The Xbox 360 Elite 15 Years Later

Today we're taking a look at a recent Xbox 360 Elite that I picked up recently. I never had a 360 Elite and at the time it released it brought HDMI to the Xbox platform for the first time to more directly compete with the PlayStation 3.

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[Joshut]

I loved installing 360 games, I had a really scratched copy of Red Dead Redemption and the game would boot and run but eventually would freeze and lock up. I had a friend bring his clean copy over and used his disc to install it to my 360 hard drive. Made it so my copy was only needed as a boot disc which saved me from having to buy a new one.

[shanemb]

I miss games of this generation. High quality but without all the monetization (for the most part)

[Swam]

15 years already?!?! Where did the time go 😔

[TheSupremeArtifact]

I remember getting this when I was 11 years old after my white one broke and feeling so much excitement and joy. God I loved the 360 generation.

[TihetrisWeathersby]

Had a lot of memories with my 360, Playing Skyrim while it was snowing outside, Playing GTA 4 and seeing how much of a technical leap it was from San Andreas etc.

[philipboggs]

I remember installing a 250GB HDD to my elite. I grabbed one of the WD drives that you could flash a different firmware on instead of getting a MS drive and save a ton of money. Still works to this day.

[RAL-AIM]

My first experience with the Xbox 360. My cousins Elite with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion... It sparked greatness moving on from a decade on my PS2 seeing consoles put out PC quality visuals and physics.

[matthewpotter]

Have to say, the 360 is probably my favourite console of all time. Grew up on the PlayStation 1 and 2 (and love them - probably spent thousands of hours playing both, especially the PS2), but I feel the leap to HD gaming was an absolute game changer. Will never forget the first time I saw 360 gameplay in a local game store. Hooked up to a HD TV….. I was blown away. Couldn’t believe the graphics. This felt like the first truly digital console to nail everything. Loved the design, interface, controller, online play. This machine had the lot (and that’s before we even mention the games)!

[_Frank_the_Tank]

My white 250 gig elite 360 was the first console I bought for myself as a young adult. It still works fine, and I still use it occasionally mostly for messing around with modded Borderlands 2 and Pre Sequel save files via Gibbed. It was never subjected to being cooked alive inside a closed up entertainment center, it was never left running sitting on carpet, it was never tormented by a child or pet knocking it around, etc etc. Like all my consoles I pull it apart every couple years to blow the dust out and reapply thermal paste, its amazing how long things last when you take care of them...

[raikiri]

I got a 360 Elite on vacation of all places. I don't know if my dad was just in a silly goofy mood or something that day, but he just bought it for me in a random Walmart near the hotel. Idea being my pre-HDMI 360 would get passed down to my little brother. It actually had an E74 error out of the box, so we had to go back and exchange it.
Having that massive 120GB hard drive was a game changer. I could only really have one game installed at a time on the 20GB HDD (which was more like 13GB usable) and that was usually reserved for Oblivion because trying to move between loading areas in that game while using tray and play was a nightmare.
The big selling feature of the HDMI port wasn't something I got to use right away though. At the time I was using a CRT, though it was a HD CRT so I at least got to use component cables or the VGA cable if I took my 1280x1024 LCD to a friends house.
Overall 10/10. Loved that box.

[itsRecreational]

Got the Mass Effect 2 version at a garage sale from a guy who bought storage units at the time. Was fairly new and he sold it to me for $150. Best gaming purchase I made at the time.

[crookedroots]

I remember getting a 360 elite for Christmas in 2009 and going to best buy on boxing day to get MW2. Those were the best days of my life.

[alienatedpoet]

My old 360 was a christmas present from my parents. Then it got red-ringed just outside of the warranty extension, so we had to pick up an Elite. That thing lasted me so long. The only part of it that broke was the disk drive and I ended up selling it. My Xbox One disk drive also broke... and I bought a ps3 in 2018 as a highschool graduation gift and the disk drive broke on that too...
What is with breaking disk drives? I've used my PC more often than my ps3!

[TheBeardedAtheist]

The thing a lot of people did not know is that you could pop open the hdd case and pop whatever size hdd you wanted in there and format it via the Xbox. Worked awesome.

Edit: Nevermind he covered it lmao

[MSDGAMEZ]

Such a amazing time in gaming. Gaming felt so much more hard-core then

[heyitsevan]

I got the Elite for my 12th birthday in ‘09, and it still runs well to this day. It’s a good system.

[nathanbraun]

this was my first xbox. died after 2 years, sent it in to microsoft, then the replacement died 2 years later again out of warranty.

replaced it with the xbox 360 s and that's been going strong for over 10 years now

[Jet]

I think this will always be my favourite console. Some amazing memories and just generally loved the way it looked as well.

[drfrank]

I had Xbox 360 Elite and my friend told me about HDMI that makes everything crispy and I was mindblown good it looked.

[TJBPlays]

My mum bought me the PS3 in 07 even though she accidentally bought me a 360 leading to christmas before swapping it for the PS3 ready. Although I loved the PS3, the 360 no doubt won that generation and I later got the elite in 09. It was an incredible console, completing Halo 3 legendary with friends, 100% completing all L4D2 achievements, grinding MP on Gears 2. I miss those days so much.