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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xath" data-source="post: 4149356" data-attributes="member: 17040">Lots of things!  I just got a 360 a few weeks ago and I love it.  I'm not really one for console games, but Rock Band has me totally ensconsed (and the 360 platform for RockBand is the best one as far as updates are concerned).  We also got Assassin's Creed (great!), Mass Effect, Call of Duty 4, and a couple of others I can't remember.  Even if you don't want to spend alot of money on games, the Xbox360 marketplace makes it super easy to do all sorts of things through your tv.  I've linked my 360 to my PC through my wireless router so now I can access my music and videos and play them on my TV.  This means that I can watch alot of things that I burned in college that my DVD player wouldn't support.  Well, you've probably heard the red ring of death stories, but if you're getting a new 360, you're not going to have that problem.  If you're getting an older model, just make sure to keep it in a relatively cool open place, and don't play it for 30 hours straight.  I don't have an HDTV.  I have a 27" brick of a TV.  I have no complaints about the experience.  (In fact, my friend's 60" HDTV makes me car sick while playing CoD4).  If you don't have an HDTV, stay away from the PS3.  It's major selling point is the high quality graphics, which you won't experience on a regular box.  It functions as a BluRay player which is also fairly moot if you don't have an HDTV.  As for your PC, what do you do with it?  If you are a heavy PC platform gamer, I guess upgrading consistantly is a good idea, but my laptop is 3 years old and I have yet to run across a game that I can't successfully clock out on my system.  (...My PC is admittedly super-awesome, so I don't expect to need to upgrade it for several years yet).  One thing that you could look into (and what we're looking into in a bit) is getting a really nice, large computer monitor.  They generally have the same res or better as an HDTV, but they're less expensive because they don't have all of the other hook-ups.  My PC has a cable-in port (because it also functions as a DVR and Blu Ray), so I don't really need a TV to watch high quality TV.  Since my PC has all of the TV hook ups I could need, I can also plug my 360 straight into the PC.</blockquote>

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