I bought an Xbox 360.

I handpicked the precious box at BestBuy and bought it $376 worth of cash. The guy didn't even give me a bag, I thought I was going to get mugged on my way to my car.

He said I could buy the $50 2-year warranty plan within 30 days... I might do that. Doesn't MS have a free 3 year return policy through the mail in thingy though? Tell me what I should do with this warranty business. The bundle came with two games, Forza 2 and Marvel... totally awesome. I also realized that a bunch of demos and trial versions of arcade games were pre-loaded onto my 360, I was really surprised and extremely happy that I don't feel like I need to go out buy a new game soon, I have so many things to play.

I hooked up to XBL through my laptop's wireless connection... I could do this without paying the $100 for the 360 wireless adapter, but then I would have to have the family laptop connected to my 360 anytime I wanted to play online... I dunno, I might keep it like this for a while, it hasn't been too bad so far.

One thing that I became kind of worried about was with this 1 month free XBL Gold trial. I didn't redeem any code or anything but I'vee been able to play games online. I didn't really want to start my 1 month trial for a few weeks so it would line up with Christmas break and everything...

Anyways, I finally have a "next-gen" gaming system and I'm totally stoked to play some awesome games.

My GamerTag is orangeillini14 so add me and tell me who you are on XBL.