Ramblings of a Samurai and his Duct Tape

Red Ring of Death

My Xbox has been inflicted with brokenness, as evidenced by the RRoD. I'm weighing my options on whether I want to get a new one or not, and I'm leaning heavily toward the new Xbox. I don't play as much as I used to, but I had started using it to stream videos from my comp to play on the tv quite often, which also included workout vids. I'm very torn, because while I could afford it, if barely by dipping into some of my savings, it's quite a bit of cash. Maybe a list of arguments either way can help me...





New Xbox


$400


Will have Kinect


much more memory than I currently have ($130 if I wanted to upgrade that separately)


brand new warranty and shiny parts, including new controller ($50 for new controller on it's own... really don't remember them being that expensive)


Wi-Fi is built into the console, so I would have one less cord running from my router across the room





Repair old xbox


$100+ to send into microsoft, and wait time of 2-6 weeks


or continue taking it apart on my own after buying the tools($20 or so) I need, and no guarantee it will even work


To get kinect would be $150


could break again, the console is about 4 years old








I'm leaning even more heavily toward getting a new one now... and I did get a best buy gift card in my xmas presents so that's a small step toward it. I have no idea what I would be getting otherwise with it as for the most part I don't buy music outside of itunes. I was planning to get Kinect eventually, but was hoping to wait until the price went down. But who knows how long it's gonna be until that happens... next black friday? At least the Xbox waited until after xmas to gain it's red lights.