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I am Rob Endean, I work in a games retail shop.
I have been brought up on Pesonal Computers but in the last 15 years I have also been an avid video gamer.
I own a PS3, a 360, a DSi, a Wii, a PS2, a Gamecube, an X Box and a gaming PC.

I am very hard to impress when it comes to anything, also I dont eat meat :<

Genres I liek:

Online Multiplayer Games
RPGs
FPSs

I dont like:
Sports Games
Army Men anything
"Ricky Games"

I generally like Fantasy and Sci Fi as a setting.

My favorite games in no particular order are:

Team Fortress 2 (Spy, Scout and Engi)

Dawn of War
Metal Gear Solid 4
Little Big Planet
Metal Gear Solid 3
Half Life 1 + 2 + eps
Portal
WoWCrack
Halo 2 + 3
Counter Strike
Animal Crossing
Titan Quest
DEFCON
Baldurs Gate
Super Smash Brothers Melee/Brawl
Paper Mario and The Thousand Year Door
Super Metroid
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Color Version)
Diablo 2
Fallout 2 + 3
Starcraft
Max Payne 2
Neverwinter Nights 2
Warcraft 3
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy 4 6 7 8
Um Jammer Lammy
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Elder Scrolls IV: OBLIVION
Deus Ex
Left 4 Dead
Dead Space
Gear of War
Castle Crashers
Street Fighter 4

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In terms of other things in my life I like rock nonsense (NiN, APC, Tool, Mars Volta, System, etc etc) and post-rock twitchy music for jerks (Radiohead, Mr Scruff, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Gomez, UNKLE etc etc) and occasionally I love a bit of Metal or Technical Dance stuff like Red Snapper, Leftfield and even Aphex Twin.

I like tabletop roleplaying games, I prefer to run with basic 4th ed ruleset of D+D.

I like politics, quantum physics and psychology, if you get me drunk I am likely to gibber on about one of those 3 things, just tell me to shut up tbh.

I love reading, my favorite book is The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks.

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A thought on 360 sales
Tremulant \| 5:19 AM on 01.25.2009	7 comments

So I was thinking about 360 sales the other day how the margin between 360 and PS3 sales over the Xmas and New Year holiday was quite large. However, working in retail I see a lot of faulty 360s especially around this time of the year when a lot of people get new games/360s at Xmas and boot up thier 360s to find the dreaded RROD (or any of the other myriad of issues)

When issuing a replacement 360 the sale can, and does, go through on a completly seperate transaction to the return, how much a percentage of the sales figures over Xmas of "New" 360s are actually just replacements?

Microsoft have sacked the Flight sim team and have started to make heavy staffing cuts, is this JUST the so called Credit Crunch?

Working 5 days a week in games retail it beggers belief the amount of faulty 360s you see, sometimes just in one day.

Jus' thinking..

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Rob

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4 comments | showing # 1 to 4

Velt

sucks. Is the problem of the 360, they have the games, the multiplayer system and the various systems with pricing.
But the hardware sucks.

Pyroph

Yep. Just had to go and buy one yesterday. My disk drive broke, and I'm not going to pay $100 when I can get a new one. $200 for a new system with the Jasper chip, a wireless controller (puts the gap to $50, and better performance beats paying for the repair. (I had 1 RROD previously, waaaay back before the term was coined but they replaced my console. Looking at it I had a Zephyr model, and it was loud and old). I now have a Jasper unit and it is incredibly better, it is tremendously less hot and when it plays a game directly from a disk it is much MUCH quieter. This route was better to go in my case, as I was out of warranty and I didn't want to have to risk getting an old chip back or having another problem arise to pay for. It does suck.

Drach

This is a good point when you consider that they've sold more. PS3's would sell more if they broke more often. Maybe that's why they don't sell as many as MS? They're systems don't fail as often forcing a replacement buy... Good point indeed.
And honestly the online service isn't all that great.. You have to pay for it whereas the PlayStation has free online gaming. Why would you keep paying for something that should be free? I can compare, I have both systems.. and MS needs to stop charging for that service... I already pay the cable company to hook up to the internet, I shouldn't be paying more fees for the same fucking service. I own both systems, and I seriously don't see the Live service being worth what they charge for it.

Shalashaska161

So far I have two friends who bought 2 360's, due to warranty expiring and then the system dying, and another friend who has bought 3. That is 4 360's right there bought as replacements. Though its hard to deny the fact that there are more 360's out there in the US.

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