With firmware, savings on games are about 1900. But this is fraught with an accelerated failure of the drive + a lot of hemorrhoids when downloading games, searching for the "correct" discs, recording them at the "correct" speed on the "correct" drive. As one of the ways to save money on games - buy online flea markets. Then there is the possibility of saving 1000-1500 on the cost, at a price of 2022-2500 for new games. If you are going to play regularly, immediately buy 2 batteries and a charger - this will deprive you of the hemorrhoids of constantly buying batteries for the joystick. The device has Internet access. The set includes 1 month of Gold account - this is a full-fledged service. It costs about 7-9 bucks a month. The main feature is the ability to play games on the Internet. With a Silver account, you can only download demo versions of games, ate the firmware of the console and ate your games. Playing with Silver is no longer destiny. As a result. The XBox is a great console for gamers. A good, although far from complete replacement for a gaming computer. There are many games, many good games come to the XBox before other platforms. If you are going to play "hard" - then the console is for you. If from time to time - better Wii.