The xbox 360 is the worst console that has ever existed (n/t)
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Jiarn
Out of the box? Sure.
With a few tweaks? Yeah, not so much.
With a few tweaks? Yeah, not so much.
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Chibibar
Having exchange SIX (yes 6) 360 with RRD erros (thank god for exchange program on site with the store) I gave up and got PS3. Now Xbox system itself it not bad while I had it. I had lots of fun playing the games, but man.... I hope the new gen (planning to get it) is much better.
Didn't Microsoft say they aren't looking to replace the 360 until 2013 or 2014?
Console wars should have died with the SNES/Genesis era.
My brother has had two RRODs, so he's on his third 360.
I'm on my first PS3 and first Wii.
I'm on my first PS3 and first Wii.
what do your faces look like when it breaks and you have to pay to send it away for 6 weeks and then repeat the same process in a year's time?
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Jiarn
It's pretty sad that the fix to prevent RROD is ridiculously easy to get done. Though it does bring to question the original thought of this thread.
Are you questioning the original development of the 360, or the console itself? Due to it's ability to be modded, it's easily the best console ever released. When tweaked in the right way, you'll easily see it last as long as any other system out there.
Are you questioning the original development of the 360, or the console itself? Due to it's ability to be modded, it's easily the best console ever released. When tweaked in the right way, you'll easily see it last as long as any other system out there.
It's not ours
But, as Tegid has said, in 5 years of use, both our xbox 360 owner friends have had a red ring of death each one.
My entire attraction to a console is that I buy it and then I don't have to do anything to make it play video games.
XBox 360 fails massively at the only thing I like about consoles
Thus - the worst of all time
XBox 360 fails massively at the only thing I like about consoles
Thus - the worst of all time
Junk food and guns.
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Jiarn
The interesting point here is that my opinion is almost a polar opposite. My attraction to the console is what it's capable of in the right hands. With some research and work, it can do things no other console can.
Xbox 360 succeeds tremendously where nothing but a PC could match.
Thus - my favorite of all time.
See I hear this all the time, but the problem is, I don't need my video game system to be a PC. I need it to play video games. If what makes it great is that you can make it like that other box sitting next to it by doing some mods then... well... I guess it's just not what entices me.
RROD happens based on cycles of manufactured 360s, so if your country got a later wave than the U.S. back when they were first coming out, odds are your country has less percentage of them.
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Jiarn
See I hear this all the time, but the problem is, I don't need my video game system to be a PC. I need it to play video games. If what makes it great is that you can make it like that other box sitting next to it by doing some mods then... well... I guess it's just not what entices me.[/QUOTE]
No, what I mean is that I can install all the emulators I currently use on my PC, play with my kids on my big screen, in HDMI, without having to unplug my PC and move it around.
Everything I need in gaming, I have in my modded xbox.
See I hear this all the time, but the problem is, I don't need my video game system to be a PC. I need it to play video games. If what makes it great is that you can make it like that other box sitting next to it by doing some mods then... well... I guess it's just not what entices me.[/QUOTE]
No, what I mean is that I can install all the emulators I currently use on my PC, play with my kids on my big screen, in HDMI, without having to unplug my PC and move it around.
Everything I need in gaming, I have in my modded xbox.[/QUOTE]
So, you like 360 because it's easier to steal on.
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Jiarn
If I could find and buy all the old CPS1 and CPS2 boards, install the cabinets and play with my kids that way. I would. If there were any arcades still alive today, that had those type of games still available, I would go there. Sadly neither is an option and my kids love playing D&D, Simpsons, X-Men, 1942, and another large host of MAME games. I'm sorry if that's considered stealing. I don't download and burn newly released 360 games, any SNES/GEN/GBA games I download usually are ones I've owned at some point. Though thank you for assuming such.
This. SNES still ticking fine.[/QUOTE]
My SNES works fine. My NES, on the other hand, is a piece of shit. I'm on my third one.
Top load NES systems are supposed to be much more reliable.
Also yeah, never had a RRoD on my 360, had it for 4 years now. Though I do agree it's stupid to even have to worry about something like this. We had an early run of the ps2 and had to send it back as well for a hardware issue; apparently the disc tray was heavy so if you lay the system flat it would weigh on the boards in a pretty damaging way.
Also yeah, never had a RRoD on my 360, had it for 4 years now. Though I do agree it's stupid to even have to worry about something like this. We had an early run of the ps2 and had to send it back as well for a hardware issue; apparently the disc tray was heavy so if you lay the system flat it would weigh on the boards in a pretty damaging way.
My brother had one RRD and it was fixed in no time at all. He's the only person I know who has ever experienced one.
*sits back comfortably with his PS3* Ahhhhhh.
ProTip: Nothing lasts longer than a Nintendo system, though. I've seen Gameboy's that have been dropped from third story windows and stormed on that still played fine.
This. I've got a game boy pocket that was chewed up pretty badly by an ex-friends dog. The original plastic switch is gone so I have to reach in and flip the smaller switch manually, but it still runs fine.
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