I managed try out the Xbox360 at a local store in Turku, Finland today. It was connected to a 23" HDTV but no speakers or sound. My impressions were:
- The image is sharper with HDTV, but it suffered from the same tearing that one can observe with PC monitors when the vsync is off. Very irritating (ratio errors on that perticular TV maybe?)
- The controller is nice (wireless, whee!).
- King Kong looked like an aware PC-game, nothing special since it was a port.
- NHL2006 had nice reflections but xbox 1 graphics in general, meh.
- NBA2006 had massive tearing and jumpy framerate, but better graphics than the Xbox, yay!
- PGR3 was really beatiful, and had nice graphics, feel and gameplay. No collition detection though.
Overall: I wouldn't get it at this stage, none the games had any interest (PGR3 was nice, but i wouldn't buy a Xbox360 for that). When the price goes down and with a library of games like Halo 3, Ninja Gaiden 2 + some Bioware, Obisidian and Mistwalker rpg's, i might get it.