Quick XBox360 question
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Quick XBox360 question
My brother-in-law has just landed a job overseas, so has offered me his Xbox360 for £60
It's never given him any bother (!) has an HDMI and less than 18 months old. I'm guessing warranty has expired, but for £60 who cares ?
Out of interest if it gets the dreaded RROIY* will MS repair it ? Will it let me create a new online account and give me a free trial to Xbox Live ? I'm not a big online gamer so don't want to pay a subscription if I can avoid it - but I would like access to XBLA simply to download the likes of Braid. Do I still have to pay a subscription simply to download the games ?
*Red Ring Of Iain Young
It's never given him any bother (!) has an HDMI and less than 18 months old. I'm guessing warranty has expired, but for £60 who cares ?
Out of interest if it gets the dreaded RROIY* will MS repair it ? Will it let me create a new online account and give me a free trial to Xbox Live ? I'm not a big online gamer so don't want to pay a subscription if I can avoid it - but I would like access to XBLA simply to download the likes of Braid. Do I still have to pay a subscription simply to download the games ?
*Red Ring Of Iain Young
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Yes, it should have 3 years warranty against the RROD.
Yes, you'll get a free Gold trial when you create a new account.
Yes, you can download from XBLA with a silver account.
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Yes, you'll get a free Gold trial when you create a new account.
Yes, you can download from XBLA with a silver account.
HTH
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Warrenty is 3yrs from date of purchase.
You can create a new account yes, as for the free trial not sure if it gives you one, but i may have a code somewhere with some of the games i've bought. You get a silver account for free which lets you download arcade stuff, the only difference is demos/videos etc are shown a week before on gold account holders than the silver.
You will need some points to buy braid. Cheapest place is currently tesco.
http://www.tesco.com/entertainment/product.aspx?R=844220&bci=4|Games
hmm, typed to slow :d
You can create a new account yes, as for the free trial not sure if it gives you one, but i may have a code somewhere with some of the games i've bought. You get a silver account for free which lets you download arcade stuff, the only difference is demos/videos etc are shown a week before on gold account holders than the silver.
You will need some points to buy braid. Cheapest place is currently tesco.
http://www.tesco.com/entertainment/product.aspx?R=844220&bci=4|Games
hmm, typed to slow :d
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Create a new account and select a Silver membership - then it'll give you 30 days Gold account.
Subs can be bought off ebay for around £23.
With a silver account though, you'll have to wait a week or two to be able to DL content that's new, If you're Gold you can get it straight away, but if you're a bit tight with a silver account you usually have to wait...
Subs can be bought off ebay for around £23.
With a silver account though, you'll have to wait a week or two to be able to DL content that's new, If you're Gold you can get it straight away, but if you're a bit tight with a silver account you usually have to wait...
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Agreed.
I thought it was only the Elites that possibly had the old chip but Arcade and Premiums with HDMI had the new one.
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If you don't want it I'll take it off his hands for £60! I could do with a spare one for the living room (mine's in the spare room with the pc).
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Eh??? Launch day consoles did not have any form of HDMI output, (I should know - I've had 12 of them). You could get a component cable for it (with optical output for the sound), but that's not quite the same thing ...
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My brother-in-law has just landed a job overseas, so has offered me his Xbox360 for £60
It's never given him any bother (!) has an HDMI and less than 18 months old. I'm guessing warranty has expired, but for £60 who cares ?
Out of interest if it gets the dreaded RROIY* will MS repair it ? Will it let me create a new online account and give me a free trial to Xbox Live ? I'm not a big online gamer so don't want to pay a subscription if I can avoid it - but I would like access to XBLA simply to download the likes of Braid. Do I still have to pay a subscription simply to download the games ?
*Red Ring Of Iain Young
It's never given him any bother (!) has an HDMI and less than 18 months old. I'm guessing warranty has expired, but for £60 who cares ?
Out of interest if it gets the dreaded RROIY* will MS repair it ? Will it let me create a new online account and give me a free trial to Xbox Live ? I'm not a big online gamer so don't want to pay a subscription if I can avoid it - but I would like access to XBLA simply to download the likes of Braid. Do I still have to pay a subscription simply to download the games ?
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If you create a new account, then you can access Live at silver level, free downloads of demos (braid) etc. if you want a sample of gold, just buy a game that offers a free months subscription
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Launch day Elite consoles came with HDMI as standard.
thats what i think he,s referring to
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