All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed

I have been gaming for 18 years now, and I must say the Xbox 360 is BY FARthe worst console I have ever seen.

All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed.

One of the main problems of the Xbox 360 is that Microsoft rushed it to the market to beat Sony and Nintendo by 1 year. The chinese factories who make the system blame Microsoft's haste, poor desigining, and cheap components used to make the Xbox 360 as to why it fails at a rate of 33%.

33%

33%

33% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres. Time to call the FCC. 10 million Xbox 360s need to be recalled and destroyed.

Let's say this is a court. The Xbox 360 is on trial. If found guilty the punishment is that all 360s are to be rounded up and destroyed. These are the charges:

- Failure to give gamer assumed 5 year life span without failing, sometimes up to 4 times

- Making users pay for Xbox Live while their console is being fixed

- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself

- Failure to return original console to users after fix, users usually get a different, refurbished model

- Obnoxiously loud cheapDVD drive and fan.

- Pathetic 20 gigabyte harddrive (only 13GB useable). A couple of demos and you've used half your HDD.

- screwing gamers up the a$$ by relasing new 360 premiums with HDMI

- Charging $180 for a 120gb HDD that you MUST buy from MS when a 2.5" notebook 120HDD can easily be found online for well under $100

- Charging $100 for a wireless network adaptor that you MUST by from MS when a similiar product can be purchased for your PC for well under $40

- Patheticly large cheap power brick that's nearly half the size of the console. Once again another cheap feature of a cheaply made rushed system.

- $60 a year for Xbox Live. $60 for what? Dedicated Servers? Nope. Try laggy peer to peer. $60 for what then? $60 for a gamer tag and a friends list. That's it folks. AND you still have to see ads. Where does the money for the ads go to? In Microsoft's pocket, witht he rest of your $50 that they didn't need.

- Failure to make top games 100% exclusive, as Gears of War, Halo 2, Bioschock and other so called 'exclusive' Xbox 360 games appear on the PC, and tend to be much better on the PC. More maps, mods,and the use of a keyboard and mouse to name just a few. Imagine if Gran Turismo 5 or Mario Galaxy was available for the PC. That shows just how pathetic the 360 'exclusives' are.

- Hyping up the most over-hyped, over-rated game in the history of gaming, Halo, just to sell consoles.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect

- MS Paying Paramount $150,000,000 to drop blu-ray support just to prolong a format war that bluray was winning 3-1 just so you can slow and hopefully stop HD discs progression to the mainstream so you can institute HD movie downloadsand test VC-1 codecs on HD-DVD

- Supporting Toshiba and releasing a HD-DVD drive for the 360 just to make Sony's life miserable

Xbox 360 and Microsoft is therefore found GUILTY of the above infractions of the law. All Xbox 360 core, premium and Elite systems are to be gathered at holding stations across the world, to be collected and brought to a landfill in China to be crushed and burried.

The Xbox 360 is hands down the worst video game console ever built. If it weren't for the mild success of the original Xbox and the lack of competition from Sony and Nintendo during the '05 holiday season the Xbox 360 would have gone the way of the Dreamcast.

Sadly enough, because it had a 1 year head start on it's only rivals, millions of unsuspecting buyers purchased the worst console in the history of gaming.

Yeah i got one the other day, why is there only 13gb on the HDD? What takes up the other 7GB?!Jenova_Flare

I believe the OS or something like that... regaurding the TC's argument. I do think that most of the 360's problems are hardware related but when you're talking about strictly software the 360 brings to the table top-knotch quality titles that I don't think anyone should miss. My personal biggest problem with the 360 is the lack of keeping games exclusive. It really sucks but what can anyone do about it? On average it take roughly 1-3 years for the best games to get ported to the PC which isn't bad I guess. I just don't get why MS won't call their biggest games timed exclusives. I mean we know that 90% are going to the PC. Don't lie to us.

[QUOTE="Jenova_Flare"]Yeah i got one the other day, why is there only 13gb on the HDD? What takes up the other 7GB?!DA_B0MB

I believe the OS or something like that... regaurding the TC's argument. I do think that most of the 360's problems are hardware related but when you're talking about strictly software the 360 brings to the table top-knotch quality titles that I don't think anyone should miss. My personal biggest problem with the 360 is the lack of keeping games exclusive. It really sucks but what are you going to do about it. On average it take roughly 1-3 years for the best games to get ported to the PC which isn't bad I guess.

I totally agree.
The design of the 360 is horrible. The components used are abysmal. For $700 (premium pack + 5 years of XBL) + the extra $10 for each game is a ridiculous amount to pay. Having no dedicated servers is a complete rip-off. How can halo3 be fun if the host has an advantage ?? It totally DESTROYS the experience.


PC gaming FTW !! :Danshul89

The host advantage is Halo isn't that bad, but still you're right. I guess it's tollerable as long as it isn't a Gears of War host advantage. I can't tell you how many times my own blood spelt "HOST" on the screen... >_>

While i dont agree with what you say i'll defend to the death your right to say it

[QUOTE="DA_B0MB"]

[QUOTE="Jenova_Flare"]Yeah i got one the other day, why is there only 13gb on the HDD? What takes up the other 7GB?!Stall0wn3d

I believe the OS or something like that... regaurding the TC's argument. I do think that most of the 360's problems are hardware related but when you're talking about strictly software the 360 brings to the table top-knotch quality titles that I don't think anyone should miss. My personal biggest problem with the 360 is the lack of keeping games exclusive. It really sucks but what are you going to do about it. On average it take roughly 1-3 years for the best games to get ported to the PC which isn't bad I guess.

The PC does get the better versions in most cases but the wait isn't worth it IMO. I couldn't stand to wait for Mass Effect for an extra year or so. Regaurdless, I'm getting a high end PC by the time Starcraft 2 comes out. :D

While i dont agree with what you say i'll defend to the death your right to say it

coakroach

Some famous person said that... I forget who though.

[QUOTE="coakroach"]

While i dont agree with what you say i'll defend to the death your right to say it

DA_B0MB

Some famous person said that... I forget who though.

Verygood post. I was close to not reading but I did, half of it. Good stuff.

Lemmings should start taking notes.

Wow - people are paying sixty dollars a year for Xbox Live? Cool - I'm saving ten bucks since I'm only paying $49.99 a year. :roll:

I can't believe I actually wasted two minutes reading through that.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect DarthaPerkinjan

How is Mass Effect not a rpg? :|

All the other stuff in your post was complete bs too.

Yeah, sure go ahead.

Just leave mine alone, I'm not done playing through Bioshock yet

Yes, Halo 2 Vistais much better than the Xbox version. :roll:

Halo 2 = 95% @ Gamerankings.

Halo = 96% @ Gamerankings.

Yep, definitely overrated. :roll:

Hehehehehehehehe

3% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres.

DarthaPerkinjan

strange that the 360 has a 3 year warranty and it has yet to be out for three years. Also the issues with the HD-DVD sound like good business. Finally who cares if a game is also on a PC most console gamers aren't going to be buying PC games at all. If I didn't have a 360 I'd never play bioshock or any other games in that category.

Yeah i got one the other day, why is there only 13gb on the HDD? What takes up the other 7GB?!Jenova_Flare

I believe the 7gb is reserved for system cache and patches.

Yeah i got one the other day, why is there only 13gb on the HDD? What takes up the other 7GB?!Jenova_Flare

"- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself"

Yeah happened to my GEARs disc. I am surprised it still works but I don't want to spends hundreds building up a game collection I can't play in a few years time, great games and the services the 360 offer are great but the actual hardware is shoddy. Oh and by the way I was not moving my console and there was no earthquake.

this kids "facts" are the funniest i've ever read.....:lol:

oh well, if you don't have facts make some up...:roll:

this kids "facts" are the funniest i've ever read.....:lol:

oh well, if you don't have facts make some up...:roll:

tango90101

I have been gaming for 18 years now, and I must say the Xbox 360 is BY FARthe worst console I have ever seen.

All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed.

One of the main problems of the Xbox 360 is that Microsoft rushed it to the market to beat Sony and Nintendo by 1 year. The chinese factories who make the system blame Microsoft's haste, poor desigining, and cheap components used to make the Xbox 360 as to why it fails at a rate of 33%.

33%

33%

33% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres. Time to call the FCC. 10 million Xbox 360s need to be recalled and destroyed.

Let's say this is a court. The Xbox 360 is on trial. If found guilty the punishment is that all 360s are to be rounded up and destroyed. These are the charges:

- Failure to give gamer assumed 5 year life span without failing, sometimes up to 4 times

- Making users pay for Xbox Live while their console is being fixed

- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself

- Failure to return original console to users after fix, users usually get a different, refurbished model

- Obnoxiously loud cheapDVD drive and fan.

- Pathetic 20 gigabyte harddrive (only 13GB useable). A couple of demos and you've used half your HDD.

- screwing gamers up the a$$ by relasing new 360 premiums with HDMI

- Charging $180 for a 120gb HDD that you MUST buy from MS when a 2.5" notebook 120HDD can easily be found online for well under $100

- Charging $100 for a wireless network adaptor that you MUST by from MS when a similiar product can be purchased for your PC for well under $40

- Patheticly large cheap power brick that's nearly half the size of the console. Once again another cheap feature of a cheaply made rushed system.

- $60 a year for Xbox Live. $60 for what? Dedicated Servers? Nope. Try laggy peer to peer. $60 for what then? $60 for a gamer tag and a friends list. That's it folks. AND you still have to see ads. Where does the money for the ads go to? In Microsoft's pocket, witht he rest of your $50 that they didn't need.

- Failure to make top games 100% exclusive, as Gears of War, Halo 2, Bioschock and other so called 'exclusive' Xbox 360 games appear on the PC, and tend to be much better on the PC. More maps, mods,and the use of a keyboard and mouse to name just a few. Imagine if Gran Turismo 5 or Mario Galaxy was available for the PC. That shows just how pathetic the 360 'exclusives' are.

- Hyping up the most over-hyped, over-rated game in the history of gaming, Halo, just to sell consoles.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect

- MS Paying Paramount $150,000,000 to drop blu-ray support just to prolong a format war that bluray was winning 3-1 just so you can slow and hopefully stop HD discs progression to the mainstream so you can institute HD movie downloadsand test VC-1 codecs on HD-DVD

- Supporting Toshiba and releasing a HD-DVD drive for the 360 just to make Sony's life miserable

Xbox 360 and Microsoft is therefore found GUILTY of the above infractions of the law. All Xbox 360 core, premium and Elite systems are to be gathered at holding stations across the world, to be collected and brought to a landfill in China to be crushed and burried.

The Xbox 360 is hands down the worst video game console ever built. If it weren't for the mild success of the original Xbox and the lack of competition from Sony and Nintendo during the '05 holiday season the Xbox 360 would have gone the way of the Dreamcast.

Sadly enough, because it had a 1 year head start on it's only rivals, millions of unsuspecting buyers purchased the worst console in the history of gaming.

DarthaPerkinjan

Lemmings, you are owned on this thread. I partially work for M$, and I have to say that I can't stand them. Good post though, the Truth hurts, lol

To be quite honest with you, in terms of games the Xbox 360 is the greatest console I have ever owned.And I owned all console this gen,last gen, and the gen before.The only problem with it is that they have a high failure rate although it has never happened to me.But do you guys remember the PS1 or PS2? I'm on my third PS1 and 2 because of hardware problems.Dose that mean that they are bad consoles? Of course not.BatmanBegins24

I remember the "Read disk error" my ps2 got about 2 months into its life span. I also remember having put put my ps1 upside down to make it work. And most older people can remember the three steep process to get a NES game to work "Blow on inside of cartridge, put cartridge in slot and push down, then wiggle cartridge back and forth, repeat if necessary". I have not had any problems with my 360 other than the fact my dog peed on it, and it still worked for a few weeks after that.

I have been gaming for 18 years now, and I must say the Xbox 360 is BY FARthe worst console I have ever seen.

All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed.

One of the main problems of the Xbox 360 is that Microsoft rushed it to the market to beat Sony and Nintendo by 1 year. The chinese factories who make the system blame Microsoft's haste, poor desigining, and cheap components used to make the Xbox 360 as to why it fails at a rate of 33%.

33%

33%

33% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres. Time to call the FCC. 10 million Xbox 360s need to be recalled and destroyed.

Let's say this is a court. The Xbox 360 is on trial. If found guilty the punishment is that all 360s are to be rounded up and destroyed. These are the charges:

- Failure to give gamer assumed 5 year life span without failing, sometimes up to 4 times

- Making users pay for Xbox Live while their console is being fixed

- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself

- Failure to return original console to users after fix, users usually get a different, refurbished model

- Obnoxiously loud cheapDVD drive and fan.

- Pathetic 20 gigabyte harddrive (only 13GB useable). A couple of demos and you've used half your HDD.

- screwing gamers up the a$$ by relasing new 360 premiums with HDMI

- Charging $180 for a 120gb HDD that you MUST buy from MS when a 2.5" notebook 120HDD can easily be found online for well under $100

- Charging $100 for a wireless network adaptor that you MUST by from MS when a similiar product can be purchased for your PC for well under $40

- Patheticly large cheap power brick that's nearly half the size of the console. Once again another cheap feature of a cheaply made rushed system.

- $60 a year for Xbox Live. $60 for what? Dedicated Servers? Nope. Try laggy peer to peer. $60 for what then? $60 for a gamer tag and a friends list. That's it folks. AND you still have to see ads. Where does the money for the ads go to? In Microsoft's pocket, witht he rest of your $50 that they didn't need.

- Failure to make top games 100% exclusive, as Gears of War, Halo 2, Bioschock and other so called 'exclusive' Xbox 360 games appear on the PC, and tend to be much better on the PC. More maps, mods,and the use of a keyboard and mouse to name just a few. Imagine if Gran Turismo 5 or Mario Galaxy was available for the PC. That shows just how pathetic the 360 'exclusives' are.

- Hyping up the most over-hyped, over-rated game in the history of gaming, Halo, just to sell consoles.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect

- MS Paying Paramount $150,000,000 to drop blu-ray support just to prolong a format war that bluray was winning 3-1 just so you can slow and hopefully stop HD discs progression to the mainstream so you can institute HD movie downloadsand test VC-1 codecs on HD-DVD

- Supporting Toshiba and releasing a HD-DVD drive for the 360 just to make Sony's life miserable

Xbox 360 and Microsoft is therefore found GUILTY of the above infractions of the law. All Xbox 360 core, premium and Elite systems are to be gathered at holding stations across the world, to be collected and brought to a landfill in China to be crushed and burried.

The Xbox 360 is hands down the worst video game console ever built. If it weren't for the mild success of the original Xbox and the lack of competition from Sony and Nintendo during the '05 holiday season the Xbox 360 would have gone the way of the Dreamcast.

Sadly enough, because it had a 1 year head start on it's only rivals, millions of unsuspecting buyers purchased the worst console in the history of gaming.

DarthaPerkinjan

You are right!

[QUOTE="DarthaPerkinjan"]

I have been gaming for 18 years now, and I must say the Xbox 360 is BY FARthe worst console I have ever seen.

All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed.

One of the main problems of the Xbox 360 is that Microsoft rushed it to the market to beat Sony and Nintendo by 1 year. The chinese factories who make the system blame Microsoft's haste, poor desigining, and cheap components used to make the Xbox 360 as to why it fails at a rate of 33%.

33%

33%

33% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres. Time to call the FCC. 10 million Xbox 360s need to be recalled and destroyed.

Let's say this is a court. The Xbox 360 is on trial. If found guilty the punishment is that all 360s are to be rounded up and destroyed. These are the charges:

- Failure to give gamer assumed 5 year life span without failing, sometimes up to 4 times

- Making users pay for Xbox Live while their console is being fixed

- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself

- Failure to return original console to users after fix, users usually get a different, refurbished model

- Obnoxiously loud cheapDVD drive and fan.

- Pathetic 20 gigabyte harddrive (only 13GB useable). A couple of demos and you've used half your HDD.

- screwing gamers up the a$$ by relasing new 360 premiums with HDMI

- Charging $180 for a 120gb HDD that you MUST buy from MS when a 2.5" notebook 120HDD can easily be found online for well under $100

- Charging $100 for a wireless network adaptor that you MUST by from MS when a similiar product can be purchased for your PC for well under $40

- Patheticly large cheap power brick that's nearly half the size of the console. Once again another cheap feature of a cheaply made rushed system.

- $60 a year for Xbox Live. $60 for what? Dedicated Servers? Nope. Try laggy peer to peer. $60 for what then? $60 for a gamer tag and a friends list. That's it folks. AND you still have to see ads. Where does the money for the ads go to? In Microsoft's pocket, witht he rest of your $50 that they didn't need.

- Failure to make top games 100% exclusive, as Gears of War, Halo 2, Bioschock and other so called 'exclusive' Xbox 360 games appear on the PC, and tend to be much better on the PC. More maps, mods,and the use of a keyboard and mouse to name just a few. Imagine if Gran Turismo 5 or Mario Galaxy was available for the PC. That shows just how pathetic the 360 'exclusives' are.

- Hyping up the most over-hyped, over-rated game in the history of gaming, Halo, just to sell consoles.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect

- MS Paying Paramount $150,000,000 to drop blu-ray support just to prolong a format war that bluray was winning 3-1 just so you can slow and hopefully stop HD discs progression to the mainstream so you can institute HD movie downloadsand test VC-1 codecs on HD-DVD

- Supporting Toshiba and releasing a HD-DVD drive for the 360 just to make Sony's life miserable

Xbox 360 and Microsoft is therefore found GUILTY of the above infractions of the law. All Xbox 360 core, premium and Elite systems are to be gathered at holding stations across the world, to be collected and brought to a landfill in China to be crushed and burried.

The Xbox 360 is hands down the worst video game console ever built. If it weren't for the mild success of the original Xbox and the lack of competition from Sony and Nintendo during the '05 holiday season the Xbox 360 would have gone the way of the Dreamcast.

Sadly enough, because it had a 1 year head start on it's only rivals, millions of unsuspecting buyers purchased the worst console in the history of gaming.

The_Gamer81

Lemmings, you are owned on this thread. I partially work for M$, and I have to say that I can't stand them. Good post though, the Truth hurts, lol

there is no ownage w/o facts.

the tc made up a bunch of bs. and called it ownage..

and being a busboy at the redmond campus cafeteriadoes NOT mean you work FOR ms...;)

[QUOTE="DarthaPerkinjan"]

I have been gaming for 18 years now, and I must say the Xbox 360 is BY FARthe worst console I have ever seen.

All Xbox 360s should be collected and destroyed.

One of the main problems of the Xbox 360 is that Microsoft rushed it to the market to beat Sony and Nintendo by 1 year. The chinese factories who make the system blame Microsoft's haste, poor desigining, and cheap components used to make the Xbox 360 as to why it fails at a rate of 33%.

33%

33%

33% 1 out of 3 Xbox 360s die within a few months, and most of them after the warranty expieres. Time to call the FCC. 10 million Xbox 360s need to be recalled and destroyed.

Let's say this is a court. The Xbox 360 is on trial. If found guilty the punishment is that all 360s are to be rounded up and destroyed. These are the charges:

- Failure to give gamer assumed 5 year life span without failing, sometimes up to 4 times

- Making users pay for Xbox Live while their console is being fixed

- Console scratches $60 games, and customer service blames everything, including YOU, but the 360 itself

- Failure to return original console to users after fix, users usually get a different, refurbished model

- Obnoxiously loud cheapDVD drive and fan.

- Pathetic 20 gigabyte harddrive (only 13GB useable). A couple of demos and you've used half your HDD.

- screwing gamers up the a$$ by relasing new 360 premiums with HDMI

- Charging $180 for a 120gb HDD that you MUST buy from MS when a 2.5" notebook 120HDD can easily be found online for well under $100

- Charging $100 for a wireless network adaptor that you MUST by from MS when a similiar product can be purchased for your PC for well under $40

- Patheticly large cheap power brick that's nearly half the size of the console. Once again another cheap feature of a cheaply made rushed system.

- $60 a year for Xbox Live. $60 for what? Dedicated Servers? Nope. Try laggy peer to peer. $60 for what then? $60 for a gamer tag and a friends list. That's it folks. AND you still have to see ads. Where does the money for the ads go to? In Microsoft's pocket, witht he rest of your $50 that they didn't need.

- Failure to make top games 100% exclusive, as Gears of War, Halo 2, Bioschock and other so called 'exclusive' Xbox 360 games appear on the PC, and tend to be much better on the PC. More maps, mods,and the use of a keyboard and mouse to name just a few. Imagine if Gran Turismo 5 or Mario Galaxy was available for the PC. That shows just how pathetic the 360 'exclusives' are.

- Hyping up the most over-hyped, over-rated game in the history of gaming, Halo, just to sell consoles.

- Releasing games under the genre 'RPG' and 'ACTION' when in reality they are first person shooters (FPS). Example : Bioschock, Mass Effect

- MS Paying Paramount $150,000,000 to drop blu-ray support just to prolong a format war that bluray was winning 3-1 just so you can slow and hopefully stop HD discs progression to the mainstream so you can institute HD movie downloadsand test VC-1 codecs on HD-DVD

- Supporting Toshiba and releasing a HD-DVD drive for the 360 just to make Sony's life miserable

Xbox 360 and Microsoft is therefore found GUILTY of the above infractions of the law. All Xbox 360 core, premium and Elite systems are to be gathered at holding stations across the world, to be collected and brought to a landfill in China to be crushed and burried.

The Xbox 360 is hands down the worst video game console ever built. If it weren't for the mild success of the original Xbox and the lack of competition from Sony and Nintendo during the '05 holiday season the Xbox 360 would have gone the way of the Dreamcast.

Sadly enough, because it had a 1 year head start on it's only rivals, millions of unsuspecting buyers purchased the worst console in the history of gaming.

Playstation97

You are right!