finally the day i've longed for has finally come...i am now a proud 360 owner like many others:P

i honestly never thought the day consider buying a 360 would come but it seems like i was wrong...oh yeah i was.

after my first day with this little box, i can give an early verdict: A-W-E-S-O-M-E

well, one thing at a time.

so the package arrived around 11 am which i ordered from amazon.de two days ago.

i guess i am not alone but i really love unboxing new things. okay...i liked the box so much that i starred at it for minutes :P

everything looks nice and clean. compared to the box the ps3 comes in, this looks definitely better (and this comes from a sony fan ;) ).

so here is finally the most important part of all, THE box itself.

here are the manual and probalby the warranty stuff. i didn't take it out of the foil though.

everything else that comes with the box, controller, headset, cable and so on. everything is very well packaged and sealed with a cellotape.

also this seems like the better solution compared to the ps3 packaging. you had to tear the plastic foil apart because the foil was fused.

here are the controller, component cable and so on. i am especially pleased with the component cables, not only doesn't sony include them with every ps3 but also doesn't look and feel the 360 ones cheap like the ps3 ones. all in all i am quiet surprised, i didn't think that these would seem to be of such quality.

i don't know what m$ thought when they developed the 360. wtf is this supposed to be? i can't remember seeing a power brick of that size in my whole life. but i won't complain about that because it doesn't matter anymore after you have found suitable spot to place it.

Powering Up The Beast

as you can already guess from the crappy pictures above i didn't use a good camera, in fact it was the built in webcam of my laptop.

i thought i'd take some pictures additional pictures from the tv starting up my 360 but it's not really necessary because all of you know it buy now.

the first thing i noticed when i booted up my 360 is that this thing is almost setting itself up. unlike with the first start up of my ps3 i didn't even had to configure my network settings, the 360 did all the work by itself and i had instant access to everything the 360 has to offer (excluding xbox live gold).

after creating my gamertag i started to download some demos which was just as fast as doing it on my ps3 (i didn't have any problem with the download speed on my ps3 despite many people say so). the real surprise came after the download was finished and the demos were instantly playable, respect!

i almost forgot that i had to update but even that took only seconds. i really fell in love with the system the second i pushed the xbox button. just everything feels right about it, from the whole interface, the easy navigation and xbox live.

the first demo i've played was bioshock (already played the same demo on my pc but it was a kinda rough ride) and it was brilliant. i guess it will take some time to feel as comfortable with the 360 controller as with the ps3 controller but i already quiet like it.

the biggest shock however was to find out, that my 360 is running more quiet than my ps3 :shock: how can this be? okay many people say that their ps3 is almost completely silent but i can agree with it. after a few minutes, the fans of my ps3 kick in and it's far from being silent.

the 360 isn't silent at all but it is quiet confortable. well seems like there is something wrong with my ps3...

so how did you feel after unboxing and starting up your 360 or ps3 for the first time?