Best place to buy an X Box

Lazers pew pew

I've been a PS1 and PS2 guy all my gaming years. I'm looking to invest in an XBox.
Now bare in mind, i dont want to play online and the only thing i need it for is for basic gaming, just plug anmd play, i have no need for any fancy gadgets, just want a simple good gaming experience.
My question is where would be the best place to buy one and what should i be looking out for.
Preferaably i would like to buy a used one first to see how I get on with it.
I have tried the adverts board but nothing takes my fancy

Cheers in advance

Riesen_Meal

Theres a new arcade model going on sale tomorrow, no harddrive, just for basic gaming, I suppose if you wanted the Hardrive after you could buy it, you get a wireless joypad, some olskool arcade games, think it cost bout 280.00 and im sure they do a deal with a game aswell....

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Fieldog wrote: »

Theres a new arcade model going on sale tomorrow, no harddrive, just for basic gaming, I suppose if you wanted the Hardrive after you could buy it, you get a wireless joypad, some olskool arcade games, think it cost bout 280.00 and im sure they do a deal with a game aswell....

sorry if this sounds a bit thick, but what does the hard drive do?

thebman

Don't you think the Wii would be better of Offline gaming?

A lot of the 360 games feature online as their selling point. Sure a lot of them have decent single players but none of them are as good as Bioshock which is a proper single player game.

I think you should go with a console that focuses more on that if that's what your going to be using it for.

Just an alternative, a cheaper alternative at that.

Hard Drive is for saves, demos and updates for the console.

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brim4brim wrote: »

Don't you think the Wii would be better of Offline gaming?

A lot of the 360 games feature online as their selling point. Sure a lot of them have decent single players but none of them are as good as Bioshock which is a proper single player game.

I think you should go with a console that focuses more on that if that's what your going to be using it for.

Just an alternative, a cheaper alternative at that.

Hard Drive is for saves, demos and updates for the console.

so you cant save a game without a hard drive?

kim_eire

I have an x-box (not 360) for sale if ya are interested. Got about 5 games with it.

thebman

Lazers pew pew wrote: »

so you cant save a game without a hard drive?

You can save to a memory stick either but you might fill it up. I think the hard drive is a good buy for it.

Memory stick is handy if you are going to a friends house or something I guess.

Its about 40 Euro I think for a memory stick or 100 Euro or so for the hard drive with about 64MB storage on memory stick versus 20GB or 20,000MB on the Hard Drive.

Demo's are usually about a gigabyte or so on 360 for full games so you should keep these things in mind. You can probably get cheaper prices than the above too at this stage.

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kim_eire wrote: »

I have an x-box (not 360) for sale if ya are interested. Got about 5 games with it.

aye, how much
is it in good working order
whats the difference between xbox and xbox 360

mcgovern

Lazers pew pew wrote: »

aye, how much
is it in good working order
whats the difference between xbox and xbox 360

Basically the same as the difference between a PS2 and a PS3

koneko

You won't want an Xbox, if you want to play any new games you want a 360, the original Xbox won't play Xbox 360 games.

zAbbo

i guess all advice is pointless if the OP won't do a quick google to differentiate the difference between an xbox & xbox360.

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zabbo wrote: »

i guess all advice is pointless if the OP won't do a quick google to differentiate the difference between an xbox & xbox360.

i just asked a simple question
its better to hear stuff from people who use it on a day to day basis than googling it

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Haha funny name!

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