Not sure if you could get an LED for less than 400. So it would seem a LCD would be affordable. You can get some top of the range older LCDs for good prices nowadays. 40 would be a good size, once you have lived with it for a few months it seems small.
Well if he wants to play online with his friends it will depend as well. Xbox has online subscriptions Gold membership is £39.99 a year, whereas PS3 online is free and you can have as many accounts as you like.
Skyrim is totally different to assassins creed. Assassins creed is more linear whereas skyrim you can literally do anything you want. It is a more hardcore rpg game.
No idea how to equip weapons without going through the whole menu system
When in the items menu, select something to favourite. Then in the favourites menu you can hotkey them. Thats for PC don’t know how it works for console.
I’ll just buy on the day. Sainsburys is bound to do some offer. I bought MW2 on the day £24 from Sainsburys. Bought Black Ops £28 on the day from Sainsburys aswell.
700 is enough. For £750 I got a pretty well specced machine. Able to play Crysis on max graphics. It’s all down to the graphics card, amount of ram and processor, spend as much on those.