The Xbox 360 came out in November of 2005, almost 10 years
ago. When it first came out it had problems, it was slow, noisy, and had the
red ring of death. Many of the original Xbox 360's didn’t make it past a year,
but the newer models, 2009 and up addressed these problems and fixed them all.
The Xbox 360 E was smaller, quick, silent, and no longer had the red ring of
death. There hasn’t been a day were I regarded buying my Xbox 360, I use it for
everything, from watching movies to checking Facebook. To this day I still use
on my 360 to play games with friends. The newest Xbox 360 has many different
features: video games, backwards compatibility, free video games, online
service, online community, a lot of apps, digital entertainment.
Video games are one of the biggest
things that the Xbox 360 is known for; currently it has over 1000 games. This
allows for many different options when choosing what game to play. You can have
days, if not weeks of fun trying to play all of these games. The full list of
Xbox 36o game can be found here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_360_games
This does not even include the list of games that are backward compatible. One
of the benefits from backward compatible is that you will be able to play the
classic games that were on the Xbox. You will be able to replay those games
from your childhood, and enjoy them on a better TV. With all these video games
it can be a bit expensive, but thankfully Microsoft gives free video game.
Every 2 weeks Microsoft gives away a free game to all of its Xbox live
members. The value of this feature is
great; you can save over 100 dollars a month. In one year you can have 24
special games and it wouldn’t have cost you a dime. A retail copy of these games
can cost up to $60 each, in one year you would be saving $1440 dollars! This is
just a minimum, it doesn’t include the game you have if your older console. You
can take a look at all the free games they have gave way over the last few
years here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_with_Gold_games
Another feature of the Xbox 360 is
the online service. The online services called Xbox live and it cost only $60
dollars a year. From Xbox live you
receive the ability to go online and play with members of the community, chat
with friends and family, able to use online access such as Facebook and Twitch.
You also receive access online gameplay, that is unmatched by any other
console. For example on the PlayStation network, you can go online and play
with friends, but the problem is the servers are unreliable. A couple years ago the Sony network got
hacked and all users we’re not able to play online games. And this is happened more than one time, the
PlayStation network is almost down for three months, while Xbox live was open
running perfectly. There is the most recent event of the PlayStation network
being down, http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/05/15/psn-is-down-and-lizard-squad-claims-credit/
and there is full list of all the outages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
That is one of the biggest benefits for the Xbox 360, the network doesn’t go
down, while the competitors network is unreliable. The Xbox 360 has a great
online community; you can make friends with people around the world. Games and online community is
still active even after the new console. For example, I hoped onto Halo 3, and
was still able to find online games to play with people. Halo 3 was a launch
title, and people are still playing it today. This is true with many of the
first person shooters, like call of duty, they games have a strong online
presence. You can keep in touch with your friends over the chat or you can even
video call them. The Xbox community spreads far and wide; you can meet new
people and make friends. It’s easy to make friends since you already have some
things in common like playing video games. Here is a website that was created
by a group of friends that all meet over Xbox live. http://achievementhunter.com/home.php. I would also check out http://roosterteeth.com/home.php they created some of the first Machinima using the game Halo.
One other feature on the Xbox 360 is
the app market; most of these apps are free. The benefit of the app market is
that you can turn your Xbox 360 into an entertainment center. This app store is
amazing; there are so many benefits with this. One of the apps you can download
is Netflix; you can watch all of your movie and TV shows on there. You can also
download YouTube, so you can watch your favorite video on a TV rather than a
computer. There are apps that allow you to watch live TV and even HBO. VEVO is
also available through the App Store, so you can listen to music while playing
video games. With the app store you can also download games online, saving you
some money and time. You can check out the whole list of apps here. http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/features-and-apps
Another
benefit of an Xbox 360 is because they are cheap now, since the new generation
has been released the old game systems have been dropping in price. I just check on GameStop.com and found an Xbox
360 and 10 games for less than $120. That brings me on to my next point, old
360 games as dirty cheap now. Online you can pick up about 20+ classic games
for less than it costs to pick up one new game for the Xbox One. You can play
all the classics for a fraction of the price. You can save so much money with
this console!
I guarantee that you can be saving $1,000 of
dollars a year buying an Xbox 360. The Xbox
360 can also bring you countless hours of fun, from its wide selection of video
games. You will be able to make new friends and Keep up with the old ones using
the online network. It is guarantee that the Xbox network we’ll stay up during
any major events. Using the app store, it a promise you will be able to find
something that entertains you. All of these benefits can be your with a
purchase of an Xbox 360.
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