Are you going to a midnight opening or just waiting until the stores open at 09:00 ???

 

I am waiting until they come down to £200 after christmas

 

I'm gonna wait till early next year too, let the price come down. Not that I'm a tight ar$e! just have to spend wisely now I'm gonna be a daddy.

Proby

 

Lunchtime on the 2nd.

 

I think you're hoping there. No price drops are likely until next xmas (when the ps3 is rumoured to be slated for release in Europe). It's already so cheap at the initial release prices that it's not going to come down for some time.

p.s. Mines confirmed for the 2nd of Dec. Only 2 weeks to go

 

I'm sulking, pre-order 19th August and told yesterday I won't be getting one!

Think I invest my dosh elsewhere.

 

I am tempted to buy one, but not sure yet. I can get hold of one through work but the XBOX I have now I hardly play on.

Either xbox 360 or build a new shuttle PC!

 

Spoke to Toys R Us today and mine will be ready for collection on the 2nd Dec 9am .. Day booked off work ready for some PGR3 action.....

 

Ive had most consoles and I have never known them not drop in price with in a few months. I would of thought that Microsoft are going to want to get the maximum amount of these possible in the most amount of homes before PS3 comes out. I am sure the basic will be under £200 and the hardrive pack will be under £250 at the bare minimum. It will also let them iron out any small faults that there are in the launch consoles.

Does anyone know the dimensions of the power supply? It looks HUGE!

 

A couple of days before release date for mine all being well!!
Anyone any ideas when the retailers will be getting their first allocations of stock?

 

**** knows I pre-ordered mine from the local Game about a week after they started taking pre-orders - paid my deposit and was told I'd definitely get one on launch day. Found out during the week that I'm 31st on the pre-order list so my hopes of getting one are fading rapidly

Booked the afternoon off to so I could collect it at lunchtime and do some serious gaming for the rest of the weekend! Given the rumours flying about stock levels for launch, there's probably **** all chance I'll see mine on launch day

 

when is it out i been told some pre orders wont turn up till jan 24 th

kids xmas gifts "pre order TOSH AS USUAL "

 

I ordered via Amazon on day 1 when the prices came out. They still don't know if I'm getting it on the 2nd.

spoke to my local Asda and they are getting some in to sell at midnight and they haven't taken any pr-orders.

 

I know someone who got theirs this morning. They do work as a tester/reviewer though...

 

Just called Game regarding my pre-order.

Was told as long as I placed an order with £20 deposit, I was guaranteed my 360

One happy bunny - roll on December 2nd

Dan

 

I was told the same at Game - just need to convince the wife I need a Hi Def TV...

Played on one yesterday in Game and it was pretty awesome - can't wait!

 

you don't need a TV you need this just changed my projector for that HD one ....... oh yes 6' screen in 720p

 

Didn't think projectors were good for games though? I've heard many horror stories about burnt in images etc (worse than plasmas).

I'm going to have to make do with my low-def 42" plasma for the moment. May go hidef next year though...

 

I went into my local blockbuster video shop last night looking for a film to rent and tomy surprise they had an xbox 360 kiosk. Nobody was even looking at it so I had a play on Call of Duty 2 and Kameo.

First impressions were not great if you are used to playing games on a pc. The graphics looked no more impressive than my PC which uses an ancient Geforce 4 card. There was also some slowdown in Call of Duty 2 and there was noticeable jagged edges. I hope this is just because it was a test disc and the full release game will look better. I don't think it helped that you were stood so close to the screen, when you stood around 10 feet back it looked much more impressive.

The new dashboard and controllers are 10x better than the old xbox though.

It's a shame there was no playable demo of project gotham 3, that is about the only game that interests me from the launch titles. There was a video which didn't particularly show much, but the Gotham TV part of the game looks really impressive!

Still undecided lol...

 

im getting mine from game on the 2nd dec.cant wait.
just installed my hi-def projector and 92in 16,9 screen.
the wife wont see me for days!.......lol

 

Pre-ordered with Play at the end of may when it was quoted at £400, if i don't get one i'm gonna be pretty peeved.

 

i too played COD2 at a tech show a few weeks back on a Hi-Def TV. I also play most games on the PC and to me it looked pretty bad. There was no sign of AA or AF. COD2 on my PC looks so much better than the Xbox2 version i played....im gonna stick with my PC until a few more games come out and maybe the price drops a little.....

 

Iain I've been using my NEC projector fo rth elast two years with my Xbox and no burnt image yet. I don't leave it on pause for a long time or do anything that will burn it on purpose.

 

Interesting. Might look into that when I replace my old panny then

 

I would have thought my tail lights in PGR2 would have burnt in by now

 

Will prob get mine maybe a week before they are released :-)
Its good to "know" the right people ;-)
Cant wait !

 

hah you're all going to be disappointed if you're expecting mid-high end PC graphics

 

I fail to see how a minimum display of 1280x720 (thats the xbox360's lowest res) via Hi-Def will not impress me. From the video I have seen (in hidef), it looks pretty impressive to me.

The proof will be in the pudding I suspect though.

Regards,
Shaun.

 

Yep and only 10 days to wait to eat that pudding !!!!

 

Well you won't see that 'improvement' unless you have a HDTV for a start. And most mid-high end PC's run games with anti aliasing and filtering on them and at higher resolutions, which transforms the detail levels. But if you're not use to that on a PC then yes you probably will be impressed