I bought my XBox about a month and a half after it was first released. It has the problematic Thomson drive, but thankfully it has been working solidly up until very recently. Lately it's been having issues with some DVDs, and the occassional error in-game, but for the most part I feel like I've gotten my money's worth.
That said having the XBox 360 with backwards compatibility means that rather than having to go out and buy a new XBox or paying to have it fixed I can spend a bit more, get a brand new console and have something that will play the library of games I've built up over the years. That of course assumes that my librarby is contained within the "select" games they are choosing to make backwards compatible.
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I bought my XBox about a month and a half after it was first released. It has the problematic Thomson drive, but thankfully it has been working solidly up until very recently. Lately it's been having issues with some DVDs, and the occassional error in-game, but for the most part I feel like I've gotten my money's worth.
That said having the XBox 360 with backwards compatibility means that rather than having to go out and buy a new XBox or paying to have it fixed I can spend a bit more, get a brand new console and have something that will play the library of games I've built up over the years. That of course assumes that my librarby is contained within the "select" games they are choosing to make backwards compatible.
Well you could always wire your case like they did at TechTV with thermite, that should destory any, uh, "sensitive" material. TechTV