Product Description

Introducing Xbox 360? Elite, the premier Xbox 360 console package that includes a massive 120GB hard drive, a HDMI port, and HDMI cable, all wrapped up with a premium black finish. Xbox 360 Elite also includes a black wireless controller and black Xbox LIVE® headset. Xbox 360 Elite has enough space for a whole library of Xbox LIVE Arcade games as well as downloadable high-definition TV shows, movies, music, and all the other content available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Features •Xbox 360 Elite console: The console is equipped with an HDMI port, HDMI cable, a black wireless controller and black Xbox LIVE® headset. It also comes with three powerful core processors, 16:9 cinematic aspect ratio, anti-aliasing for smooth textures, full surround sound, and DVD playback with upscaling capabilities right outof the box. •Xbox 360 120GB hard drive: The huge 120GB detachable hard drive allows gamers to save their games and store television shows, movies, music, pictures, trailers, extra game levels, demos and other content available from Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Also sold separatley. •Xbox 360 Wireless Controller (black): The sleek black finish of this high-performance wireless controller matches the style of the Elite Console. It has a range of up to 30 feet and a battery life of 30 hours on two AA batteries. Also sold separatley. •Xbox 360 headset (black): Now available in black, the headset lets you strategize while playing together online or trade taunts with your opponents. You can also send voice messages to friends on Xbox LIVE. •Xbox 360 HDMI cable: New to Xbox 360, HDMI lets you get HD video (up to 1080p) and multichannel surround sound, all from one cable. •Xbox LIVE Silver Membership: With this, gamers can chat with friends online, collect achievements and gamerscores, send and receive voice and text messages, and access Xbox LIVE Marketplace content such as game demos, HD movies and TV, as

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2007-08-24
• Platform: Xbox 360

Customer Reviews

Good games, bad Console
It's strange. My 360 Premium I got in Jan 06 still works fine and it's been played to death. But my Elite which I got in Dec last year broke in under 6 months and it wasn't used half as much.
It seems Microsoft are still using cheap parts and poor manufacturing practices with their console. It's a real shame. If these were any other type of electrical product they would've been re-called ages ago. Oh well. Things would'nt be so bad if Microsoft support wasn't so useless. 3 weeks for a refurb?
Well, enjoy the great games whilst you can.

Reliability a very serious issue.
I loved (note the past tense) the X-box 360. I bought my first a month after it came out and when the dreaded ring of death appeared I bought the Elite, giving my brother the repaired one. I bought the Elite thinking that it would be more reliable (I'd heard that it contained new internals to prevent the problems of the Premium and Core models)....well it was all a big fat myth. Last night my Elite bit the dust less than 6 months after purchasing the thing. It matters little that Microsoft are going to repair the thing, my faith in the brand is fatally damaged. I had PlaySations 1 & 2 and they are both working fine. I just want my money back so that I can forget about the 360 and get a PS3 - the Sony brand has never let me down; Microsoft, that's all you've done. Wonderful exclusive games (Bioshock, Gears of War), useless hardware.

An excellent media streamer
Being a Mac user I was a bit hesitant about the 360, it being a product from the evil empire. All in all though I have to say that it's a nice piece of kit, not only as a games console but (quite unexpectedly) as a media streamer.

I have a fair amount of music and a few videos stored in my iTunes library and, via a bit of third party software called Connect360, the Xbox forms a valuable bridgehead between my Mac (upstairs) and my TV (lounge).

The only downside over an Apple TV, say, is that the 360 cannot stream copy-protected content purchased via iTunes (iTunes Plus purchases are fine though). Otherwise this added feature is really excellent and makes purchasing a 360 additionally worthwhile.

Oh yes, and the games are very good too. That always helps.