Panicnausia said:
Still makes zero sense to me but it's your life I guess. I would never re-purchase a bad product like that ..ever. |
Well thats just one side of my story for the sake of this thread.
For the GTA craze I jus had to get a ps2 because it was exclusive. In ONE MONTH. two ps2's gave me the old "disc read error" both from retail one brand new and one referbrished. I was against sony more or less from then. in the 7th generation, I din't rush to get a 360 oor ps3. I had a cheap wii, that was fun, played smash bros a whole lot. I craved more power though as I could bareley tell the difference in power from the gamcube that I also owned.
Before I got anything, like clock work a friend brought be a ps3 and asked if I could fix it. (I do a lot of work with eletronic parts so he assumed I could do something about it). And so my introduction to the ps3 was th same as my last memories of the playstaysion series. a console that didn't work. My decision to get a 360 was set soon after that encounter as my original xbox's (2 of them) never gave me any trouble.
and it took about 2 years for the elite to red ring. I did do my research before buying and the elite was new at the time and had a different cooling system than the previous modles. I was convinced it was red ring proof. I was wrong.....buy the time it died I had already bought a core system for my brother.
Then I found a guy selling his console for just 100 along with halo 3, couldn't pass it up. at that point, I was convinced every system had a chance to fail except for the nintendos that never ever messed up on me. but the playstations.......mostly bad experiences.
I was unlucky because in a little over a year the street purchase e7'd. and the last deal I did was trade a 19' plasma and a ipod touch aand nano for a 360 slim with 2k12 and a 350 gb hard drive..those were old things I never used, I didn't even think to tally the value becuse to me they were worthless. and the 360 got use almost every day sense. and now the 360 I bought for my bro years ago about 4 or 5 is still working, the disc tray just is stubburn.
when it comes to counting on something to work, nintendo certainly had them both beat but after I got a feel of the 360, my wii did nothing but collect dust. I would stick with nintendo if they stayed reletivley even on the power output.
