Xbox 360 Console 2009

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Includes two full games: Fable 2 and Halo 3
• Premium black finish
• 120GB hard drive
• Black finish wireless controller
• HDMI lets you get HD video (up to 1080p)

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0026GQ8WA
• Item Weight: 14.4 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 1, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

Product Description

Edition: Elite 120GB Spring 2009 bundle

From the Manufacturer

Get the best games of the year straight out of the box with the Xbox 360 Elite Game of the Year Bundle.* For a limited time only, Halo® 3 and Fable® II are included free with the Xbox 360 Elite Console. The Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system invites you into a limitless world of entertainment where the best games, high-definition (HD) movies and TV shows, and streaming videos from Netflix Inc.** come seamlessly together with your personal pictures and music library. Choose from the greatest entertainment lineup of games ever with the more than 400 games and counting. Connect to a large online library of feature films, television shows, music videos, and exclusive game demos and trailers. Share your gaming and entertaining experiences, anytime, with friends using Xbox LIVE. View photos with up to seven friends around the globe. Xbox 360 allows you to create a virtual social gathering using LIVE Party. Save your games, downloaded content, TV shows or music and so much more with the 120GB hard drive (included). Play DVDs, CDs, MP3s and more out of the box.   What's in the Box? Xbox 360 Elite Black Console Halo® 3 Fable® II 120GB Hard Drive Black Wireless Controller Black Wired Headset HDTV-ready component HD AV cable HDMI cable Ethernet cable   Halo® 3 and Fable® II (included in box) A HERO MUST RISE. BELIEVE. The epic saga continues with Halo 3, the third chapter in the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. Master Chief returns to finish the fight, bringing the epic conflict between the Covenant, the Flood, and the entire human race to a dramatic, pulse-pounding climax. Halo 3 represents the third chapter in the Halo trilogy—an international award-winning action series that grew into a global entertainment phenomenon, selling more than 14.5 million units worldwide, logging more than 650 million hours of multiplayer action on Xbox LIVE®, and spawning action figures, books, a graphic novel, apparel, an upcoming film adaptation, and more. Fable II is the highly-anticipated sequel to the wildly successful original that sold more than three million copies, offering even more choices and building on the core gameplay theme of Fable, where your every decision continually defines who you become. Set 500 years after the original, Fable II delivers an epic story and innovative real-time gameplay, including a massive amount of freedom and choice to explore a vast collection of dungeons, catacombs, and taverns in the world of Albion.           All-in-one entertainment center The New Xbox 360 Experience offers more entertainment than you can find from any other device connected to your TV. Whether you’re streaming movies from Netflix** or downloading HD movies and TV shows from Xbox LIVE Marketplace, your Xbox 360 connects you to a large online library of feature films, television shows, music videos, and exclusive game demos and trailers. Play DVD movies right out of the box, rip music to the Xbox 360 Hard Drive, connect your Digital Camera and share your digital pictures with friends, or connect your Xbox 360 to a Windows Media Center-based PC and stream TV, Music, Movies, and Pictures to your Xbox 360 console over your network!         Games Xbox 360 is home to the largest portfolio of high def games, highest-rated and most varied library of games for everyone to enjoy. Live out your rock star fantasies with “Rock Band 2” or fulfill your singing dreams with Lips, exclusively on Xbox 360. Xbox 360 is the only place to play all your favorite games such as Halo 3, GTA IV, Fable 2, Gears of War 2 and so many others. Or just enjoy some quick fun with games on Xbox LIVE Arcade such as “PAC-MAN Championship Edition” and “UNO”. Games look, feel, and sound realistic with 480p/720p/1080i HD output via HDMI or Component cable, 16 - 9 widescreen aspect ratio, anti-aliasing, and multi-channel surround sound support.         Xbox LIVE Enter the ultimate social entertainment experience with Xbox LIVE. Create your avatar as the virtual you. Enjoy multiplayer gaming or play classic arcade games. Start a virtual party to show off your photos to up to 8 friends while you’re all connected in a party chat. You can even access your Netflix instant Queue to stream movies and TV shows directly to your TV.** Xbox LIVE connects you to your favorite people and now offers more entertainment online than any other device connected to your TV. Xbox LIVE® Marketplace - Download the latest game demos, arcade games, television, movies, and more straight to your Xbox 360 console via your broadband internet service.         Family Settings The new, more robust Family Settings features in Xbox 360 help parents control the online and offline game experiences of their children by selecting whether they can play online and whom they play with, and by locking the console to play only games that meet a certain rating. The Family Timer also helps parents regulate how long their kids can play their Xbox 360.

* Xbox 360 Elite Game of the Year Bundle available for a limited time only while supplies last; inside marked packages.
** Hard drive recommended for Xbox LIVE, and is required for some features. LIVE Gold membership and/or other fees may apply. Netflix instant streaming requires LIVE Gold membership and Netflix unlimited subscription (sold separately). See www.xbox.com/live.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NEVER BUY A 360 "SIGHT UNSEEN", July 5, 2009

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Jugger Grimrod - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Xbox 360 Elite Halo 3 Fable 2 Bundle (Video Game)

First off, the XBOX 360 is an amazingly fun system, XBOX Live only adds to it so I would give the console 5 stars easily. My review is basically due to the fact that Amazon is in fact touting this Elite as the "latest version" when, even as others claim, is not the case. The "latest version" as Amazon claims, would then be the "Jasper" chip set. Well, that is what gamers would assume, correct? Most, if not all, of the people reviewing this system isn't for the XBOX 360 Elite system itself, but for the tagline "Newest Version" or "Latest Version". I believe what they are doing isn't intentional, but rather, advertising the system as the latest "bundled" version which it in fact technically is. Hardcore games read it as the latest "chip revision" which would be the Jasper chip set, but Amazon isn't in the market to be able to make these claims, I simply believe they are advertising it as the newest bundle to be released. It is all a simple miscommunication or advertising. What Amazon SHOULD do is title it as "Newest Bundle" or "Latest Bundle" and not use the word "Version".

But simply put, IF you want to save yourself the grief and headaches thinking you may get the latest chip set, simply do not buy an XBOX 360 via mail order. Find out for yourself by going to a retail store and looking through the break away in the back of the box. You may need to slightly jiggle the unit but you want to look under the "UL" logo on the back, for the line of text that starts with "12v". In that sequence of letters/numbers look for the "12,1A" and that will denote that it is the latest chip set "Jasper" (until the next chip set revision is released in either late 2009 or early 2010 code named "Valhalla". The arcade and pro units have this 12,1A already, the Elite systems though appear to be harder to find, however, the Resident Evil 5 Elite bundle recently released, as one poster mentioned, is in fact the first confirmed Elite system with the Jasper chip set. By the time you are reading this though, my guess is the Elite Jasper chip units will be in more supply at local retailers. It is impossible for Amazon or any online retailer to confirm this, as most will have no idea what you are talking about. Simply go to a store and check for yourself, it's the easiest way to determine and takes the guess work out of it for you.

106 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old, failure-prone console repackaged as new!, May 5, 2009

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D. Oei (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Xbox 360 Elite Halo 3 Fable 2 Bundle (Video Game)

I expected this "new" Xbox 360 Elite system would feature the current, more reliable "Jasper" chipset, but was disappointed to find my console had a manufacturing date of 6/9/08, proving Microsoft is just clearing inventory of the older, defect-ridden models ("Zephyr" and "Falcon") and trying to pass this bundle off as a great deal! I returned mine immediately. Two free games don't compensate for the increased risk of a RRoD or E74 failure!

56 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sneaky Microsoft: Still Shipping Zephyrs!!!, May 6, 2009

By 

Ken (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Xbox 360 Elite Halo 3 Fable 2 Bundle (Video Game)

I've been setting on the sidelines for the better part of a year, waiting for the jasper Xbox 360s to come out. Like many potential Xbox 360 buyers, I was hoping this was going to be an Elite Jasper release. As the other reviews have stated, it's most likely not at all.

I decided to check out the local blue/yellow electronics store to get a first hand look at one of these. They had four in stock and I got a look at two. After fingering the serial number slot on these two I found one to be a Falcon (14.2 amps) and the other to be....drum roll please.... a Zephyr (16.5 amps)! I had to do a double take to believe what I was seeing. At that point, I decided to let the nice lady helping me pull them down from the overhead rack go about her business. I didn't get a look at the manufacturing date because it wasn't on the labels and I would have had to tear up the inner cardboard liner to see it on the back of the console. I did notice that the box was different between the two units. The Falcon looked like the bundled games label was printed on the box. The Zephyr box looked and felt like a sticker - you could feel bubbles under it.

Despite my disappointment with Microsoft, I'm probably going to go with a Resident Evil 5 special edition console to insure I get a Jasper unit. Hey, maybe the fire engine red will add a splash of color to my living room!

UPDATE(5/26/09): I ended up getting the Resident Evil 5 limited edition Xbox 360 Elite. The unit is indeed based on the Jasper chipset. It is fairly quiet and seems to run very cool. After hours of gaming, the air coming out the vents on the back is barely warm. However, the Resident Evil 5 game sucks...so the value of the combo is diminished in my opinion. I think the Halo3/Fable 2 is a much better value if one has to have an Elite. You just run the risk of getting the older, less reliable technology inside the unit.

Another reviewer believes that the 60 GB Pro version is a even a better deal. In hindsight, I tend to agree. I only use my xbox to play games and watch netflix movies. Even with several games installed, I've only used 40 GB of the 120 GB drive. So for most users like myself, the 60 GB version is good enough. Also, the issue of console color tends to come into play when purchasing an Elite. The fact is the regular elite isn't really black....it's grey. So I'm not sure how well it will match with the normal piano black home entertainment gear.

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