Is anyone sticking with the Xbox 360?

Will be keeping mine and may pick up one of the new slims just for back-up. Still have my Original Xbox hooked up and it still gets used daily :) the 360 still has tons of life in it.
 
Typically I sell off all my last gen or give it away when next gen comes, but this time I'm going to keep all my 360 stuff. Worth keeping for all the XBLA/indie games. If I was to sell my console, extra controller and handful of games, I'd probably get no more than $100 or so anyway. So I'll keep it.
 
Just found out they don't plan on releasing Rocksmith 2014 to next gen (more likely new game next year). So I'll be sticking with the 360 for now.
 
Splintercell32 said:
I'll be waiting for probably a year to buy a next gen console. (or at least that's the plan) I did this once before and it paid off in regards to the much improved hardware, and I didn't really miss out on much as far as games.

The big one though is that I have such a large backlog (like 18 games!) of top quality games left to play. I have full retail games, arcade games, and some dlc left to play in most every genre i'm into. Plus I have like 5 more games to buy when they get cheap, which includes Skyrim GOTY which by itself will keep me occupied for months.

Also the 360 is going to enjoy years of support after the nexgen consoles hit. I feel real good aboout waiting a little bit this time around.
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I started Skyrim last week, and I can see playing that game for a long, long time. GTA5 is still in the shrinkwrap because I can't bring myself to get that game out of my console :-). If it's one thing that I learned from this generation, it is to wait until the major bugs/kinks are worked out before purchasing new hardware.
 
TDbank24 said:
I'll be getting the Xbox One as soon as i can but i'll always hold onto my 360 because it's one of the best consoles of all time with amazing games. Since the One isn't backwards compatible it's an easy choice to hold onto the 360.
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Yessir..

I thought about getting rid of my 360 but I suspect I'll keep it and give it to my wife so she can sneak and play it when she thinks I'm sleeping. Plus there are too many games I've bought and are on my hard drive, not to mention movies etc. Plus its just a great console mate. Just a great console...
 
Z A C K said:
This is the mentality I have going into just about every generation, but then I never actually end up playing any of my old games at all.
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Yup same here. I prolly won't get the XB1 for a few months after launch at least. I have to big a backlog of good games to playthrough, and if I don't while I have a 360, I know I never will.
 
I'll be playing GTA V but that's it and I imagine it'll be rare when DR3 BF4 and FIFA 14 next gen are all in my life :crazy:
 
I might be sticking with 360 for a little while. I have a number of things in my head. One, is that realistically I know Microsoft will only support 360 for about two more years. I know they say they will longer, but in all honesty after this Fall there's not going to be that many big titles on 360 any more. All the big exclusives will be going to Xbox One. They will look better & play better over there. Sure, 360 will get ports for about two more years of *some* of the bigger name titles, but by a year or two there won't be anything major I want for it anymore.

The flip side to this is that Xbox One is $600 when you include buying one game with it. I'd be paying $100 for a camera I didn't even want to begin with. Then I'm paying for a system that, truth be told, is Microsoft's vision for the next ten years. They started this vision over ten years ago & now it's coming to fruition. What I'm talking about is how yes, they will still be making games for Xbox One, a lot of them, but their main focus is on digital entertainment. I am not as interested in digital entertainment as I am games. I already have a computer & cable box for digital entertainment. Everybody knows that games were just Microsoft's "foot in the door" to take over the living room & digital entertainment purchases.

So as a hardcore gamer, Xbox One costing $500 for a camera I don't want, then already outdated RAM & processing in it along with the fact that two cores are shut off on the CPU for the operating system for all these other features & 3 gigs of the already middle-of-the-road by today's standards (8 gigs) being used as well for the OS...that makes me uncertain how much I really want the console to begin with. That's hard to say as a long time Xbox fan.

I may just go to PC gaming. The only draw of Xbox anymore really is Xbox Live & all my friends I've made over the years. With PC, I already own a quad core system with 8 gigs of RAM in it & I'd only really need to buy a graphics card that would make my PC already look a number of steps above what Xbox One will offer. Xbox anymore is really about establishing an online cloud-based infrastructure & slowly rolling this out to consumers. It's been planned strategic marketing for the last ten years, baby steps at a time. I bet this will honestly be Microsoft's last full-fledged console. I believe for the most part that Xbox One will carry us past the next ten years & we will be using the same box ten years from now to simply stream games/content to. They will eliminate the cost of making consoles, they will eliminate piracy, they will eliminate a lot of the costs of distributing games, & they will reap all the profits from selling "invisible" merchandise, as in no real product, a bunch of ones & zeros on their servers honestly, & they will try to monopolize the whole digital entertainment industry through the Xbox One.
 
devilsgrin_6 said:
I might be sticking with 360 for a little while. I have a number of things in my head. One, is that realistically I know Microsoft will only support 360 for about two more years. I know they say they will longer, but in all honesty after this Fall there's not going to be that many big titles on 360 any more. All the big exclusives will be going to Xbox One. They will look better & play better over there. Sure, 360 will get ports for about two more years of *some* of the bigger name titles, but by a year or two there won't be anything major I want for it anymore.

The flip side to this is that Xbox One is $600 when you include buying one game with it. I'd be paying $100 for a camera I didn't even want to begin with. Then I'm paying for a system that, truth be told, is Microsoft's vision for the next ten years. They started this vision over ten years ago & now it's coming to fruition. What I'm talking about is how yes, they will still be making games for Xbox One, a lot of them, but their main focus is on digital entertainment. I am not as interested in digital entertainment as I am games. I already have a computer & cable box for digital entertainment. Everybody knows that games were just Microsoft's "foot in the door" to take over the living room & digital entertainment purchases.

So as a hardcore gamer, Xbox One costing $500 for a camera I don't want, then already outdated RAM & processing in it along with the fact that two cores are shut off on the CPU for the operating system for all these other features & 3 gigs of the already middle-of-the-road by today's standards (8 gigs) being used as well for the OS...that makes me uncertain how much I really want the console to begin with. That's hard to say as a long time Xbox fan.

I may just go to PC gaming. The only draw of Xbox anymore really is Xbox Live & all my friends I've made over the years. With PC, I already own a quad core system with 8 gigs of RAM in it & I'd only really need to buy a graphics card that would make my PC already look a number of steps above what Xbox One will offer. Xbox anymore is really about establishing an online cloud-based infrastructure & slowly rolling this out to consumers. It's been planned strategic marketing for the last ten years, baby steps at a time. I bet this will honestly be Microsoft's last full-fledged console. I believe for the most part that Xbox One will carry us past the next ten years & we will be using the same box ten years from now to simply stream games/content to. They will eliminate the cost of making consoles, they will eliminate piracy, they will eliminate a lot of the costs of distributing games, & they will reap all the profits from selling "invisible" merchandise, as in no real product, a bunch of ones & zeros on their servers honestly, & they will try to monopolize the whole digital entertainment industry through the Xbox One.
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After actually reading your whole post, all I can reply is this: Wait for it to launch and wait some months or a year before buying. That's what I'm doing.
 
devilsgrin_6 said:
So as a hardcore gamer, Xbox One costing $500 for a camera I don't want, then already outdated RAM & processing in it along with the fact that two cores are shut off on the CPU for the operating system for all these other features & 3 gigs of the already middle-of-the-road by today's standards (8 gigs) being used as well for the OS...that makes me uncertain how much I really want the console to begin with. That's hard to say as a long time Xbox fan.
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I'm not taking issue with your opinions at all, because they're obviously yours and there's nothing wrong with them. I will say that "outdated RAM" is inaccurate at best - if you build / buy a computer today, what type of memory will your system use? DDR3. GDDR5 is wonderful for graphics cards, but it's not especially suited for main system memory, and until DDR4 comes out, DDR3 will still be the standard for system memory.
 
I also meant as far as "outdated" RAM not only the type, but the amount. It's only 5 gigs of RAM. They are required to leave 3 of the 8 gigs for the operating system for TV/Cable Box features. (that I didn't want to begin with) 5 gigs is not enough for a ten year cycle. It's already outdated. My PC that I bought over 3 years ago has 8 gigs alone. Most systems when they came out in the past were ahead of PCs. The Xbox One is behind PC's when you consider 8 core processing with 2 cores turned off for the operating systems & only 5 gigs of available RAM.

They are talking about doing cloud processing in the future, so it might be the last physical Xbox we would buy. Realistically though, that is not going to happen until a couple years down the road & that is a new market. They have said they have tested Halo 5 running on the cloud, but it was 45ms ping at the lowest just for video signal. (i.e. ideal conditions) How is a multiplayer game like Halo 5 going to run for the average person that would use the cloud at this stage in internet technology? I'm guessing only a small percentage of the U.S. has high enough speed for it to work well for all people in a multiplayer game. You're talking needing not only high speed download & upload speed, but ideal network conditions as far as no bottlenecks along the way in the networks from hop to hop. That's milliseconds of ping just to get a compressed video footage to you of a game, then to register a button press, back to the server, other person receiving the button press over & over...in fast, twitch-based FPS's? How would Call of Duty work like that, a fast FPS? You already notice now when there's slower ping times in the room & you're off by a few hit-markers or you felt like you pulled up first when your internet's ping was actually behind. Now they want to stream you the full video signal on top of that? Granted it will be dedicated servers, I'm just saying across the whole U.S. with all different types of connections, how will that play out as an experience until 5-10 years down the road when internet speeds or bottlenecks might be better? I can imagine old XBL Arcade games working well & old backwards compatible games. (like they are talking about doing) We'll just have to wait & see, but it's hard to invest in that vision right now along with $100 more for a camera & in the back of my mind knowing they made an relatively under powered "all-in-one" system for the digital entertainment plans over actual gaming first. It's been well documented that is their vision for the future.
 
I'll be keeping my 360 mainly cause I won't be satisfied with the money I get back for it if I trade or sell it. I'll no doubt want to play GTA online for a good while yet anyway.
 
It'll be interesting to see how XBLA goes on the 360. It'll either die out completely or a small contingent might remain. I could see that happening even with Xbox Live Indie Games.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Right here. Not willingly, but hay, bills gotta be paid and price cuts come around eventually. I don't feel bad about it though. Plenty of juice left in terms of games coming out on the 360, and let's be honest here, most of us probably haven't played all that the current gen has to offer. My backlog alone is brimming and I finally started playing Assassin's Creed 2. I'll probably wait a year at least before buying a X1. If I wait longer than that, I'll try and net a special edition console. Lots of cool ones got released this gen and I'm gonna try and net me one of those bastards.
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I'm purposefully staying behind on console tech because they're to expensive. I only just got the 360 last year. I'll keep it until it breaks.

I really can't see dropping close to $500 to $600 for a XBox One bundle. Just to expensive for me.

Also, maybe I'll get a serious break on the price of games. I still have to play Bioshock: Infinite.
 
Videodrome said:
I'm purposefully staying behind on console tech because they're to expensive. I only just got the 360 last year. I'll keep it until it breaks.

I really can't see dropping close to $500 to $600 for a XBox One bundle. Just to expensive for me.

Also, maybe I'll get a serious break on the price of games. I still have to play Bioshock: Infinite.
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Yeah, pretty much this. It usually works out for the best because unless you get the console for free, the price of getting games, the console itself, and maybe even one or two extra controllers really add up.
 
Videodrome said:
I'm purposefully staying behind on console tech because they're to expensive. I only just got the 360 last year. I'll keep it until it breaks.

I really can't see dropping close to $500 to $600 for a XBox One bundle. Just to expensive for me.

Also, maybe I'll get a serious break on the price of games. I still have to play Bioshock: Infinite.
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Yeah, I like saving money, and waiting a while is a good way to do that. Nothing depreciates in value faster than a videogame. I love getting games like Bioshock Infinite for $20.

I'm not sure how long it'll take to see a price drop on the consoles themselves. A price drop on X1 will probably come before one on PS4. If you waited until a year ago to buy a 360, though, you obviously aren't in any hurry. Me, I'll probably buy a PS4 next year, and I'm not counting on a price drop, since they're already selling at a loss. The games will be cheaper, though.
 
I got Gears 3 for 10€ 2 weeks ago, & skyrim is now about 24€. Once I am done with Gears 3, I may pick up skyrim.

If you can wait, there is certainly quite a lot of saving.
 
I'm getting the X1 day 1, but I will be keeping my 360, and renew my warranty yearly. I got the H4 console. I only have about 80 gigs of memory left. All my games are O.D. So I will probably let my kids use it for their shows, and to watch tv. Btw If you have TWC you get all your stations in HD on the console, even if you don't pay for a HD package. So let the kids play and watch in one room. Then have X1 in the living room.
The 360 will be getting games for years. The only problem I see is what to keep on the hardrive once it stops being supported. That way I can keep my classic games, arcade, and tv/ movies.
 
Anderson said:
Nothing depreciates in value faster than a videogame.
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I don't know, man. The second you drive a new car off the lot it becomes a "used" car & they are usually instantly worth 25% less than what you paid. That's pretty fast too for a lot bigger investment. lol.
 
devilsgrin_6 said:
I don't know, man. The second you drive a new car off the lot it becomes a "used" car & they are usually instantly worth 25% less than what you paid. That's pretty fast too for a lot bigger investment. lol.
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That's true.
 
I'm upgrading to next gen consoles. I'll still play any good 360 exclusives that come, but that's it.
 
I would consider selling my 360 but I wont get enough for it plus I have way to many games on my hard drive that I would obviously get nothing for so no thanks. This has been my favorite system of all time so ill probably just hold on to it. I wont be getting the new Xbox till January most likely anyways.
 
CHROMExSKULL said:
I would consider selling my 360 but I wont get enough for it plus I have way to many games on my hard drive that I would obviously get nothing for so no thanks. This has been my favorite system of all time so ill probably just hold on to it. I wont be getting the new Xbox till January most likely anyways.
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You could always net in the price of the games and gamertag.
 
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