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Why was the Xbox 360 worst console made?
dave_windows
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I dont mean in such of gaming because it had a awesome library but how it was built seems just poor.
Way back before its debut you had a ton of consoles SMS, Megadrive, NES, Super Nintendo, Playstation, PS2, 3DO, Sega CD, Xbox and I dont recall ever hearing in the news about any hardware problems.
Then you have the Xbox 360 upon its release news came out about hardware failing causing you to get the RROD (Red Rings of Death), obviously to do with something over heating. So they did this 3 year warranty on the console and released a more newer model to fix stuff like this but even so you heard about it still happening.
On the Sony side you had the PS3 and I didnt hear one bad thing about the hardware failing. So now we are on current generation with the Xbox One & PS4 and its been out for a couple of years and theres not really been anything in the news about any bad stuff.
So why was the Xbox 360 so poorly made?
Way back before its debut you had a ton of consoles SMS, Megadrive, NES, Super Nintendo, Playstation, PS2, 3DO, Sega CD, Xbox and I dont recall ever hearing in the news about any hardware problems.
Then you have the Xbox 360 upon its release news came out about hardware failing causing you to get the RROD (Red Rings of Death), obviously to do with something over heating. So they did this 3 year warranty on the console and released a more newer model to fix stuff like this but even so you heard about it still happening.
On the Sony side you had the PS3 and I didnt hear one bad thing about the hardware failing. So now we are on current generation with the Xbox One & PS4 and its been out for a couple of years and theres not really been anything in the news about any bad stuff.
So why was the Xbox 360 so poorly made?
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They decided what they wanted the console to look like first and THEN had to squeeze the componants inside. It simply got too hot in there and melted vulnerable parts of the machine.
They did fixes along the way, but it wasn't properly solved until the Xbox 360 S came along.
PS3 was far from perfect though. It had a similar issue, but nowhere near as widespread.
Older consoles were nowhere near as complex, generated far less heat and had fewer, if any, moving parts. That's why they were so much more reliable. The price of progress.
360 wasn't the only console to suffer technical problems though, PS3 suffered with the similar but less popular YLOD fault which would have been seen as a big problem had it not been massively overshadowed by the 360 RROD problem.
Also PS1 suffered disc reading issues, I remember it been said people had to turn the console upside down to get around the issue.
The phat ps3s suffered from yellow light of death which is similar to the 360 red ring of death.
Not sure if ps3 slim had same issue i never had any issues with both my ps3 slim and my xbox 360s.
I never had that issue and I was on my PS1 every day upon release up to after the PS2 had been out for 2 years. I still have the old PSX with the open top the big bulky one.
Sorry, but I can't believe they knew there was a problem when they released the system.
They launched in November 2005, but the problem didn't become apparent until August the next year. Even then, they didn't know what was causing machines to fail. It was May 2007 before they realised how widespread it was and they launched the warranty programme which would go on to cost them $1 billion.
Wow I guess you have high up connections within Microsoft, or just blatantly making up comments?
But once Microsoft discovered that this was a wide spread issue they upped the warranty to 3 years, from what I remember this more that Sony did.
It was costly for MS so I think all future hardware will be fairly sound, so good result in the end.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUODlNffWmU
The PS3 did indeed have the same issue, but let's not pretend that the 360 gained more publicity due to the problem having a catchy name. The failure rate of the 360's when they first came out was ridiculous, i don't know of one person that didn't have RROD with their first Xbox 360. They had over 50% failure rate by 2009, the PS3 failure rate was nowhere near that number.
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7832ca91df1f088822d97cf0451b47d0-650-80.jpg
That's what Microsoft want you to believe. I think they knew all along.
They should have replaced all of the Xbox consoles that had the fault, all the warranty did was mean you got a console for 3 years and ended up having to buy a new one. They weren't fit for purpose.
Never mind people who had the large version. The slim one seems unappealing that you dont have a portable Hard Drive.
Is it true your saves are locked to that hard drive?
I remember reading ages ago about how you couldnt take your hard drive round a mates because the saves were tied to your console so if you tried it in another xbox it wouldnt let you use the saves?
Why did ones that were fixed then get the rrod again then?
I think this is the main reason MS made the Xbox One so large as they didn't want to take a chance on console cooling this time.