as it seems now, it plays as well if not better than a ps3 in certain cases
It's online service is probbably one of the greatest online gaming services
it will be linking vista, cell phones, and 360s all together
if you ask me, thats pretty reliable for now and the future of the 360
SuperIntendent
If you ask me, none of the things you mentioned have anything to do with being reliable.
I like the 360, but I also believe it is the most unreliable console right now. Check the other topic where there is a poll about people's 360's breaking: yesterday at one point only 57% said their's had no problems so far.
you are right, many Xbox 360 are breking. But you have to think that all people compaining here are people with a broken 360, thnk how many are not complaining about it. I guess 2% of the consoles are broken, but luckly, microsoft responds well...
as it seems now, it plays as well if not better than a ps3 in certain cases
It's online service is probbably one of the greatest online gaming services
it will be linking vista, cell phones, and 360s all together
if you ask me, thats pretty reliable for now and the future of the 360
miniduck
If you ask me, none of the things you mentioned have anything to do with being unreliable.
I like the 360, but I also believe it is the most unreliable console right now. Check the other topic where there is a poll about people's 360's breaking: yesterday at one point only 57% said their's had no problems so far.
well he shoulda said hardware wise...unreliable doesn't just mean hardware guys, it also can mean where you will be putting alot of your time and money towards. and giving it a bright future can give it a reliable system to buy knowing it can only get better.
as it seems now, it plays as well if not better than a ps3 in certain cases
It's online service is probbably one of the greatest online gaming services
it will be linking vista, cell phones, and 360s all together
if you ask me, thats pretty reliable for now and the future of the 360
miniduck
If you ask me, none of the things you mentioned have anything to do with being reliable.
I like the 360, but I also believe it is the most unreliable console right now. Check the other topic where there is a poll about people's 360's breaking: yesterday at one point only 57% said their's had no problems so far.
Yes, but people with their 360 working well are not going to hand around forums saying "my xbox is fine", they are playing it. Which is not the case of people with broken 360s...
I bought a 360 at launch. I thought by now I'd be safe until just a few days ago I got the three red lights. Also I got a Wii, it has never frozen in a game or in the menus. Even though it's graphics are garbage it is the most reliable.
MS isnt known for producing well made...anything, so its no surprise, what is suprising is people keep on sending them back to be fixed time and time and time and time again. Just insanity.teebeenz
I work at a game store, and it definetly seems that way (about the defect rate). I bought a 360 knowing about the inherit risk, yet mine so far has turned out perfect. Other systems have turned out much worse it seems........
i would say no because the 360 has the best library of games to come in the future and a great online service but the red ligts of death are the only setbacks that i see
ah leaving negative comments about M$ on a 360 board is ok as long as you use bigger words than the people who leave negative about you.Arsenal140
You can leave negative MS comments anywhere, theyve got plenty of thumbs in pies. But in a thread about the issues MS products have in reliability, such as the 360 in this case, is more than warrented, not to mention needed. To many are blind to MS's plans.
WHO CARES!! mine has worked fine, since i bought it 3 months after the launch. people make a huge ordeal out of it and its honestly just old now.DesmondPills
You'd be surprised how noone cares about how yours works. This is a major issue for many people. They don't want to buy a system and have it crap out on them in a few months.
I would know, this is one of the reasons why i haven't bought a 360, and i'm not about to buy a warranty for it either.
[QUOTE="Arsenal140"]ah leaving negative comments about M$ on a 360 board is ok as long as you use bigger words than the people who leave negative about you.teebeenz
You can leave negative MS comments anywhere, theyve got plenty of thumbs in pies. But in a thread about the issues MS products have in reliability, such as the 360 in this case, is more than warrented, not to mention needed. To many are blind to MS's plans.
'Microsoft isnt known for producing well made....anything' a direct swipe at the 360....i notice you were defending the PS3 earlier aswell......a troll perhaps
the 360 is the most unreliable in malfunction wise...but everything else makes up for it....and i dont mind waiting a few weeks ,if mine malfunctions which it hasnt yet, as long as all the great games keep coming and the online system is a blast.....and all u have to do is take a little more care of it....keep it in the open let it recive air and make sure not enouf dust gets on it.
Microsoft isnt known for producing well made....anything' a direct swipe at the 360....i notice you were defending the PS3 earlier aswell......a troll perhapsArsenal140
[QUOTE="Arsenal140"]Microsoft isnt known for producing well made....anything' a direct swipe at the 360....i notice you were defending the PS3 earlier aswell......a troll perhapsteebeenz
Time for you to look at the threads topic again.
Ok so ill admit take the topic invokes trolls...that doesn't make it any better or any more just
I say it is definitely the most unreliable. I'm on my third. I also post on a non-gaming tech site. A bunch of us have 360s as well. Way more than half of us have sent our 360s in for repair. It's an awesome console, but built like crap.
Out of interest, I'd really like to find out what makes the consoles go dead. I heard that it's made to freeze and become unplayable if it goes above a certain heat threshhold so it can't permanently damage itself. While it sounds reasonable actually, I'm pretty sure it's not the main case. 360s shouldn't be assembled in Mexico.
Out of interest, I'd really like to find out what makes the consoles go dead. I heard that it's made to freeze and become unplayable if it goes above a certain heat threshhold so it can't permanently damage itself. While it sounds reasonable actually, I'm pretty sure it's not the main case. 360s shouldn't be assembled in Mexico.mouthforbathory
Seems to be a combo of a drive which doesnt hold onto the disks correctly, a low quality solder used for the wrong things and a lack of protection for power variations.
[QUOTE="mouthforbathory"]Out of interest, I'd really like to find out what makes the consoles go dead. I heard that it's made to freeze and become unplayable if it goes above a certain heat threshhold so it can't permanently damage itself. While it sounds reasonable actually, I'm pretty sure it's not the main case. 360s shouldn't be assembled in Mexico.teebeenz
Seems to be a combo of a drive which doesnt hold onto the disks correctly, a low quality solder used for the wrong things and a lack of protection for power variations.
The lack of a locking mechanism in the DVD drive is old news (it's what causes the scratch rings), but I was talking about the freezes. Yeah the DVD drive problem is the reason why no one should ever run their 360 while vertically oriented.
While I still think it is the best console of this generation, I would have to agree, it's definitely the least reliable. While mine still runs, I've had it freeze on me several times and none of the consoles I've ever owned did that.
yes absolutely. the 360 is by far the most unreliable console of this generation. i don't see any ps3 or wii "post here if you got the red lights of death" threads with post counts buldging at the seems.
my 360 gave me disk read errors on the second day of me playing the new system with a new copy of gears in it... pretty unreliable if you ask me. it freezes when i play r6 and oblivion and i've gotten 3 disk read errors playing dead rising in the past 3 days.
i don't care whether you're console is working well or not... the manufactering quality and the design quality is not as good as that of the ps3 and wii. the games are better though... but thats a different story.
I can understand how PCs perform differently from others due to hardware configuration and third party software, etc., but consoles are all suppose to be the same, at least regional wise, right? How would one person have problems with their XB360 and another doesn't, in the U.S. for example? All downloads and games are approved by Microsoft, correct?
So that means like 95% of the consoles sent out are reliable. I'm not a math major or anything but that seems pretty reliable to me. Hell if I could hit a baseball .950 of the time I wouldn't be sitting here typing this post...I'd be rolling in money and using x360s as shoes
I would say it is. I don't know anyone who hasn't had some sort of problem with their 360. Mine is still playing, but it glitches and freezes a lot, which it's done almost since I started playing it.
So that means like 95% of the consoles sent out are reliable. I'm not a math major or anything but that seems pretty reliable to me. Hell if I could hit a baseball .950 of the time I wouldn't be sitting here typing this post...I'd be rolling in money and using x360s as shoesYourLastDay86
Well, the issue with the consoles lack of protection from dirty power is in all units, so if you have dirty power you will run into issues.
Terms of games, god no. Terms of the console itself working. . . Hit or miss. My console has been doing great since I got it back in Feb 06. Then it started to gradually get worse. Already (half) ate my GeOW, and practically devoured Crackdown. Good thing it was Blockbuster's Crackdown. :P
It def is. How can anyone say its not??? Theres a whole forum on broken 360s and theres more than a few posts in there too. Go to amazon even and see how many reviewers say theirs have broke...I know its all ps3 fanboys...RIGHT
360 has the games, but it needs to fix its hardware. Its a joke that the Elite didnt have a smaller chip. Now we can pay 479 for red lights with a black background.
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