An Awesome Gift OR My Xbox Broke Part II
After being gone for awhile (I’m sure you noticed) I have returned. I went to my Midwestern roots and got hitched to a hot chick. Why should you care? Well I don’t expect you to, but it plays a significant part of the following tale. If you’ve never gotten married, then you won’t know how boring most wedding gifts are. It’s really hard to get excited over opening a blender or the fifteenth wooden spoon. That’s why when my friend Brian said, “You’re going to like this” as he handed me the gift from him and several other of my friends I was more than a little doubtful. Upon opening the present, I realized he was right. It was a PS3. Now, this story isn’t about how lucky I am to have awesome friends. There is a point to it.
Since I was flying back home I mailed the PS3 to me. I figured in the meantime I’d catch up on some CoD4 or Rock Band on my good old 360 to make the wait less painful. I’d taken my 360 hard drive with me along with my laptop (you never know when you’re going to need a saved file or porn) so I had to put the hard drive back in. Unfortunately, an error screen came up and I got a little red light in the bottom right corner. Having been through a red light disaster before, I knew that this wasn’t good. After a quick call to Microsoft’s tech support they concluded that my hard drive was dead. I know that it was my travels that must have killed the thing, but I treated it with kid gloves. In fact, I was more careful with it than I was my laptop. The only good thing is that the drive was still under warranty so they said they’d send me a new one once I sent them the busted one.
So now I have a PS3 and I’m fairly satisfied that I won’t have any kind of problems with the hardware or the software. In fact, I severely doubt that I will. Still there aren’t that many games I’m excited about that are exclusives and for the titles that aren’t exclusive, I still like to play with my friends who are on Live and don’t have a PS3. Microsoft has done a really good job of giving me enough reasons not to completely abandon their machine even though I’ve had two major problems with it. Hell, even without the flaws playing the PS3 has convinced me that there are enough positives about both systems to warrant owning both if you can somehow manage it.
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