Xbox 360 Elite drops to $250 (with mail-in rebate)
Microsoft is offering a $50 mail-in rebate on the Elite through October 5.
Nobody likes a mail-in rebate, but if you're the patient type who doesn't mind waiting to get your cash back on your purchase, Microsoft will send you $50 if you buy the Xbox 360 Elite between now and October 5 (this is for U.S. customers only).
While you'll have to fill out all the requisite paperwork to get the discount, that mail-in rebate drops the price of the Elite--which only a short time ago cost $400--down to $250. Details of the rebate are here.
As other blogs have pointed out, that $50 might come in handy to buy an HDMI cable, Wi-Fi adapter, or a game. All we can say is, thank you, Sony, for dropping the price of the PS3 to $299. There's nothing like a good price war to keep things interesting in the game-console space.
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(Source: Joystiq via Major Nelson)
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I stress the word "good" and well-known because last time I said that someone decided to be a ****** and copy paste games that nobody even knows about on both consoles with wikipedia.
why would you buy a console with no game on it?
weak online gaming.
and yes, there are a lot of good games on it... lets start with metal gear 4(best game ever), Little Big planet(cute), Rachet and Clank, Uncharted 2 looks Amazing... Gran Turismo is only the Best game ever... Also I think Blu ray is a good thing... Comparing me playing MGS4(ps3) and Lost Odyssey(360), i definitely prefer the former... i am mentioning this because FF13 is coming out next year! so is God of War(best action game with the best narration ever.. u should get the GoW1and 2 pack that is being re-released in HD)..also, the ninja gaiden games are so much better on ps3(Bouncing boobies!!! sorry if u are a chick)
well my friend eltoro, i hope that answers your question....ignore the other ****** replies below, they do not answer your question
1. Metal Gear Solid 4
2. Uncharted 1
3. Uncharted 2
4. Little Big Planet
5. God of War 3, etc....
and games that you can also play on PS3:
1. Assassins Creed 1
2. Assassins Creed 2
3. GTA4 (just in case you dont know what GTA means, it stand for GRAND THEFT AUTO)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
4. Need for Speed Shift
and more... can the xbox play Bluray movies? NO
can the xbox connect to the internet without any fees? NO
come on man, the reason they made all those plasma TVs is to watch Hi-Def movies! so, Bluray is the way to go!
oh by the way, do you know what a Bluray is? just let me know ok, i'll be glad to help you out since it sounds like you dont know what a PS3 is. NYAHAHAHAHA!
halo
forza
gears of war
halo wars
mass effect
prey
soon, project natal
and many others still to come....
playstation 3 had
killzone
resistance
gran turismo
uncharted
metal gear
and others still to come.
point being, both consoles have alot to offer. sure, the ps3, now at $299 is the better bargain if you're buying it for the bluray. however if it's just for the games, then do your homework, both consoles are great options. the ps3, was still a better bargain when it was 399, but not everyone could afford that. still, sony has alot of catching up to do. as for the online service, microsoft may charge $50/year, but it's a small price to pay for the excellent service they provide. xbox live, in my opinion, is much better than the playstation network. i am a hardcore gamer, i buy the consoles for the games, and own the ps3, xbox360 and wii. as far as gaming goes, the xbox360 is by far my favorite. the wii got kinda boring, going through the same motions. the ps3 still has their best stuff ahead of them!
and earlier i mentioned project natal for the xbox360, do your homework on that. it's going to revolutionize how we play games... much more than the wii did.
Not really. I just ordered the PS3. At that price it's a no-brainer. I think this is the tipping point where Sony finally starts to gain traction and Xbox falls way behind. I've been Wii-only up to now, sitting on the sidelines waiting to see where the Sony-Microsoft battle would go. I think Sony will have an unsurmountable advantage now.
Too bad it will be mad expensive until they realize that they overcharge for it. (deja vu???)
I'm really looking forward to playing Ratchet and Klank and Uncharted. The best part is, I'm not paying full retail for games because there are lots of Greatest Hits out there for $20 to $30!
-Gaming online is gaming online. There is absolutely no difference in the gaming experience playing online with Call of Duty 4 Modern Warefare on Xbox 360 or PS3. You get the same latency, packet loss, etc. but that is very dependent on your ISP as well. Why do people think Xbox 360 is better online? Well, we found out why.
**Microsoft games are all (majority if not all) P2P networking based. So if you are playing Halo on a server, if it lags, you will blame the 3rd party providing the server or your own ISP. Microsoft is not blamed for that. If the server lags, you blame the server if everyone is also lagging-not Microsoft dedicated servers. If you are the only one lagging, you will ask why am I lagging, what is wrong with my ISP and try to fix it.
**Sony provides dedicated servers as well as allows P2P on some games. Because they are Sony servers, people yell Sony sucks. Hence, people use the word Sony has crappy servers, Sony's name is in it.
-Download speed are the friggin same. You can't say one is better than the other because it's dependent on 1) if servers are working, which most of the time they are if not all the time. 2) Your ISP.
Personally, I think the $50.00 charge is a piece of mind and what Microsoft is doing is just making money off you for P2P. FYI: This is like when Napster was free, it was P2P downloading music. Did you have to pay for it back then? No, you do now though but why? Copyright laws. If there were no copyright laws, do you think Napster would want to charge? Probably. Why? Maintanence upkeep and subscription is the new thing. MMOs etc. charge you subscription so you can play on their servers. Xbox 360 is charging so you can use their network to connect to a server that's been approved and support the 3rd parties to have good performing servers. Nowadays, if your server doesn't work well, your company sucks and you need to hire new programmers, so you would think. But majority of the well known companies don't need support, as we all know. They have brilliant programmers and network engineers so hence, gaming online is gaming online.
Because basically, you really didn't type much
online gaming the same? comparing voice chat shows the difference. ps3 (when it works) sounds like everyone is talking in a box, while the 360 is generally always clear (the flipside is half the time you do not want to hear your teammates on the 360). Other than cod4, every game I attempted online on the ps3 was lagtastic. MGS4, killzone, even littlebigplanet dropped frames and randomly disconnected.
Do not misunderstand, I like the ps3. The swappable hard drive, to built in wifi, of course bluray, and a decent d-pad on the controller (the 360 one is plain horrible) but to say they are the same is disingenuous. Even the friends list and community settings are better on the 360, and since it has netflix and a great party voice chat system.
Yes you do get what you pay for, ps3= best hardware. Xbox360=overpriced. Xbox360 at $250 is very fair.
im not trying to start a flame war here, so PEACE
i wasnt comparing the 360 to the ps3. i was comparing XBL to PSN. dont get me wrong there are good and bad
things about both OS i just feel that because its a paid service its a better product overall.(a better tasting one as i so put it) now this is just my opinion.
and does the ps3 have the best hardware? yea ill give you that. but most gamemakers dont know how to use all that power so that kind of hurts the ps3 and gamers in the short run.
is the 360 overpriced? yea ill give you that too. BUT DONT FORGET the ps3 was overpriced for a long time too.
and i really dont care about the rebate, i never turn the dam things in anyways. plus im getting the new 250 g call of duty xbox. cause no matter what any woman says bigger is better my friend. lol
I still think the $50.00 charge for Gold Live service is just a scam and psychological. If I pay for it I get better is not always correct.
I mean, Linux was always better than Windows it's just hard for people to understand how to use it and it was free back then and now. Right now Snow Leopard and Windows have improved drastically, but imo Linux is still better (although this can be a huge debate that can go for years).
well we all have our own opinion on things, so lets just agree to disagree my friend :)
Do you guys really care about gaming that much? Isn't that a little sad? I have a PS3 for my 8 year old, he seem to like it. I play some of his games maybe 20 minutes every other week (when I am not insulting geeks online)
of course it was a lot of months later but...I still got one wohoo! Lol
Just get a PS3 and get on with real next generation HD console gaming.
Or maybe the guy hates the xbox360 for breaking down on him? No everyone will keep on buying a new one dude. You;re the die hard xbox fanboy though.
ive only bought 1, the dam thing has rrod on me 2 times. but with the 3 year warranty MS pays for everything so there is no need to buy a new xbox.
and i have both systems. MGS4 and little big planet are badass games. but so are gears of war and halo.
so no im not a xbox fanboy, im a gaming fanboy
I have used the PS3 ONLY for blu-ray and storing music/video, BUT I play all my games on the 360. Yes, I love watching blu-rays on my samsung 52B650, but I find XBox live is where its at......I dont even see myself buying any games for the PS3 w exception of GT5 (if it ever comes out...)
The PS3 has nothing exciting going for it.
All the games they have are a played out old man sneaking around stealthily, a sock puppet swinging from tree to tree like a monkey and a Tomb Raider knock off that sucks more than Tomb Raider.
Have no need for wifi since the 360 is not a handheld and I don't need an optical drive that's already obsolete since I stream and torrent my hd movies.
Sony should just throw in the towel in the gaming world since they're completely clueless.
you realize people call MGS4 one of the greatest games of all time right?
And i'd love to see your pirated torrented version of an HD movie look better than blu-ray, and have all the features including 7.1 surround sound, menu's, all that nice stuff. Don't get me started on streaming 1080p.
Xbox fanboys are funny.
The sock puppet comment - is that aimed at Little Big Planet? Astonishing game if you are into doing anything creative. I was actually amazed at the how good it was (I thought it looked kind of silly until I played it). My son and I played it and I have not laughed so hard in years - that was worth the price of the whole system right there for me (but I know I would be in the minority).
Haven't played MSG4 - played a demo and didn't get into it, but then again that was just playing a demo for about five minutes. Might revisit the demo. I could say the same of Halo - played that a bit (PC) and found it just kind of average, but again didn't play it enough to really get into it.
Tomb Raider knock-off? Uncharted I presume. I didn't like Tomb Raider, but have to say Uncharted is quite a fun game, with good mechanics and some quite memorable moments so far (only a couple of hours into it at the moment).
I know you hope that Blu-Ray is obsolete, but even a fanatical MS fanboy has to realize that is not the case. It will be some day, much as beta-max, VHS, LD, etc. DVD will die out at some point, but not any time soon.
The PS3 has a 10 year life cycle, so don't expect a PS4 until the tail end of the 2010-2020 decade, according to Playstaion execs. The PS3 system has an incredible amount of computing power that hasn't been tapped yet, the software isn't handling parallel processing efficiently yet, neither is it taking full advantage of the teraflop abilities of the GPU.
the greatest console on the market with no games on it.
It is so powerful so that no game editor can take advantage of that powerful cell broadband processor.
The PS3 online can be compared to food you find in the garbage can. It's free!
But I'd rather walk in the store and PAY for something better.
listen you should stop backing this ps3 because most of the exclusivities of sony are coming on xbox360 (Tekken, Metal gear , Final fantasy) we never know there is going to be more. they coming to xbox360 because game editors know that they can sell without xbox.
LOL!
- by El_Gringo_Guapo September 22, 2009 7:45 PM PDT
- I have both consoles.... Whatever the 360 is, it isn't a Sony product by any stretch....it's a piece of chinese junk PC that is built by the same crappy engineers that brought you the BSOD and Windows Vista. Two of my buddies who bought 360s when I did (30+ crowd) are all on either their 2nd or 3rd unit now. I'm on my 3rd (and last) unit.
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Showing 1 of 3 pages (109 Comments)The PS3 is built a lot better, it's solid, and doesn't sound like a jet turbine when you turn it on....