Originally posted by TalionI may buy a chipped 360 to play copies but won\'t be forking out stupid prices for games.
I have a mate who is trying to convince me to chip mine, but I really don\'t think it is worth it.
For one, there are very few games worth getting yet, so just be selective. £30something quid off amazon for a game like Oblivion isn\'t exactly a lot of cash per hour of gameplay you\'ll get anyway. I don\'t need to be collecting cack games just because I can.
More importantly, it is so unreliable. He has to leave his system for 10 minutes to an hour between swapping games before they work, it occasionally causes him problems online, and whenever Microsoft update their live service he is left screwed until someone works a way around it.
It\'s just a huge faff really. It seems to be a great way to screw up your rather expensive console. The only bonus is playing MAME or other emulators through the 360, but I can do that with my laptop anyway, and link up my console pad to that if I want to use it too.