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Kasz216 on 26 August 2009
AdventWolf said:
I have to disagree with you Zen, Nintendo of course is a great company but they have had their faults too.
Of course the front loading NES would mess up you know that.
Plus I have had experiences with 3 different GameCubes and each of them have their own problems, disc read errors ftl!

Google the gamecube disc read errors, they were very common.
If I wipe the disc a little and the inside of the GameCube then it temporarily fixes it but it has it's problems as well.

Every company has their share of mess ups, what do you expect? A widespread 100% perfect hardware?

Mine had a disc read error... near launch.  I waited forever to get it fixed though cause i didn't really play the thing.

That said.  I'd say Nintendo was still the king of hardware design.

 

I mean....

 



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AdventWolf on 26 August 2009

^Lol nice, I agree they are great but I had to disagree to the fact that he believes Nintendo makes very high quality hardware without problems.



The Anarchyz on 27 August 2009

Nintendo is the best, Sony is 2nd, and Microsoft is really distant 3rd...

Every company has faulty hardware, especially if the system has mechanical pieces (like disc-based consoles), the thing is, the failure rate can do around 10% (5% is the typical electronics failure rate, but some do 10% or even 15%), meanwhile the RROD, E74, disc-scratching, etc. made the 360 to have an estimate f.r. of 54.2%!!! and some sources are saying that the estimate is not high, but LOW... That's not good at all...



Xoj on 27 August 2009
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Xoj said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:

I highly disagree. I think as far as gaming hardware, Sony has a questionable history.

DREs plagued early PS2's just as much as RRoD does the early 360s, after a couple years of aging. The launch PS1 used plastic for a slider rail, rather than metal, which of course, melted eventually, and cause the console to brick. The PSP slims launched with large numbers of dead pixils, and the PS2 slim's launch was marred by a design flaw which cause the machine to overheat. Even the early PS3 models are prone to overheating with eventual RRoD type extensive hardware failure.

On the other hand, Nintendo has been making quality hardware without need for revisions for a long time.

If my NES still plays, then how is Sony the king of hardware, seriously? Remember the gamecube? That machine was designed to withstand impact. Seriously. Real, impact.

Nintendo has, and probably always will produce more reliable hardware than Sony, in my opinion.

you abit exaggerating things, sony had problems, so have nintendo, and went noticeable with brawl.

but not a single company have problems such as microsoft with it console.

they just can't build reliable hardware,

even if early ps3 have problems even like that still way lower than 6%.

compared to crazy 60% of microsoft, things break, thats a given for everything, but never to such a crazy output.

Yeah, MS' consoles suck, but my most failure prone console has been the PS2, with a whopping 3 purchases of the sucker.

Anyway, I still think Nintendo make the best consoles, from a design perspective, but there is no way I was gonna let the sony asskissing go on, as if they are the angels of console design. They have had way more widespread problems than Nintendo in less time, and at the very least, they aren't perfect as some people(probably people who never owned a Playstation before the PS3) seem to believe.

i jumped to them in ps2 era, never had problems, of course personal info just can be used as bs.

bring me reports of those hardware failure rates. it's not they believe that, they simply never had a problem.



ethomaz on 27 August 2009

Does anyone believe this??

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5346894/ps3-slim-eats-half-the-electicity-of-the-ps3-fat

I'm very impressed with the work of Sony in PS3 Slim.



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luvtospooge on 27 August 2009

Looks sexy inside, very well made. Later on though, I'm pretty sure problems will start to scratch the surface...it can't be perfect..it just can't.... dammit



greenmedic88 on 28 August 2009

95mm Delta fan. Interesting as Deltas are among the best CPU cooling fans for overclocked PCs with aftermarket heat sink fans. Quality, fairly costly component there (for a fan).

Have to say it looks pretty elegant from a design standpoint, but we'll see how reliable that design is over the next year.