Adding himself to the ever-growing pool of Xbox 360 failure coverage, Seth Jayson of The Motley Fool is warning investors that the Xbox 360's failure rates could hurt its future growth. After receiving the dreaded Ring of Death himself (and some faulty Zunes), Jayson has some fighting words for Microsoft. Of particular note, is the statement that the actual failure rates aren't as important as the perceived failure rates. In other words, the stories of multiple failed Xbox 360s are much louder than Microsoft's claims that failure rates are within the acceptable standard. Jayson admits that, when functional, the Xbox 360 is a topnotch game player and an excellent media hub to boot, but if the public perceives it as faulty, then Microsoft stands the chance of "alienating potential customers and crimping future growth." In conclusion, Jayson notes that Microsoft must address these basic hardware issues before it can effectively execute its plans for new-gen dominance.
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
Wolfenstein: The New Order turns ten years old today, so we decided to play it again and discovered just how much of an extinct kind of game it is.
It's an outstanding game and so was The Old Blood. Also a lost era of gaming. Interesting, I received a physical copy of The Old Blood 9 years ago today from Poland. It was digital only in North America initially upon release so I had to import.
Some of you hardcore M$ fans really need to get M$'s nuts out of your mouth, and speak out about this issue. The more hardcore loyal fans that speak all at once, the more M$ will be willing to listen. But as long as there are 360 fanwhores that are on their 3rd, and 4th 360 that don't mind paying out of their ass, then M$ wont give a sh!t.
I'm sure M$ is going to get drilled with questions come E3-07. I wonder what they're going to have to say for themselves. I hope it's not another ...."well things break ya'know".
And this is one of those situations. I'm not an M$ hack either.
Out of 42 poeple on my frinds list only 3 of them had had problems.
I'v4e never had problems. Albeit there are some poor folks that have gone through 3-6 but what the hell are they doing to their systems.
Want a an accurate picture? Poll GamesStop, and EB Games,and other gaming specialist stores and see what there returns are like.
Is the 360 return rate higher than industry? I bet it is, but it is
nowhere even close to what is being bantied about, typically by people whose agendas aren't as pure and blameless as just being concerned consumer advocates.
microsoft will have to answer to the european commisioner about xbox failures and disc scratching at the end of the week, they might not care but europe will unless they sort this issue out ,well you might see
alot of very bad press again
As much as I hate to say it, you've got a point. M$ seriously has some issues. But it's not all true. My 360 is a launch 360, with the crappy Toshiba drive. Guess what, I've never had a single problem with my 360. I mean, I think quite a bit of the failures are a result of poor console placement. I mean a lot of people place their consoles stacked with others, or cable boxes, DVD players, etc. I'm not saying that it isn't M$'s fault for having shoddy build quality. I mean if it was quality built then there wouldn't be such high failure rates as a result of heat.
Come E3-07 M$ will have some tough questions. But I garantee they will put out the same response as always.
what will microsoft do? well continue to screw consumers ..