The Xbox 360 gaming console will take the boredom away giving you hours upon hours of great playtime. Not only can you play games, you can download games, you can watch TV and play other media sources. What a great way to spend a day or night. You may think that this gaming console would be expensive. You are wrong. Over the past few years the Xbox 360 has come down in price a lot. You can purchase and Xbox 360 gaming console for around a hundred and ninety nine dollars. Wow, not much for a great entertainment center. You could spend that much on a dvd/blue ray player alone.


After you give in and purchase this great gaming console you will want to start purchasing your games. Now the games aren’t cheap but they will add hours of entertainment. But instead of having to go to the store and stand in long lines why not purchase the game online and download. You can even purchase a membership and pay once and get many different games downloaded for free. In addition to these games you can also download free software, free firmware and free gaming manuals. These will allow you to have hours of fun.

So while your friend is having trouble at the game store, trying to find a game, you can sit at home and hook your Xbox into the internet. You can sign up and be downloading in seconds. You could have played your new game for hours while your friends stood for hours at the game store. You can show them how quick and easy downloading a game can be. With a game demo you can download and if you do not like the game you can simply not download it. This means there will be no more purchasing a game only to find out you do not like it. This feature is also great for gift giving. You can let your friends and family sample the game to figure out which one you want to get them.

When downloading these games you could be watching streaming media from online television thanks to the Xbox 360 being equipped with Windows Media Player. Since the Xbox 360 gaming console is made by Microsoft, it is much like a little minicomputer. Remember with these little mini computers they have different amounts of memory. The Xbox 360 Elite has 250 G’s of hard drive, plenty of room to store all your great games.

Remember after purchasing your new Xbox 360 gaming console to consider downloading your games. This will save you a lot of time and money. Also consider saving and backing up your gaming files. This could save you a lot of money as well. In addition do not forget to make sure that your gaming console is up to date on all of its different software, including the firmware. This will keep your gaming console up to date and in tip top running order.