I have the opportunity to get a good deal on a used Xbox 360, but I wanted to see if it was even worth it..
I've read the FAQs and stickies..
As for games, there doesn't seem to be as many family-friendly games available.. Most of the titles I see are first person shooter style (all my kids are 12 and younger).. Plus, the 'modding' process seems to be much more complicated than on the Wii.. Now that we have our Wii softmodded, it is very simple to play a backup on a USB hard drive..
Everything else actually looks pretty good.. I like that you can play DVDs on it (BluRay?), and that it streams media from your PC.. We have a TVix now, and we have our PC hooked up to the tv via dvi/hdmi, but it would be more convienient to just stream media from the PCs hard drive than copy everything to the TVix.. Most of our video library is standard def XVid/DVix..
Plus with the new Windows Phones coming out, playing the same game on the phone and xbox seems like a cool option..
While this one device would replace two of my current units (DVD player, TVix), is it worth it if we don't game on it much? I guess my main sticking point is the difficulty in modding, and the games available..
Thanks
I've read the FAQs and stickies..
As for games, there doesn't seem to be as many family-friendly games available.. Most of the titles I see are first person shooter style (all my kids are 12 and younger).. Plus, the 'modding' process seems to be much more complicated than on the Wii.. Now that we have our Wii softmodded, it is very simple to play a backup on a USB hard drive..
Everything else actually looks pretty good.. I like that you can play DVDs on it (BluRay?), and that it streams media from your PC.. We have a TVix now, and we have our PC hooked up to the tv via dvi/hdmi, but it would be more convienient to just stream media from the PCs hard drive than copy everything to the TVix.. Most of our video library is standard def XVid/DVix..
Plus with the new Windows Phones coming out, playing the same game on the phone and xbox seems like a cool option..
While this one device would replace two of my current units (DVD player, TVix), is it worth it if we don't game on it much? I guess my main sticking point is the difficulty in modding, and the games available..
Thanks