Tips on Buying a 360

[Schultz]

Until HD becomes the over the air standard, I wont buy an HD tv, the price is simply too much. Nor will i buy a new tv just to play a game.

And the announcement said that the elite is not a temp thing, though i think the black paint job might be.

It wont replace the premium their going to keep three models going.

I think ill just stick with the premium since I dont think ill be needing all fo the extra space.

If i can get any kind of resell on my original xbox then i might consider the elite. I still feel reluctant to drop 500 on just the consoel alone.

Well that is where you got it wrong. Right now you don't need it. But say 1 or 2 years down the road. You do get a HD tv and also you do start filling up your 20 gig harddrive.

Now you will either have to A.) Just upgrade harddrive. now you spent $580 on a system because you need it. Or more so say B.) You start watchin / download there stuff on Live which now requires a HDMI output port.. you gotta try to sell your old one and buy the new $480 .. maybe you get $200 outta your old one you just spent $680 on the whole thing. So any route it still cheaper to just fork over the 80 more for the larger harddrive. I mean hell just get 1 less game when you purchase it and you pretty much covered it.

So IMHO it really stupid now to not get the elite version because they pretty much fucked over every early adopter of an Xbox 360.