Blow up, shut down, crash or any of that? Apparently its a VERY large problem, with some estimates saying nearly 10% of the shipped X360's are faulty (That number is probably lower than that though). And yes, it's a problem with the hardware, not the software (Meaning the games, not the internal software).
Assault Andy Administrator
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Registered 29/07/2002
Points 5686
25th November, 2005 at 19:13:41 -
Yum Yum! It's not out in Australia yet, so hopefully it will all be cool for the release here in a few months. I'm not sure if I'll get one, I may wait for a price drop, or I may get one of the other nextgen consoles.
Theres no doubt PS3 will be better, even if the E3 graphics were pre-rendered, I still think that overall, they'll be alot better the Xbox 360's. The XBox 660 really wont make a difference to many people unless they have an HD-TV, because other then that, the graphics are maybe only 25% better, even though the processor is alot more powerful. In the end, its not that impressing if you ask me.
I didn't get one. Some of my crazy friends actually spent from 11PM to 10AM waiting in line for their 360s, which apparently work fine. Actually, just today I went to Best Buy to check out the 360 demonstration kiosk...it overheated and died in the plastic display case that Microsoft sent!
"Omg. Where did they get the idea to not use army guys? Are they taking drugs?" --Tim Schafer on originality in videogames
I would never buy a console thats just come out, I'll wait until there are a large amount of games to choose from (and some that I know i'll want anyway) and maybe a price drop.
Ive not had my ps2 and Gamecube for that long.
Mine has some disc read errors, but EB is going to replace it with a system from the second shipment. It still runs everything, but it's really picky on the intial load.
I'm sure we'll know more about the lineup when it's closer to release. It is unlikely that the company with the leading market share in the current generation wouldn't have developer interest for their next console, even if it is a walking joke.
Apparently when Bill Gates unveiled the X360 to the public, he started it up and immediatly got the blue screen of death. Of coarse, that was about 3 months ago I think, so maybe they have fixed it up a little since then. My Microsoft computer crashes quite a bit, so I decided not to buy another Microsoft product when there are 2 more gaming systems on the horizon that look better. I will probabally wait til the Revolution comes out (I like it's remote control system).
I won't buy a Sony or Microsoft system on launch. No way in hell. They just can't design systems (Durability wise) well. I've abused the hell out of my cube (And every other Nintendo System) and it (and they) still work, but if you look at a PS2 or Xbox wrong, it'll either burst into flames, or the DVD drive will die. I mean I dropped my cube down a flight of wooden stairs, and aside from some cosmetic damage (To both the stairs and the cube) it worked fine.
Sony hasn't designed a decent system ever, the original PS for example used to overheat badly, sometimes catching fire if used for too long, and I lost more than one disc due to heat warping. Then the Ps2 came out and the damned DVD drives were absolute shit (Same problem with the Xbox actually) And the system itself wasn't designed to take any type of beating. (My roommate broke his original PS2 by dropping a controller on the system from a height of about a foot). The closest they've gotten is the PSP, and that even has it's fair share of problems (UMDs pop out if you "bend the system" [which to be honest, you should NOT be able to bend a portable game system, I couldn't bend my DS], you press the square button too hard and you can crack the screen (Only if you REALLY jam the button though), and sometimes the square button just gets stuck. Oh, and they lied about the processor too. That doesn't exactly inspire trust in me for the PS3 either.
I do have to say I never thought I'd see the day that a launch console would crash because of it's own internal software/hardware and not because the game they were playing was buggy. So kudos to Microsoft for looking like jackasses.
It's the revolution for me baby, I'll use the money I save from the lower launch price to buy a bunch of games.
I agree with Shab as far as durability. Often I play my GameCube with 3 other friends of mine, and we play basicly on the other side of the room, where the couch is, and the GameCube falls off the dresser more then enough times, and as long as the plugs dont come lose, it still runs perfectly once it smacks the ground. I think I recall XPlay running a small test to see which system was more durable, I might be wrong on the show how ever, it was a while ago. The results came out as fallow:
PS2 died first.
Xbox died second.
GameCube took everything, and still worked in the end. (Never Died)
Anyway, on that note, I'd also add that the multiable collisions my GBA has had with the walls and floor because of never being able to get from point A to B without interfearence in Pokemon (great RPG), & the GBA still works like new. I think its because Nintendo's systems get so compact, that theres no room for anything to shift out of place.
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Registered 23/09/2002
Points 4811
26th November, 2005 at 15:09:16 -
It's stupid to judge a console on physical durability. They're not designed to be thrown around or dropped down stairs. Sure, it makes sense to compare things like MP3 players or mobile phones on that criterion, but they're far more likely to suffer physical abuse. Consoles should just sit there; if they're doing anything else, it's not the manufacturer's fault if they break.
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