Nintendo "laughed their assess off" when Microsoft tried to acquire the company in 2000

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Azzanation said:

Mandalore76 said:

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.

Fair points, i cant honestly relate as i have had no issues with my launch XB1 and i believe the issues have ironed out with the S/X and Series S/X. My sister also owns a day one OG Xbox which still works like new today. In saying that, you could probably find issues with all consoles weather its hardware or software issues similar to the power brick failures.

The_Liquid_Laser said:

a) The Switch Lite doesn't use joy-cons.

b) Why are you comparing this to the RROD?  The guy I replied to say the RROD was a "small issue".  I say it wasn't.  Now you seen to be equating an out of alignment analogue stick with an entire system that breaks down.  Severity does matter.  A broken console is a lot more severe than an out of alignment analogue stick.  Wouldn't you agree?

I own a Switch, i think its a great console, however the Joy Con issue is not a small issue either, its a wide spread manufacturing issue which shouldn't be ignored. Its a build quality issue so to say one company has build quality issues because one system had an issue that has never reoccurred again and than to claim that the Joy Cons is a small issue is basically picking and choosing. Its still an issue. Nintendo have never had analog stick problems before the Switch (From my knowledge) just like Xbox has never had overheating issues since the early 360 days.

Also I am not saying RROD is a small issue, if so let me re word it. Its small as in its only ever happened once with one console type in the history of the brand. To judge a brand based on "This one time" isn't a fair judgement as its been completely addressed not only with the 360 but also in all future Xbox systems. 

But i will agree RROD affected Xbox more than any other console brand as it cost MS $1.6b to fix. Which they did. If you can find issues with the S/X and Series Consoles, that would be more valuable information since the company has changed a lot since gen 7.

Your argument sounds like this: "Person A has killed 3 people.  Person B has 3 speeding tickets.  Since both have broken the law, they both deserve life in prison."  Severity matters.  You can't equate two things that have drastically different severity.

To be fair, I am annoyed by Joy-Con drift.  In spite of that, my experiences with Nintendo hardware have been better than my experiences with Sony software (but Sony is still really good), and I haven't owned an XBox yet, because I consider it much worse in quality than either Sony or Nintendo.  A console that breaks down after a couple of years is totally unacceptable.  An analogue stick that is out of alignment is kind of like a car that is out of alignment.  It's annoying, but I can live with it.  I can't live with a console that breaks down after a couple of years.  Those are not even remotely in the same category.