New "Slim" Xbox 360

bmacma

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Microsoft give them out for free through their xbox.com website.

How do you get one for free?

turnfan

bmacma wrote: »

How do you get one for free?

They don't offer them for free anymore, but they are on sale in shops now.
You might pick one up secondhand?

super_furry

Cheapest I've seen for them is €16.99 in HMV.

bmacma

A point to mention is that the new xbox can be loud if the disc isnt' sitting right in the machine. Not sure if other people noticed this but I found it very loud once or twice and seemed to resolve it by quitting, ejecting and trying to centre the disc in the machine..

anyone else find this?

Easy Rider

Gamestop 249, Alan Wake, Batman Lego and some Motorbike game all included. Plus a voucher to get Fifa 11 for 25 euro when it is out...

I have noticed no noise at all, it is so quite...can't believe the difference...

Mr Freeze

bmacma wrote: »

How do you get one for free?

turnfan wrote: »

They don't offer them for free anymore, but they are on sale in shops now.
You might pick one up secondhand?

I bought a transfer cable for about 10 euro on ebay a few weeks before the new xbox came out...fecking thing didn't work. The HDD powered on when plugged in, but no prompt appeared on the screen for the transfer, and in Memory the HDD was not showing up, so beware buying a second hand one just in case.

I just transferred all the saves across via USB, it was sound, a tad slow, but no issues.

-=al=-

16.99 they are

i heard of microsoft giving them away but didnt really bother checking it out, hopefully i can just return the cable today and try n sort out a deal, fingers crossed, cause i completly dont need the cable at all now, kinda annoying... all good

bmacma

Easy Rider wrote: »

Gamestop 249, Alan Wake, Batman Lego and some Motorbike game all included. Plus a voucher to get Fifa 11 for 25 euro when it is out...

I have noticed no noise at all, it is so quite...can't believe the difference...

Got the same deal and tried out that game Pure, it's pretty decent actually.. Good laugh needed on breaks from Alan Wake

Riesen_Meal

As an owner of an already "whisper quiet" PS3 and an Elite Xbox which all my games are stored on, so it aint that loud anyway, should I upgrade?

niallon

Fieldog wrote: »

As an owner of an already "whisper quiet" PS3 and an Elite Xbox which all my games are stored on, so it aint that loud anyway, should I upgrade?

Na...if you have the HD space to install your 360 games then there's probably no need...though the Elite trade in prices are fairly attractive. I'd have been very much against the idea of trading up for the sake of it but as I expressed earlier in the thread there was certain factors that justified it to me but I doubt they'd apply to many others!

miralize

It does give you an extra year warranty, so thats how I see my €76 spent. Also I got something shiny, new, and less power hungry

kevalz

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Riesen_Meal

miralize wrote: »

It does give you an extra year warranty, so thats how I see my €76 spent. Also I got something shiny, new, and less power hungry

Thats exactly what im thinking, id rather have that security, I doubt its guaranteed for RROD not that thats going to happen is it, M$? Hellllloooo?

Thats an interesting question, if something DOES happen to go wrong, is it the same 3 year guarantee as a standard Xbox 360?

As a lot of people over on the PS forums launch PS3 machines all seemed to get hardware failure in or around the same time and of course I would fear some form of M$ disaster!

DOC09UNAM

Fieldog wrote: »

Thats exactly what im thinking, id rather have that security, I doubt its guaranteed for RROD not that thats going to happen is it, M$? Hellllloooo?

Thats an interesting question, if something DOES happen to go wrong, is it the same 3 year guarantee as a standard Xbox 360?

As a lot of people over on the PS forums launch PS3 machines all seemed to get hardware failure in or around the same time and of course I would fear some form of M$ disaster!

The only reason it is guaranteed not to RROD, is because there is no longer any red lights.

-=al=-

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

The only reason it is guaranteed not to RROD, is because there is no longer any red lights.

i figured that too when i first heard about the non red ring-ing

it now just spontaneously combusts when its broken

gizmo

Fieldog wrote: »

Thats exactly what im thinking, id rather have that security, I doubt its guaranteed for RROD not that thats going to happen is it, M$? Hellllloooo?

Thats an interesting question, if something DOES happen to go wrong, is it the same 3 year guarantee as a standard Xbox 360?

As a lot of people over on the PS forums launch PS3 machines all seemed to get hardware failure in or around the same time and of course I would fear some form of M$ disaster!

First off, please stop calling them "M$" it makes you sound neither smart nor clever.

As for the RRoD issue with the new Slims, they come with the same one year warranty as normal. There is no extended RRoD-based warranty because there is no RRoD issue. If one develops and it is to the same extent as the last one then I think it's safe to assume there'll be a similar extended warranty offered.

As for the only thing guaranteeing it won't RRoD being the lack of lights, well I'd say it's more to do with the redesigned and, to be honest, far more efficient internals in the newer models. That and the fact that it'll automatically shut down if it begins to overheat, should help protect people should anything go wrong and/or those silly enough to leave their consoles in poorly ventilated areas.

20 Times 20 Times

miralize wrote: »

It does give you an extra year warranty, so thats how I see my €76 spent. Also I got something shiny, new, and less power hungry

explain how you got it for so cheap please :-)

miralize

Preordered early (first week) in Game. Traded in my xbox 120Gb for €125 off. Also traded in my wireless adapter for €30ish i think. And I put down a deposit a few weeks ago for €20. So really €96.

Owen

Anybody else find theirs is noise when standing up playing a disc, and whisper quiet when on it's side?

Mr Freeze

It's nearly whisper quiet on its side, have not stood it up when on!

Question for the people who transferred across their arcade games, did ye transfer the licenses too?

I didn't bother and they run fine on the new xbox.

I forgot to transfer one or 2 games and just used the download again option, those games run fine on the new xbox and still run on the old one too.

mcgovern

CKWPORT wrote: »

It's nearly whisper quiet on its side, have not stood it up when on!

Question for the people who transferred across their arcade games, did ye transfer the licenses too?

I didn't bother and they run fine on the new xbox.

I forgot to transfer one or 2 games and just used the download again option, those games run fine on the new xbox and still run on the old one too.

They'll work fine once you are connected to Xbox Live, if you don't transfer over the licence, they'll only show up as trial games when you are not on Live.

Mr Freeze

Cheers, thats sound, I'm always on live anyways so that fine.

As long as its not something you can be banned for.

mcgovern

CKWPORT wrote: »

Cheers, thats sound, I'm always on live anyways so that fine.

As long as its not something you can be banned for.

Nope, its perfectly fine to do, I did it for a long time.

The Recliner

Got one yesterday evening

It is so much quieter than my old one it is ridiculous, it really is what it should have been like from day 1 though

Finally I wont have to turn up the TV so much to drown out the xbox, I swear my neighbours could hear my TV better than I could when I had the xbox on

phant0m

Does anyone know who will be selling the Reach bundle in Ireland (it's exclusive to GAME and Gamestation in the UK)? Was gonna upgrade to the new 360 this week but I think I'll just wait for the Reach bundle now as it is far better value.

WarZoneBrother

phant0m wrote: »

Does anyone know who will be selling the Reach bundle in Ireland (it's exclusive to GAME and Gamestation in the UK)? Was gonna upgrade to the new 360 this week but I think I'll just wait for the Reach bundle now as it is far better value.

Yeah I think i'm going to wait now .. 250 pound and it includes halo reach and 2 controllers instead of one... I just know it will be sold in GAME I think I will pick it up in the north to save a few bucks..

NTMK

phant0m wrote: »

Does anyone know who will be selling the Reach bundle in Ireland (it's exclusive to GAME and Gamestation in the UK)? Was gonna upgrade to the new 360 this week but I think I'll just wait for the Reach bundle now as it is far better value.

I imagine GAME have exclusive rights to it in Ireland as well (that was the case with the MW2 console anyway)

smilerf

Got mine a few days ago in Gamestop Clonmel. got a good deal i thought
Xbox slim 5 games and 2 wireless pads for 270
ok games are kinda old but hey
halo 3 ostd or watever its called forza 3 pure lego batman and fifa 09

miralize

smilerf wrote: »

Got mine a few days ago in Gamestop Clonmel. got a good deal i thought
Xbox slim 5 games and 2 wireless pads for 270
ok games are kinda old but hey
halo 3 ostd or watever its called forza 3 pure lego batman and fifa 09

09?? jesus surely they could give you fifa 10

SeanyMc22

Finally took the plunge today, went into HMV knowing they had no stock of MW2 as someone posted earlier so asked the bloke could I swap it for a chart game. For €260 I got Red Dead and went for Splinter Cell as I had Alan Wake already, then after trades it only cost €105. Now to sell my 20gig...