Godot on 11 November 2008
| Impulsivity said: I don't know if it has really been fixed. I have seen a lot of tests both rational and irrational (see the Xplay smash test, where two guys try their best to break all three consoles. The Wii and PS3 take some serious punishment and keep on working, the 360 is toast after just a smack to the top of it) and the 360 always comes off really badly. It is just a poorly designed console with a lot of problems that still haven't really been addressed. I know someone with the new one, the system is STILL loud as hell, the wireless adapter is still extra and 90 bucks, it still gets so hot (yes even the new ones) that I think RRODs are a real possibility and it still is just a shoddily made piece of electronics that Sony or Nintendo would never put their name on. I'm trying to think of a worse made more unreliable piece of video game tech through the last 7 generations and I just can't. The NES, SNES, Genesis, Gamecube, PS1, PS2, Saturn, Dreamcast, Turbo Grafix 16 ect ect...none of them had anywhere near these kinds of problems. After 6 years my NES did break but the repair was about 20 bucks and the guy did it in a weekend. I don't get this "oh if it breaks I'll just buy another one, who makes reliable well made consoles anyway! It's not a big deal" thing. Is it too much to ask for a bit of quality in a 400 dollar consumer electronics device? Is it too much to ask a company not to lie when it fails time and time again? Is it too much to ask them to REALLY fix it and not just make tiny adjustments that only lower the failure rate slightly even after 3 years? I bet you anything the failure rare of a new "fixed" 360 is higher then a release Wii or PS3. Demand more or expect less from now on. If people will still buy a crap console that breaks if you look at it wrong then what motivation is there to really do it right the next time? If it comes down to the new Xbox trying to be first to market and there being ANOTHER reliability problem, you can bet Microsoft will just release the dud anyway once again because apparently people will buy it multiple times if it fails. And releasing something that could potentially break a lot of consoles right after the warranty ends is a whole new level of douchey. They should have manned up, fixed the problem through a complete redesign and done a proper recall. I can't think of another product ever that gets close to a 50% failure rate and DOESN'T get both of those things. Can you imagine the flak if the Iphone had a 50% failure rate? Or a TV, or an ipod, or anything else? |
I don't know. Mine doesn't make that much noise or get hot... and I bought it this summer.
How many cups of darkness have I drank over the years? Even I don't know...
