Bringing home the Xbox 360 Elite |
The Puyallup Fred Meyer had four Xbox 360 Elites come in and nine people camping them. Best Buy Puyallup opened at 10 am on Sunday. We drove by and saw a small group of seven people. We decided to check out Toys R’ Us and Costco. Lines at neither of those places. We went back to Best Buy and were #8 and #9 in line. The group in front of us said they were told there were only seven Elites in stock. We decided to wait.
They were wrong, more awaited. Moral of that story: don’t expect accuracy from the people in line ahead of you.
We were able to buy the Elite ($479 USD), an extra wireless controller ($69) 120GB hard drive ($189). We also purchased the extended two year warranty for $79.99. With the problems we’ve had there was no way we were walking out of there without an extended warranty. After tax this morning’s excursion totalled $881.24.
Here’s what the Xbox 360 Elite looks like unboxed:
1 - Xbox 360 Elite
2 - The familiar oversized Xbox 360 power supply brick
3 - AC power cord
4 - standard composite option, although you still would need to buy the yellow, red and white cord to plug between the TV and this adapter
5 - ethernet cable
6 - black Xbox 360 Elite controller with two AA Energizer batteries
7 - black style Xbox Live headset
8 - HD component cables
9 - HDMI cable
10 - instructions, one month free Xbox Live Gold
I shot video of the unboxing from two different angles and that will likely be tomorrow’s Hmmcast (#106).
Hooking up the Elite
Unlike the other two Xbox 360 we have, the Elite is going in our bedroom — it’s for my wife and I — and is being positioned on the counter above the PS3. Our TV has two HDMI inputs so that’s the connection we used out of the box.
I had to sign up for a new Xbox Live account, also our third one. Kind of a bummer that you can’t associate more than one Xbox Live account with Live (former .NET) account, so we used our business Live email address.
What was the first Xbox Live game I played and purchased?
Pinball FX. I’m hooked on the Agents table. Game on!
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why did u buy a 120 gb hard drive when u already get 1???
Comment by mark — February 6, 2008 @ 9:42 am PST
mark - easy, we own more than one Xbox 360
Comment by TDavid — February 6, 2008 @ 9:59 am PST
we got the whole lot plus free xbox live for a year for $200.00! Yours is a rip-off.
Comment by Jack — October 18, 2008 @ 6:15 am PST
Wow, I wish I could afford to have multiple 360’s in my house! I’m in a shared house with 4 other people and because EVERYBODY is a gamer we have a 360, PS3, Wii and some old skool retro consoles spread across just 2 TV’s (and only one of those is an HDTV). Seeing as i’m always the last one home from work I always miss out on gaming action until the weekend comes around, which sucks!
I think i’m going to have to invest in my own console or HDTV, i’ll have another look around the site to see if you have any comparitive articles for the best gaming TVs (you seem to know a lot about your kit!)
cheers, Matt
Comment by Matt — August 5, 2009 @ 11:22 am PST