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My Roommate or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 360
superhobo | 2:24 PM on 09.21.2009 5 comments


As some of you may have read in a previous blog, my 360 died last month and I haven't been able to get it fixed for cheap. Therefore I have been devoid of 360 gaming for the last few weeks. I was angry, confused, hurt. I turned back to my old friend, the PS2 and relived some old memories (and some new ones).



Yesterday however, something magical happened. My college roommate brought his Xbox down with him to our new place and set it up in the living room. Having connected it to the net I proceeded to download my profile. Magic, my avatar and gamescore were saved. But that's not all: I remembered from various podcasts that I could redownload all of my purchased XBLA games. Bingo, twenty minutes later I had all of my old games on the system. Nice.

So now instead of being consoleless and gameless, I now have a console on which I can play all my downloaded games happily (until my roommate moves away). Hurray for Microsofts download system. Now, if I bring down my old Hard Drive I can even get my old save files back. Better than nothing.

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VashTS's Destructoid Blog
This is an awesome feature of the xbox360 and other consoles should take note. Upgrading my HD to 120gb was soo easy, and headache free.

I heard PS3 has a wierd system with redownloading games and content. Supposedly it's a pain in the ass.
Zoel's Destructoid Blog
It easy as pirating.
Nic128's Destructoid Blog
@VashTS
It's pretty much the same with redownloading. Once you buy something, you can download it from your psn account many times if you like.
pedrovay2003's Destructoid Blog
@VashTS

Actually, with the PS3, you just log into your account on a different console and get your stuff. No questions asked.

I actually remember the 360's downloadable service being one of the biggest problems with the console. If you download a game, and then try to play it on a friend's console or a replacement console, you must be online to play it, otherwise it reverts to its trial version. My friend's console died, he kept the same hard drive, and this still happened to him, because a downloaded game registers itself to not only the hard drive, but to the individual console itself. A real kick in the nuts considering how often the 360s have problems. But this DRM issue may have been fixed -- I haven't had a 360 in a while.

Regardless, I'm glad this was a hassle-free process for you, superhobo. :D
brainderailment's Destructoid Blog
From what I remember you can't play xbla games on a different console that you purchased them from unless you are online or you had microsoft transfer your account to that specific console.


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