be picking up both Contra 4 and Front Mission when they come out this fall/winter.
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