Xbox 360 - Take 2
I really missed my Xbox 360 that I had to leave behind in Hungary. Alas not only its power supply wouldn't work on 110V, even the DVD drive and the game discs were region coded, so it was not worth carrying it over here. Not that I had enough space for it in my suitcase… I brought 3 games that I couldn't even use yet, as I bought them in the USA before I knew about the regions, so all I had was my achievements on my Windows Live account. But now the wait is over – I bought a new unit and it was a really sweet deal: a new revision of the Xbox hardware with Call of Duty – Modern Warfare 3 theme, 320GB hard disk (instead of 250GB or none), two themed controllers (instead of one) and the MW3 game ($60 value) altogether for $350. Compared to the old one, the DVD easily could be described as silent, the cooling is hardly audible and the hard disk space is just incomparable to my old 20GB disk where the usable space was about 13GB. I need it only to install game discs on it for faster (and silent) reading and to store game content, so I guess I won't run out of space anytime soon. I ordered some games too that I wanted, so my current library is like this… CoD MW3, Forza Motorsport 4, NFS Hot Pursuit, Assassin's Creed, Tropico 4, GTA 4, Mirror's Edge. I've got some other games in the pipeline but first I'd like to get bored with the ones I have.
My other gaming platforms are the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DSi, where I mostly play with platformers, currently I'm trying to beat Rayman Origins which is friggin' amazing!
Doesn't it bother you that Wii U is almost here and a new Xbox is to be expected in 2013? Nope. I don't think I would buy the Wii U anytime soon, there are (and perhaps will be) plenty of games for the old device that I'd like to play with. As for the Xbox, it's like 2 years from now, initially it will be much more expensive than later and for quite some time it will lack games that could really make the hardware sweat. I've got so many games I want to play with, and much more will be released before it reaches the end of its life cycle… So, nope, don't care about depreciation that much. It would be too mean to bring up Android here so I won't do so. :-)
