5689

Yeah he did, he was shocked that I had a functioning white console. It was really not white anymore though, more like a dingy brown.

5690

Holy crap, I missed that they were doing trade ins on non-elite, non-S consoles. Now there’s some food for thought.

5691

Wait, I thought their trade-in deal was for Slim units only? What deal did you get? I have an old 360 Elite that I haven’t turned on in a year or so that I wouldn’t mind trading in if I can get a decent deal for it. Also, do they just give you a gift card, or is it actually enforced that it can only go toward an Xbone?

5692

I have an original launch 360 (refurbished) with no HDMI port. How much do I get?

5693

I traded in a white 360, launch day model which hadn’t red ringed, along with a 250gb HD and a barely functional controller. I got a $100 gift card and a coupon for $50 off an Xbox One.

This deal ends tomorrow, and all the best buys in the Boston area are sold out of the $349 bundle. I had to drive to NH to get one. A few of the kinect bundles and CoD bundles were in stock though.

5694

I have one of those as well, but non-refurb and original condition! Still trucking on, as in it sounds like one when it is turned on.

5695

I have an original white 360 as well. It was a 20 GB model at one point, but I bought a replacement 250 GB hard drive at some point. It feels weird that these are considered ancient now - I have some 360 games in my backlog still.

5696

I picked up a XBO today when the store had a 20x points thing so I could get $170-220 back on spending $500.

5697

The website says but most BB employees don’t seem to care or know. When I traded in my 360 the girl just looked for the deal on the computer and gave the credit not even bothering to make sure its working(mine does btw, wasn’t trying to pawn of a broken unit).

I wasn’t looking into getting a One yet but this deal of a system plus game for $200 after credit was too good to pass up.

5698

Now I’m feeling like I bought my XBox One a bit too early. Not because of the deals, I got it the “free game + $50 XBox Live credit” deal from a month back, which isn’t that much worse than current prices. No, it’s that I’m looking for games to put on my Christmas wish list for the XBone, and I’m not finding any. I’ve got Destiny and Sunset Overdrive, and the thing I want most is the new version of Crackdown, which isn’t due until winter 2015.

It’s weird feeling this way given that we’re just about exactly 12 months after release now.

5699

I just want to point out again that both Microsoft and Sony are in the exact same position Nintendo was in a year after the Wii U’s launch, and while Nintendo got slammed for it, no one is giving the competition any flak whatsoever for it.

The only difference is that Microsoft and Sony have third-party games announced for their platforms, which I guess is somehow supposed to make current owners feel better about the nothing they have to play right now.

5700

I have the opposite problem on both platforms right now. Too much stuff to play already. I’m still making my way through Forza 2 and loving it. Still playing Destiny with friends. Making my way through Wolfenstein. Playing Halo:CE and sometimes dabbling in Halo 2 Anniversary and Halo 3 from the Master Chief collection. From EA access I still dabble in Battlefield 4 multiplayer with a friend sometimes. I still have to fire up Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare sometime from EA Access. Currently I’m also playing the 6 hours access of Dragon Age Inquisition. I just finished The Last of Us Remastered finally after a couple of months of playing through that and the Left Behind expansion that it came with. And I still have to try out most of the PS+ games that I haven’t got around to yet, before my PS+ subscription runs out in January. Just way too much stuff.

I’d love to get to Sunset Overdrive soon if I can find the time. I’d love to try out the new Call of Duty campaign too, since it might be the first one since Modern Warfare that I can actually enjoy and make my way through, if what I’ve been hearing is true. Ugh. Too many games, too little time.

5701

If I have TV snapped, is there a quick way to change its volume instead of digging into settings to change the snap vs. main volume difference?

5702

I haven’t bought into the PS4 yet, though I’m expecting I probably will eventually. When I wanted to play Destiny, I almost went PS4, but all the announced exclusive games that interested me were XBox.

Burned out on Destiny a while back, though I played quite a bit beyond the game end.

I’m done with Sunset Overdrive, though I wish I wasn’t. I’ve done all the missions, but almost none of the challenges, because I don’t like the timed nature of the challenges. They say they’re doing DLC for it, which I hope includes missions.

Wolfenstein I plan on playing on PC, since it’s a shooter. Ditto Plants vs. Zombies.

5703

I’m only going to buy a platform for meaningful exclusives, which means not offering the same games on last-gen platforms, PC, or Vita, and neither Microsoft nor Sony have demonstrated much interest in ensuring such games exist.

Sony is in a particularly rough situation here, as unlike Microsoft and Nintendo, they have to support three platforms, which means we get Sony ecosystem exclusives instead of PS4 exclusives. (The alternative is alienating their domestic market, where the PS3 outsells the PS4 on a weekly basis, and the Vita is the second-best-selling dedicated games platform.)

Microsoft’s got a handful of exclusives out now or announced, but as interested as I am in games like Sunset Overdrive, Crackdown 3, and Phantom Dust…that’s a total of three games, and the Xbone’s track record for retaining exclusives is pretty poor so far.

I have too many Wii U games to play right now, and I don’t even own things like Mario Kart 8 yet, so there’s no problem there.

5704

The game I’ve wanted the most for this generation is Fantasia: Music Evolved, but I’m not going to trade in my 360 until RB3/Beatles are ported and work with my existing instruments.

5705

Sadly that will probably never happen. The market just doesn’t seem to be there for plastic instrument games anymore. I wish it was still there, bit Activision milked it dead and wrung everyone’s enthusiasm out of it.

5706

The problem is they lacked vision. They treated it like a franchise, releasing sequels every year, rather than a service. That’s what bummed people out.

Rock Band (the base game) should be completely free, cross-platform, and come with a bunch of public domain songs. Then they sell plastic instruments, and allow other people to sell their own instruments too, creating a market for quality controllers. And then they license music and sell it to generate ongoing revenue.

There should never be a “Rock Band 2”. It’s a free to play game, with microtransactions for the content. Of course you enhance the base game over time, but you release those core gameplay enhancements completely free.

I’ve always thought they should support real instruments, too. Teach people to play for real. But beyond the keyboards and guitar, that could be difficult.

5707

Actually doesn’t Ubisoft have a version that was supposed to do just that? Teach people how to play real guitar? It was called Rocksmith I think? I remember it from the same E3 conference where they announced Watch Dogs, I believe.

5708

Yes, but they marketed it as a education tool rather than a game. My proposal is basically Rock Band as a service (RBAAS!), the teaching guitar stuff is just extra.