Azzanation said:
Id agree, Nintendo make good quality products and have a good track record. I own all Nintendo systems and they all work except the SNES as its CPU failed but the console was abused over the many years of my child hood. My NES still works to this day. I never had the RROD, mainly due to me buying the 360 late in its life when the Slim model was out. In saying that, the other Xboxes are built really well. If you watch people dismantled them, especially the XB1X and Series X, they are engineering feats. |
I like the XBox's, but I have personally experienced issues with all 3 previous generations. On my Original XBox, the power button stopped working after a few years. I Googled it years ago and found numerous instances of other original XBox owners experiencing the same exact issue. As for the 360, my brother and I both experienced the RROD on our consoles, along with friends and co-workers. It's well known how widespread that issue was. I do agree that the Slim was a much better built system though. I upgraded to the Slim when it released in 2010 and it still runs today. However, I got an XBox One in 2014, and a couple of years later, like the original XBox, it stopped powering up. This appeared to be an issue related directly to the power supply that came with the system. After doing some more Googling, I saw other people experiencing the same issue. And, I found what appears to be an entire "cottage industry" on Amazon of sellers offering 3rd Party power bricks as replacements. The power issues with the original XBox and XBox One might not have been anywhere near as widespread an issue as the RROD. But, in the XBox One's case especially, it was common enough that there are over 100 listings for 3rd party XBox One power bricks on Amazon. They are obviously a popular item, because many of the sellers have over 2,000 ratings each, and a couple of them have close to 10,000 ratings. And that's just from the people who actually post a rating after they buy. As I said, I had to buy one for my own console, and it does indeed work again now.
So, while I do like the games in the XBox ecosystem (Gears, Halo, Fable), I can honestly say that I have been burned by their hardware in 3 consecutive generations. I do think they have the worst track record for making reliable hardware among the big 3, and that's coming from someone who has continued to buy their hardware and software over the years.
