I've never had one but I just saw on the local listserv that a house down the street from me is having a big moving sale on Saturday and one of the items for sale is an Xbox. I'm thinking if I can get one cheap maybe I'll do it just for fun but the thing is I don't really know what is cheap for Xbox or if there are many generations of them or if you need to buy separate cartridges or what. Can someone that has done some xbox-ing give me a review?
Who here has an Xbox?
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I have two Xbox One's and I have had a couple of Xbox 360's. They are good machines that offer more than just video game entertainment. We use ours to play Blu-ray DVD's, watch netflix, stream music, etc. The Xbox One can also act as a DVR if you run your TV through the Xbox. It's not clear if the Xbox your looking at is a 360 or a One? If it's a 360 you can still find those discs at a local game stop, target, or walmart. THE is right that the One discs are backwards compatible however many of the 360 games are forward compatible to the One.
If you do any of the online stuff you'll need a Xbox Live acct. If you just use it for games and you don't play on line then you don't need the Live acct.
If you do any of the online stuff you'll need a Xbox Live acct. If you just use it for games and you don't play on line then you don't need the Live acct.
It doesn't say if it's an Xbox One or 360 or what. I don't know much about them. If I can get a good deal then maybe I'll buy it but if I'm gonna pay what I'd pay at the store then I'd just buy one at the store if I wanted one, and I don't want one badly enough to buy it at the store.
The XBOX One is wifi compatible out of the box. An XBOX360 is a wired connection unless you purchase a special wifi connection device. If you are going to wire it to a router than a 360 is a good streaming device. The XBOX One is just better at everything. I have 2 360's and an XBOX One.
For the last 2.5 years I had a wireless router and a thumb thing in the back of my computer. It seemed slow so I looked into it and in my reading I saw that wired is faster than wireless. So I wired it. On the website where you can test your speed I was getting 10-15 mbps wireless. Now that I've wired it I get 60-70. (The wire running across my LR that won't stay up when I tape it to the ceiling is a separate problem to deal with.)
So that said, I'd prefer wiring it to my router than doing wireless. But I don't understand why I have to involve the router at all. Can't I just plug my Xbox (a) into electricity and (b) into the back of my TV and then just play?
I have a Roku so I don't need a streaming device. I don't need a DVR which someone said it could serve as. Etc. I was just thinking of getting it so I could easily play some cool games on my TV without paying a lot of money.
You can use your xbox without having it connected to the net. It will save all your games and etc. You just won't have online play and game updates. Not a huge deal. it works without a connection. I was just giving you the scoop for the full experience. I play my xbox all the time off the network.
