My Wii broke, so things happen.
OK it's somewhere between the two. The HDMI cable isn't special, but you if you aren't running the HDMI through your stero and want stero sound, you need the MS HDMI cable because it has a special adapter to allow you to pipe optical or RCA sound to your receiver. The normal AV cable will not fit the unit with an HDMI cable plugged in.
Second, it's nice that BB marks the boxes, but in lots of stores the Xbox 360's are in the store room and you have to rely on 8.00 an hour help ...
Um pardon my naivety but it was labeled as an article and opinion pieces are included in that. It was a funny story. It is news in the sense that it discusses the spate of new games for the 360 that are clearly outshining most of the products on the other consoles at the moment. It was also well written. I've read enough other stuff here that basically boiled down to "PS3 Rocks MS Sucks" to think that it qualified. Am I wrong?
I thought it was funny too Dark. I was laughing at all the in-game references turned into an almost gamer-porn like love letter. Far better than the normal PS3 Sux Xbox is lAmE kind of tripe you read all the time.
Without the pre-paid shipping box, how did the guy even ship it? Where did he ship it to? What did he do, look up an address and go to UPS? I'm not saying he didn't, but what a moron if he did.
Someone want to show an actual statistic for 30% failure rate?
And for the record I own all three "next-gen" platforms. I like them all. My PS3 is a great DVD player. I almost never buy a game for it because they just haven't been as good as what I get on the Xb...