Wii60 Owner
Well it's true, i'm now in the small community known as a "Wii60 owner". Its basically means I own both a Nintendo Wii and an XBox 360.
I got the Wii in January using xmas money from my dad. When I bought it, I bought it knowing full well my intentions of the machine would be. I didn't get it to play every game that I enjoyed playing previously on this new machine. I'm not going to play NCAA Football or Madden on it, nor a fighting game like SOul Calibur. I mainly bought it for it's emulator capabilities. And also how much it would kick ass in a FPS. I own a few VC games already (Ice Climber once again rules!) and Red Steel proves how much fun a FPS can be on the Wii. I plan to pick up Medal of Honor: Vangaurd soon, because I hear it's the best FPS for the Wii, and it has multi player capabilitis that are far greater then Red Steel's. Wii Sports is fun too, my fav game being Tennis and Bowling. For what I use it for, I get my enjoyment out of it.
I finally broke down and bought a 360 the other day. I noticed that John finally bought one, and Dain seems to enjoy his (and Jason in playing Dain's). In July, this year's NCAA Football will come out. I honestly don't see next year's version coming out for the regular XBox, but the 360 only. Since I still had a majority of my tax return left, I figured I might as well go ahead and buy it now. Plus with John finally getting his orders to Japan, it would be nice to do voice chat over the 360.
I wanted to get a 360 from Rent-A-Center, I did. I didn't have the full $400, so I figured i'd get it from them and just pay it off. They said if you pay it off in 90 days, it's just the regular price, no intrests. What they didn't tell me at first was that they wanted $800 for it. "Because we're a rental agency sir, thats why we have ot charge more then it's actually worth." Scratch that idea off. I thought about just waiting a while, and save up a bit.
Then I browsed eBay for a bit. Now i'm not someone who wants to buy an actual gaming machine over eBay. Cause what if it breaks in shipping or "breaks" in shipping? Or if it just doesn't even show up and gets "lost in shipping"? I noticed an Advanced Search button that i'd never seen before, and gave it a whirl. Hell, would you look at that you can now search by distance. So I threw in 250 miles and crossed my fingers. I found a guy in Pensacola who was selling his, and the auction had a bit to go. So I placed my bid down, and waited. I decided to just stay awake until the auction ended incase someone wanted to eSnipe me. By 7am I was still in the clear. 8am hit, and I had 17 minutes to go. With a minute left, someone was bidding. And bidding. 20 seconds to go, I just constantly hit the refresh button, getting ready to rebid if need be. 5 seconds to go, nothing yet. Now or never. Thankfully, it was never. I went to sleep to get a couple hours before work.
I was off from work the next day, on Monday, so I went to pick up the item. He let me pick it up in person for free. Nice guy. He's an Escambia County sherrif, and his wife made him sell his 360 so he would spend more time at home. Sucker ;) One man's misfortune is another gain I guess. For $345.02 (yeah, some fool raised it by a penny twice), I got the 360 Premium with all it's bells and whistles (20gb hard drive, wireless controller, head set, and all the cables), as well as an extra wireless controller and the plug-and-charge kit. Also in the set was the DVD remote, and 6 total games, 4 360 and 2 xbox (Fully Auto, Madden 06, NHL 2k6, Call of Duty 2 for the 360, Ultra Bust-A-Move and Black for the xbox).
Overall a great A+ deal. I'm rather satisfied with my 360 and already love it. It's hooked up to my network so it's sharing my MP3 harddrive. It's a great machine. Once I get a wireless adapter for it (retails $100, I know I can find it cheaper. It's a shame it has to be the actual Microsoft version), i'll hook it up to the big screen TV downstairs. But until then, it's sitting confy in my room.
PS. My Live Gamertag is Lord2TUM. I only have Silver right now (I can't play online games, just message and voice chat)
I got the Wii in January using xmas money from my dad. When I bought it, I bought it knowing full well my intentions of the machine would be. I didn't get it to play every game that I enjoyed playing previously on this new machine. I'm not going to play NCAA Football or Madden on it, nor a fighting game like SOul Calibur. I mainly bought it for it's emulator capabilities. And also how much it would kick ass in a FPS. I own a few VC games already (Ice Climber once again rules!) and Red Steel proves how much fun a FPS can be on the Wii. I plan to pick up Medal of Honor: Vangaurd soon, because I hear it's the best FPS for the Wii, and it has multi player capabilitis that are far greater then Red Steel's. Wii Sports is fun too, my fav game being Tennis and Bowling. For what I use it for, I get my enjoyment out of it.
I finally broke down and bought a 360 the other day. I noticed that John finally bought one, and Dain seems to enjoy his (and Jason in playing Dain's). In July, this year's NCAA Football will come out. I honestly don't see next year's version coming out for the regular XBox, but the 360 only. Since I still had a majority of my tax return left, I figured I might as well go ahead and buy it now. Plus with John finally getting his orders to Japan, it would be nice to do voice chat over the 360.
I wanted to get a 360 from Rent-A-Center, I did. I didn't have the full $400, so I figured i'd get it from them and just pay it off. They said if you pay it off in 90 days, it's just the regular price, no intrests. What they didn't tell me at first was that they wanted $800 for it. "Because we're a rental agency sir, thats why we have ot charge more then it's actually worth." Scratch that idea off. I thought about just waiting a while, and save up a bit.
Then I browsed eBay for a bit. Now i'm not someone who wants to buy an actual gaming machine over eBay. Cause what if it breaks in shipping or "breaks" in shipping? Or if it just doesn't even show up and gets "lost in shipping"? I noticed an Advanced Search button that i'd never seen before, and gave it a whirl. Hell, would you look at that you can now search by distance. So I threw in 250 miles and crossed my fingers. I found a guy in Pensacola who was selling his, and the auction had a bit to go. So I placed my bid down, and waited. I decided to just stay awake until the auction ended incase someone wanted to eSnipe me. By 7am I was still in the clear. 8am hit, and I had 17 minutes to go. With a minute left, someone was bidding. And bidding. 20 seconds to go, I just constantly hit the refresh button, getting ready to rebid if need be. 5 seconds to go, nothing yet. Now or never. Thankfully, it was never. I went to sleep to get a couple hours before work.
I was off from work the next day, on Monday, so I went to pick up the item. He let me pick it up in person for free. Nice guy. He's an Escambia County sherrif, and his wife made him sell his 360 so he would spend more time at home. Sucker ;) One man's misfortune is another gain I guess. For $345.02 (yeah, some fool raised it by a penny twice), I got the 360 Premium with all it's bells and whistles (20gb hard drive, wireless controller, head set, and all the cables), as well as an extra wireless controller and the plug-and-charge kit. Also in the set was the DVD remote, and 6 total games, 4 360 and 2 xbox (Fully Auto, Madden 06, NHL 2k6, Call of Duty 2 for the 360, Ultra Bust-A-Move and Black for the xbox).
Overall a great A+ deal. I'm rather satisfied with my 360 and already love it. It's hooked up to my network so it's sharing my MP3 harddrive. It's a great machine. Once I get a wireless adapter for it (retails $100, I know I can find it cheaper. It's a shame it has to be the actual Microsoft version), i'll hook it up to the big screen TV downstairs. But until then, it's sitting confy in my room.
PS. My Live Gamertag is Lord2TUM. I only have Silver right now (I can't play online games, just message and voice chat)