Should I buy a 360?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Here's the story:

My brother had a launch unit 360 that I used, but it broke a couple months ago and instead of getting it repaired, he just put it away in his drawer until the warranty ran out. There's no way we're paying $100 to get it fixed when it will likely break again in a few months.

Of course, he refuses to buy a new 360, so I'm thinking of buying one for myself.

A couple of questions:

- Is the Arcade unit the new smart buy (especially since I already have a hard drive)?
- What do I need to know about the DRM bullshit?
- Should I wait a bit or buy one now (and risk missing a price drop, improved model, deal, etc)?

thx

[demi]

Price drop to what? It's $200 now. Quermo

DRM is content you buy is tied t that Xbox & Gamertag you're using. Put your Gamertag (be it by recovery, memory card, or hard drive) on another Xbox, it reverts back to trial mode (or doesnt even work in the case of DLC), until you connect to Live to authenticate - and even then you have to stay on Live. This is remedied with the License Transfer Tool in the case of your Xbox dying, but you can only use that once every year.

[Human Snorenado]

Now is the right time to buy, imo.  Not likely to see a price drop in the next six months or so I'm guessing, and if you get an arcade you'll get the latest chipset (Jasper) which is the way to go. 

If you get the Arcade, you'll probably want to get a harddrive.  You can get a 60 gig, headset and 3 months of live for $100.  That's what I did.  Oh, also be aware that if you get the Arcade you'll need to get an hdmi cable or component cables since the arcade only comes with yer standard a/v. 

[Himu]

Get an arcade unit, buy a use hd.

[siamesedreamer]

Why don't you buy an arcade and use your bro's hdd?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Why don't you buy an arcade and use your bro's hdd?

Yeah, that's what I was planning on doing.

Should have put that in the OP

[demi]

Btw

My brother had a launch unit 360 that I used, but it broke a couple months ago and instead of getting it repaired, he just put it away in his drawer until the warranty ran out. There's no way we're paying $100 to get it fixed when it will likely break again in a few months.

If it "broke" by red-rings, every xbox is warrantied for up to 3 years of purchase date.

[drohne]

it's been more than three years since launch tho. i'm glad i replaced my launch 360 in that amazon black friday glitch, cos i'm sure the fucker would have died on me the moment its warranty ran out

[demi]

True, I missed the word launch. I would still call them and if they say you're out of warranty... tell em to fuck off and hang up

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Does the Arcade come with a memory card?

[Bocsius]

Arcade now comes with 256MB of on board memory (on the newest models), and 214MB of that are free. I imagine most of it will then be used by the NXE.