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

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Azzanation said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

I agreed that the difference in severity is night and day, however its still an issue which all platform holders have. RROD was a thing in the past. Its like you saying, you would never jump on a brand new Cruise Ship because it was made by the same brand who made the Titanic 100 years ago. 

Also keep in mind, Xbox create extremely powerful systems compared to modern Nintendo systems. Basically saying, Xbox build race cars while Nintendo build Eco friendly cars. Of course more things will go wrong when you have to push the limits of power. In saying that, RROD has been absent for over a decade, its none existent now. They have made 7 more consoles since the RROD machines and this issue has never occurred again, in saying that, Xboxes now have some of the best cooling methods in the industry today.

Imagine if i said, i would never buy a Nintendo console because SNES had CPU failures or i would never buy a PS because PS1s had disk tray problems. It was in the past and its not even close to the same company anymore. Like i said, i love Nintendo, i own everything they make and i agree, they are extremely reliable however they are not perfect and comparing Xboxes to Nintendo systems is comparing apples to oranges and are on different sides of the spectrum. 

If I wanted to play the games offered on an XBox system, then I'd probably just buy a Playstation system instead.  Even if enough time has passed that I can overlook the RROD, I have enough good experiences with Playstation hardware, that I would probably just get that instead.  Or I might buy a Nintendo system if it had the same games I was interested in, because I've had even better experiences with Nintendo hardware.