Sep 01
Nothing could make me angrier than this. For those of you who don’t know, the “installation” of Xbox360 backwards compatibility is very, very simple. In fact, if you have a hard drive (included in the $400US package) it is a one step process. The “installation” is as follows:
Step 1: Turn on your Xbox360
THAT’S IT.
Now, tell me…is that worth $30? [From Kotaku]
that’s cold blooded.
“There’s a sucker born every minute…and two to take ‘em.”
But maybe it’s for people with a Xbox 360, but that doesn’t have Xbox Live…
Because I think that you need to be online to download the backwards compatible stuff. Maybe they come to your house with eveything on a CD and install it… in that case, it’s not that bad…. I guess.
Pinks – Microsoft sends out CDs with the backwards compatibility software to those who request it (I think they’re free, too).
Pinks & Akaji – Akaji is correct, Pinks, and there’s no CD to “install” anything; it’s preloaded on the hard drive. It’s an emulator. Plus, hooking up your Xbox360 to XboxLive is free, as is the emulation software.
One more thing, Pinks – it’s not worth $30 even if having them “instal” it made sense. (Which it doesn’t, just to hammer that home)
This reminds me of Geek Squad from Best Buy, except Geek Squad is a little bit less of a ripoff. But still a pretty big one.
Geek Squad is 10x more of a ripoff. At least this Circuit City installation can’t erase 6 years’ worth of data from your computer’s hard drive like what happened to some dude when he hired them to back his hard drive up (apparently the tech caused a hard drive failure by removing the drive somehow… probably had the computer on/plugged in when he disconnected the HDD… or tossed it around without giving a crap for any possible data corruption).
Actually, it’s probably not true anymore for the more recent Xbox 360s, with my cousin’s Xbox 360 to get some Xbox games to work (and I’m talking games from the first gen Xbox) we had to download an update by internet when we put an Xbox game in (that’s when it attempts to download the update). And they’ve provided updates on an irregular basis.
But still, that’s a pretty simple way to install the updates anywa is by simply sticking an old Xbox game in. The only thing that’s needed is a broadband internet connection.
Hang on, i’m sure thats classed as fraud, i mean they wont actually install anything. Call 911, oh wait, that wont work.
You do need Live and an interwebs connection in order to download the updates that allow you to play (some) Xbox games on the 360, and so these people would be providing a service for which they are allowed to charge. Problem is, that service would be “take the console out back, install the latest BC update from a disc.” That isn’t worth $3, and your 360 would then need to be taken in again if they updated the list. On top of that, the BC list hardly covers enough games to fill a shelf. Their claim is deliberately misleading, as you can tell from the text:
“Every game* will be playable in HD.
*(Not every game)”
Actually you can make your own disk off their website. I went on to their website, downloaded the program and burned a cd. I then but it it the 360. A screen came up asking me if i wanted to do the udate and i clicked yes. Now i can play all my xbox games. Only halo1 and halo2 come preloaded on the xbox 260 for use.
Again, though, you need a home internet connection and a CD writer. It’s still a ripoff, but this service is for people who can’t reach the tubes for themselves and don’t know enough about the 360 to just ask a friend to burn a disc for them.