issues on the xbox 360

If you're a new xbox 360 gamer then read on as the following advice could help you avoid losing alot of time!

In order to play Halo 3 on my xbox 360 i had to create a profile. i was playing offline so i created an offline profile. the profile is basically an id and a record of gamer facts relating to my xbox games. so when i play halo 3 my offline profile records my in game achievements and various stats relating to the game. after playing for about 10 hours i decided to give xbox live a try. xbox live is like everything xbox over the internet. in order to access xbox live i had to create an online profile, so i created my online profile but little to my knowledge the halo 3 save game files hadn't been transferred across to my new online profile and so i would have to start from scratch! what a waste of time! there should be a way of transferring save game files from offline profiles to online profiles but there isn't as it doesn't exisit and i've looked on google for a way to do it but my searches were fruitless. readers who are unfamiliar with xbox gaming should realise that by gaining achievements by completing the games various stages unlocks rewards that go towards my profile.
let me digress for a moment, one letter costs £5! as you can imagine when creating a gamer tag name for yourself on the xbox 360 requires you to be quite original in your choice, given that there are millions of gamers its pretty hard to find a name that hasn't already been used, and xbox wont allow the same name to be used twice. after discovering my first 10 names were already used by other gamers i rather joyishly stumbled upon a name that no one had used, it was "chaotic komodo" , although at the time i hadn't realised that i had spelt it like "chatic komodo" so i proceeded in all my ignorance and completed my online profile. as soon as i had completed it i realised the spelling mistake, and so i immediately set about going to change it, but much to my horror to change the spelling mistake would cost me about £5 in gamer credits. now let me briefly explain what these gamer credits are, xbox operated an online market where people can exchange cold, hard money with online gamer credits which can then be used to purchase things in the xbox market place, such as game add ons, games, films, music etc. so i decided that one letter was not worth £5, and i was quite annoyed that microsoft were being so harsh in punishing me for an innocent spelling mistake, they sure think of the wierdest way to screw you out of some honest cash.

what should microsoft do next for the xbox 360?
microsoft should address the issue that people from other countries regularly play together but cant understand each others language. my proposed solution is to use speech recognition inter-language translation software essentially built into the microphone interface. see that language barrier fall! see it!

the economics of xbox 360 purchases
my advice for consumers in norwich is to buy xbox games from gamestation which can be found in the castle mall two shops down from zavvi (rip). you can get halo from gamestation for £10 when bought with another game such as elders scroll: oblivion iv. in zavvi halo 3 on its own is about £30! in hmv its over £20!

sellers of xbox 360's operate mixed bundling and product differentiation strategies to make maximum profits. the way bundling works is that xbox 360 consoles are sold with games for a price that is less than selling the games and console separately. the down side to this bundling is taht consumers dont have much choice over the games that come in the bundle, and so some people may be put off a particular bundle because of the games. the bundles are formed by complimentary products in the sense that games are a complimentary product for xbox 360 consoles. in most cases people find that buying a console on its own is just the same price as buying the exact same console bunled with some games, so people buy the console even though they have no desire to own the games that are bundled with it.
at first glance it may seem that there are in fact 3 different xbox consoles, but they are in fact just slightly different versions of the same product. the main difference between the consoles is the memory, the arcade version comes with 256mb, the pro version comes with 60gb and the elite console comes with 120gb.