• Published:March 12th, 2008
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• Category:Customer Reviews, Gaming

Perhaps those tax refund dollars are burning a hole in your wallet, and you’ve made the decision to put aside your reliable TurboGrafx-16 and enter the vibrant world of next-gen console gaming. Which system should you choose? Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it can be a daunting decision to make, especially considering the not-insignificant cash outlay involved.

Have no fear, friends. EBGames’s customer reviews are there to help you make the right choice. Let us bask in their sagacity:

“friend” uses beatnik poetry and the occult to advocate on behalf of Sony:

every body get a ps3 you will be glad if u did because it doesint over heat its basicly like a computer but some people dont understand it doesint come with a hd cord witch are like 20 bucks and to charge the remote u use a usb cord instead of buying a sepreat one and online is totaly free i dont think xbox live is free so get a ps3

“a PS3 and wii owner” with a similar grasp of the English language concurs:

this is bad I was so mad i played it for about 1 day and i was so bord so i went back and bought a PS3 it is so sweeeeeeeeeet i have been stuck on it seens i bought it about 1 year ago the games are beter everthing is beter about it so dont get a 360 get a PS3.

“superlink1233″ gives the XBox 360 a five star review…despite not having purchased the console yet:

okay so i havea job and i im getting payed next week on the 9thteenth and i want to buy a xbox 360. but im reading gamer reviews about the ROD(rings of death). is this console worth most of my paycheck? is it worth me mailing it to microsoft if i ever come across the rod pleaseeeee let me know. also how long does people have to play there xbox 360 a day to decrease breaking. please respond. to this thank you

The Xbox 360’s notorious “red rings of death” overheating problem? Nothing that can’t be solved with some terrycloth and sympathetic magic, according to this acolyte of the machine spirits:

Ok to fix your xbox 360 with ring of death you must first leave the xbox on then put 2 towels, witch it would reheat the xbox and fix it,then wait 20 minutes get the towels off and disconnect the cable from xbox connect it again and
turn it on it should work fine.)

“BmxEvol” is all about the “braging rites,” which I suspect are like sacrificial rites, only performed in the rumpus room, and chanted in the cthonic language of l33t :

I love my 360, I just got a ps3 and i love it also but theres no gamer score AKA no braging rites. The PS3 Is a computer and a 360 is a game system so if you have a computer id gett this. Halo 3 is going to make people buy alot more 360s. Microsoft did a good thing that sony did not they do not make xbox games anymore so now everyone has a 360.

“dementedtool” wants to set the record straight, coherency be damned:

dont think of my as a sony fan boy i’m not far from it but i’v had 2 360 systems both which have broke on me and i dont know what some people are saying about oh keep good care of it and it’ll last forever -_- i bearly played it when i had it i work from 10am to 8pm mon-fri so i dont have alot of time to play i kept the system laying down not standing nothing even came close to touching it DVDs never came near it and on both accounts they had broke. its an amazing system with great games but if you buy one spend the extra $50 on the warrenty at EB its worth it today after work i’m stoping by Gamestop and getting a PS3 cuz i haveent read as many bad reveiw almost no accounts of system crashing

Finally, “game assassin#7″ wants you to feel his pain even as he channels Ryan Seacrest’s unholy power:

This game is terrible i got halo3 and the game got the rings of death after 2-min. of gameplay imagine my pain im getting a ps3 after a couple of paychecks so i can get the system cool games and a extra joystick i’ll review the ps3 in a month or so game assassin out

Well, I’ve certainly made up my mind, and my decision is to forget about videogaming entirely and invest in a set of Jarts instead.