| madskillz said: What I find the funniest is - one of the best selling consoles of the last gen was the PS2 - and it suffered big time from the disk read error. Sony quietly fixed it, but it still happens often. And yet, folks still bought it. To claim the potential of failure is a reason not to buy a 360 is just lame, especially with MS offering a warranty extension. Anything can break down - deal with it. [Fanboy rant] |
I left out the fanboy rant part, because it's irrelevant to my future argument.
The PS2 did have disc read errors all over the place, but you know what else it had? Good games (Not ones that are, or will be readily available, or are already on the PC that you are typing your post from). That's the problem. Also, the interwebs weren't as big as they are now, and the internet media couldn't sensaitonalize it like this. Also, this is a fairly expensive console, and one would expect the more money you spend on something, the less it should break down (Funny, what's the PS3's failure rate?)...
Anyway, we also have to understand that the other problem is that this is even worse because of the introduction of microtransactions, buying game content, movies, tv shows, etc, and then getting your 360 back, and having to spend hours on customer support so you can watch the "Friends" episodes you downloaded. Don't simply try to make it into a hardware problem, it's also time-consuming to get all of your ish back on your console. With the PS2, you sent it in, got it fixed, and were playing much quicker than the layover for this.
