Gaming consoles

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• • Danmairen
    December 11, 2009
    427 posts
  • In an effort to waste my time more efficiently I am thinking about buying either a Wii, 360 or a PS3. Does anyone know which one is better value for money, easily chipped and has a good selection of (copied) games?

• • kickkick
    December 11, 2009
    51 posts
  • the general consensus amongst my game addicted friends is that the 360 is best... but they would never ever have them chipped for fear of being banned from xbox live where they play COD and MW2 all day. i don't think xbox live is available in china, is it? i suppose that makes my advice irrelevant. thanks for listening.

• • timkunming
    December 11, 2009
    85 posts
  • Definitely the Xbox 360 for the selection of copied games. They're everywhere. You can't play online with them but when you're paying so little, who cares?

    I've been trying to get rid of my 360 before I move back to the states for awhile so let me know if you're interested. I won't have any games for you but I can tell you some great places where they're sold. Some never get the new games and some get them the day after release in Japan/US/Europe. Pretty cool!

• • seahorse62
    December 11, 2009
    87 posts
  • We have both a Wii and Xbox 360 that were chipped here. You can't play the 360 on the internet after you have the chip put in but my kids don't care. There is a huge selection of cheap games for both. We got them on computer street.

• • Danmairen
    December 11, 2009
    427 posts
  • Thx for the info. Any idea of current prices?

• • lummerlaoshi
    December 12, 2009
    95 posts
  • I bought the Wii console (chipped), three more controllers and three nunchuks, two dance mats, two gun add ons, the drum and guitar add-on plus 10 games for 2600 rmb at the computer street during October break this year. I was told by local friends I paid too much. Games cost 4 rmb a game for the wii.

• • Bvlgari-AqvaMarine
    December 12, 2009
    5 posts
  • How To Completely Waste Your Time & Life more effectively ? Hmmmm... The XBox 360 along the games Fable & Fable 2 would do the trick I guess ! I would recommend the XBox 360 along with the game Fable to anyone from Scandinavian countries like Denmark or Sweden !

• • MasterBlaster
    December 16, 2009
    4 posts
  • Anybody happen to know the going rates for a 360 that plays pirated games?

• • kickkick
    December 16, 2009
    51 posts
  • 1800-1900 ish apprently... that's for the "arcade" package with no hard drive.

• • Danmairen
    April 13, 2010
    427 posts
  • Finally got around to buying one. Went for the 360 and bought it near 1-2-1 street. The vendors all quoted 1650-1700 as the starting price for the arcade version with only one controller. I got it for 1550 and a feeling that unless I had some guanxi or a friend in the market it would be hard to go below 1500. Online you can get them for 13-1400 but since I read that 360s have a fairly high hardware bricking rate I figured it would be better to have the seller nearby.

    The excellently reviewed official steering wheel was priced at 7-800 kuai so I will save that one for next month. I bought 10 games at 4 kuai a piece as well and sadly only 3 turned out to be in English so I guess there is one more reason to intensify the hanzi-studies.

• • lummerlaoshi
    April 13, 2010
    95 posts
  • Have a look at the outside jacket of the game before you buy it. You'll have a better chance of getting English games if everything on the cover is in English and a much better chance if the game screen captures are in English. Good thing I've studied Chinese and Japanese or else I wouldn't be able to play many of my Wii games!

• • JonathanMiller
    June 16, 2010
    75 posts
  • Hello All -

    I want to purchase an Xbox or PS3.

    My main reasons for purchasing one if the Xbox Live (or what ever the PS3 equavilent is) and NetFlix movie downlaods.

    I would appreciate if anyone who is familiar with this would contact me.

    thanx

    Jonathan

• • Cromson
    June 18, 2010
    29 posts
  • Playing online via XBOXLive is possible, if you have an mod-chip that you can disable. All the newer chips have this option!

• • JonathanMiller
    December 5, 2011
    75 posts
  • All -

    Xbox 360 just released its new dashboard!

    I am wondering if it is possible to update a modified Xbox to the new dashboard and how.

    BTW - I am an Xbox newbie and could use some help someone is willing to come by and assist it would be very much appreciated.

    Jonathan
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