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J_Allard on 23 February 2013
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forevercloud3000 said


1. No I didn't buy one, because their actions toward the end scared me away, just as their actions towards the middle of 360's life scared me away from it.

 

2.Was actually being generous with that figure in comparison to what some reports say. 33-54% depending on who you talk to.

http://consumerist.com/2009/08/17/xbox-360-failure-rate-is-542-percent-game-informer-finds/

 

3. Um seriously? MS moneyhatted most exclusives to break exclusivity contracts with Sony in the beginning, after a while, everyone else had to follow suite. I always felt like the quality on the average genre has fallen due to the uprise of everything being Multiplatform. Not that they all are bad, but that they are usually lacking to me in some way. RPGs for instance, which is my fav genre, have become strange shadow versions of themselves. Look at Crash Bandicoot as an exclusive, then look at it as the MP abomination it is now....THATS how I feel about many MPs.

4. You can't make that as if I'm the only one saying this. Just look through this thread. Many 360 OWNERS are saying this, not just me.

5.You can't pretend that 360 hardcore don't bring up XGC as the reason why they prefer it over PS3 either. Its just common knowledge.

5.How is HDMI not important?????? Everything is HD, regular SD has been phased out by Television stations all together. Some TVs no longer have AV/RF ports. The fact the original didn't have one meant they really had no forsight, or they didn't care as it would just mean many consumers would just run out for another version...which they did. PSN has come a long way since its inception. Sure, it was a bubling mess in the beginning, but now it virtually stands toe to toe with Live, and going into Next Gen it is sounding like PS4 will far surpass anything MS can do(we wil see). So when the competition is offering all those things standard/in the package deal, what is their excuse? You might find that these things are necessarily "needed" for your gaming pleasure, but the huge numbers of people who bought those peripherals just so their console could be competent did. Shit, from many of the people I have spoken to, the built in Wifi and better heat sync were at the top of the list for reasons to get the 360 slim.

 


Well lets be honest here. If you waited 4 years into the life of the Xbox and never bought one, and now 8 years into the 360 and never bought one, then you already had some issues with MS and they simply havent swayed you. Things that obviously run pretty deep. Either way, not owning either console certainly puts you at a disadvantage with people who actually use it every day and know what MS has or has not been doing for them, as opposed to reading about it on the Internnets. It certainly explains some of the ignorance in the OP.

As for failure rates, sorry, but an analysis from a warranty provider trumps a damn reader poll from a fan magazine any day of the week. Your opinion regarding exclusives is just shortsightwd and biased. You honestly come across as someone who is just bitter that Sony no longer has all these exclusives. Look at it more logically. Do you have any links to this supposed moneyhatting? I thought not.

I never said or implied that you are the only person saying MS abandoned the hardcore. Lots of people here make that mistake. Of course, the interesting thing is almost all of them are like you. They have an agenda. Cross game chat is a nice feature but its blown way out of proportion by you guys trying to make it into some God tier feature. Thats just the way it goes. Regarding HDMI, you do know you can get HD without it, yes? seems strange to have to ask such a simple question.