Unless you’ve been living in a Buddhist Temple in the mountains of Tibet for the past few months you will be well aware that the Xbox 360 has been launched for sometime. Although there has been a massive amount of coverage and speculation in the technology press regarding the Xbox360 – quite a lot of it on TrustedReviews in fact – the actual general marketing has been slightly subdued. OK, so you may have seen the odd advert on TV over the past couple of weeks, but there hasn’t been what I’d called a major marketing push. Perhaps Microsoft is waiting for Christmas to spend the marketing Dollars, or perhaps the big MS knows that pretty much every Xbox360 is going to sell over the christmas period 2008.
xbox 360 have been hit with minor drawbacks due to the hardware system. Due to this fault people have been experiencing a thing called three red lights or red rings. all you have to do,(if you experience this problem) phone up microsoft, and they would send a courier to your door and pick it up. free of charge. then they would send you back a brand new xbox360 system. for free !!
also there has been this ongoing battle between xbox and playstation.
Of course when the original Xbox appeared, the PlayStation 2 already had a very strong hold on the market, and if there’s one thing that I’ve realised about PlayStation users, it’s that they’re brand loyal to the point of fanaticism – much like many Nintendo fans. This situation made it difficult for the Xbox, despite offering superior hardware specifications – OK so it was a stripped down PC, but that doesn’t change the fact that it had better graphics and audio than any of the competing products. Of course there were many gamers like myself who wanted to own a PlayStation2, Xbox and even a GameCube, but most casual gamers tend to have a single console, and many of them already owned a PS2.
