Posted on 11/23/2005 6:44:09 AM PST by Petronski
The story is stupid. I've only been a gamer for a short time, but even I remember that most consoles have a few problems at launch. If a few bad units get out the door out of hundreds of thousands, I don't see a problem.
Especially with the story coming from Slashdot, as it appears to be a Microsoft hating site anyway.
I played it at Sams Club to see what the hype was about and if I was not a playstation guy I would be *REALLY* tempted to buy one its an amazing system. That being said I wish the crash screen was blue ;)
Ummm, if anyone from Microsoft is reading this, could you please develop more games like Tetris? As a female, I don't really go for the complicated games that involve every button on the controller. Give us something simple yet challenging, with a high level of playability. Us girls are gamers, too!
BTW have you seen this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/23/xbox_blaze/
An Anglesey woman was pulled unconscious from her house by two strangers after succumbing to smoke generated by a faulty Xbox.
Stuart Ward and Robert Johnson ran from a pub in Llanfairpwll to find the unnamed victim's house engulfed in thick, black smoke and resembling "the Black Hole in Alton Towers" as Ward later put it to the local Daily Post.
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Inside were the woman and her father, who had rushed to the scene in response to a call from his daughter before she was overcome. Ward recalled: "We shouted 'Is anybody there?' The next thing the father upstairs answered 'Yes, I'm upstairs'. We shouted 'Anybody else in the house, we can't see.'
"We put some coats over our mouths and ran upstairs. Robert and I were swearing and the father was shouting 'My daughter's here!'. We were going on our hands and knees - that's how dark it was. You couldn't see your fingers if you put them in front of your eyes.
"We felt our way around the darkness. We found her and dragged and carried her down the stairs and outside. She was going in and out of consciousness."
Johnson added: "We could only feel our way about. The father was stumbling around. He couldn't find his daughter. We found her on the floor.
"I tried to get her on my shoulder but it was impossible. She was in a pretty bad way."
Happily, though, the woman made a full recovery after hospital treatment.
Anglesey fire and rescue spokesman Dave Evans confirmed the fire was caused by a "fault in an Xbox game machine" left on standby. Back in February, Microsoft recalled 14.1m Xbox power cables shipped into Europe before 13 January, 2004 and in other territories before 23 October, 2003, as we previously reported. MS admitted to "30 or so reports from users suffering minor burns, singed upholstery or scorched carpets as a result of power lead malfunctions". ®
Don't new gaming systems always have these problems?
Ummm Starting a house fire? No I cant say its reasonable to give gaming console manufactures a pass on that one... But to be fair MS did do a recall on the units..
my god, the matrix has been unleashed! What is deju vu, isn't.
Never buy the first ones made (but I suppose somebody has to do it...).
Am I that out of touch?
Microsoft putting out half arsed products well before beta testing is complete (or sometimes even started)??!!?? Tell me it isn't sooooo. Oh well. SP2 for XP when it first came out had about a 30-50% kill rate for OSs, no surprise. A week or two later they finally solved that little issue.
Problem is, Microsoft considers the first adaptors to be part of the beta testers, except really stupid ones who actually pay for the beta version of the product.
The same reason someone would buy a brand new car and instantly loose 10-20% of its value over searching a bit and buying a 1-2 year old car, still under warrenty for a hell of a lot cheaper. A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Yeah! More business for the Revolution. :)
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