I want one too, on ebay I could get one for 1,000 with a extra wireless controller and a game of my choice, so im debating cause 1,000 is alot...and also im thinking cause its the 399.99 bundle pack, with already the harddrive and the wireless controller? Can you guys give me any feedback on that offer?
either you are out of your mind or 1000 dollars to you is like 100.
there will be enough 360s out by christmas. if you want one i'm sure you can get one by then.
Anyways, being a big fan of Halo, I've got to say I don't see the reason to let go of my box for a 360 until Halo 3 comes out (which, at this point, is never).
Also, the new console seems to have mad bug. Overheating, graphical issues with backwards compatibility (see www.highimpacthalo.org, it's like 2nd or 3rd post; One of the sites I favor for Halo tricking).
Yea. My opinion, wait for a revision and/or price drop.
While I have a general anti-MS bias, I don't feel these initial quality control problems are a major issue. Some are to be expected. If these problems get worse and keep appearing in later production then there may be serious problems.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
While I have a general anti-MS bias, I don't feel these initial quality control problems are a major issue. Some are to be expected. If these problems get worse and keep appearing in later production then there may be serious problems.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
What the hell is happening on eBay? They are going for INSANE prices. And at the same time I can go down and buy one for less than $500 at the local shop.
DId MS make a royally screw up sending enough our way while leaving the home marked dried out?
boy, I wish I was from a fucking dreamworld so I could go down and pick one up. Nobody around here will even give me a clue about when they may be getting a shipment in.
Got a chance to take the 360 for a spin at a retailer. The game? PDZ. WTF?? The graphics completely suck. I hope that's the publishers fault, because if that is supposed to be representative of the platform, it's going to be easy pickins for the PS3.
Got a chance to take the 360 for a spin at a retailer. The game? PDZ. WTF?? The graphics completely suck. I hope that's the publishers fault, because if that is supposed to be representative of the platform, it's going to be easy pickins for the PS3.
I doubt it is. I'd say a fair number of those games are done on some pretty tight schedules. I'm certain they'll improve.
I doubt it is. I'd say a fair number of those games are done on some pretty tight schedules. I'm certain they'll improve.
Well, you see - there lies the problem. They rush the games, they rush the release - what was the point? They have practically blown their first to market advantage.
Just had an interesting conversation with a GameStop employee:
me: "Do you have any xbox 360s"
them: "Nope, pre-order waiting list is 2 months"
me: "How is the quality on the unit"
them: "Not very good, I wouldn't order the first rev of any console - quite a few of our orders returned to Microsoft due to overheating and backwards compatibility problems"
The funny thing was that the person tried to convince me to pre-order a PS3 in Janruary right after advising me not to buy 1st rev hardware.
the disk format is not a huge advantage. 3 maybe 4 publishers max would take advantage of that disk format.
I remember reading about a company that was already saying one of their Xbox360 games was going to be 3-4 discs because there was no HD-DVD support. I can't remember exactly where I heard it. It might have been on the Gaming Steve podcast. But you have to remember that a lot of the Japanese developers LOVE to use prerendered FMV (Full Motion Video) clips inter-mixed with cutscenes that are rendered by the in-game engine. If they want these videos to look good on the highest end setup for the Xbox360, it's going to have to be 1080i video. That takes up a lot of space. If anything, this could alienate MS from some of the Japanese developers (at least some of the RPG ones). Yea, they could just make you change discs, but with Blu-Ray on the PS3 you don't have to. They may decide to go PS3 only to give their audience a better experience (no game interruptions to change discs).
Well, you see - there lies the problem. They rush the games, they rush the release - what was the point? They have practically blown their first to market advantage.
Everything that is run by suits is rushed to market. Windows is rushed to market, OS X.4 Tiger was rushed to market, video games (console or PC) are rushed to market. This isn't something that is necessarily just a console and/or Microsoft problem. Too many people want things right now, and they don't want to put in the time to make a quality product, so they try to release something that is 'good enough.'
According to Gaming Steve, MS rushed production on Perfect Dark Zero (They skipped over the 'qa testing' that they do on all XBox360 games before they allow them to ship) just to get it out as a launch title. I don't have an Xbox360 and PDZ so I can't comment on the quality, but I'm just trying to illustrate the point. Very few companies take the time and effort that companies like Blizzard take with their games. (Beta period for World of Warcraft lasted 1 year; They didn't like the direction that Ghost was going so they completely scrapped the project and started over from scratch rather than try to take the game and add on to it to push it out the door)
While I have a general anti-MS bias, I don't feel these initial quality control problems are a major issue. Some are to be expected. If these problems get worse and keep appearing in later production then there may be serious problems.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
I agree. Some of the people in here tend to have the "My Xbox works fine, so everyone saying they have a problem is a whiney sissy" syndrome. I see this all over the place. People assume that if they don't have a problem with someone that it's perfect and anyone that says it has problems is stupid. I have never had a problem with my PS2 or PSTwo, but that doesn't mean that all of the people that had lasers burn out, or PSTwo over-heating issues are 'over blowing things.'
Some of the people tend to forget that MS doesn't necessarily have a single supplier for all of their components. Sure for things like IBM and ATI chips they do. But less specific things like the power supplies may have parts from several vendors. Any of those vendors could have had bad production runs or shipments to Microsoft that come from a specific factory that had a bad run of capacitors, etc. Not only that it could just be a bad run of Xboxes from one of Microsoft's plants. Unless you have surveyed all XBox360's in existence, or at least a sampling of Xboxes from various geographical locations to ensure that you are getting a sampling from multiple shipments / factories / production runs, you can't claim to know if your perfectly working Xbox360 (and your friends for that matter) is an isolated case, or if the problems are isolated cases.
About the GameCube, I think there were some early problems. But I don't think that they were major. In either case, Nintendo has a better handle on creating consoles than Microsoft or Sony. They've probably worked out ways of getting them into production quickly without major issues over the years they have been in the industry. Possibly they work with the manufacturing people as the console is being designed to ensure that the manufacturing people have a handle on what will be expected ahead of time. Rather than just dumping it on them once the console is ready for production.
The difference between the digital video out of the PS3 and the analog video out of the 360 will also be huge - just look at the quality differences when we all moved from analog VGA to digital DVI on our computers, it will be the same improvement for game consoles.
Digital vs Analog won't be that much different. It has to do with the underlying technology. Digital just makes it so that the signal through the wire is less affected by interference. You can have full HD video through analog, but the content companies can't add a 'broadcast flag' or other DRM to that. I seriously don't think that digital vs analog will be the defining argument in the XBox360 vs PS3 debate.
You see this is the problem - this doesn't seem like your regular 1st run production problems - it seems a lot like they tried to shit this puppy out and do a world wide launch before christmas. You've got problems with power supplies, heating issues, controllers not hooking up, Xbox live crashing - games crashing. True, it's too early to tell the full impact, but it's a bit of a mess if you ask me. If it's such an isolated incident, then why don't they release numbers to prove it?
If the XBox360 were truely as fucked as you want us to believe, then there wouldn't be people that have XBox360's that are working without problems. Some of these problems might not even be design related, but just production problems or a shipment of bad parts. Remember that run of bad capacitors in some motherboards a couple of years ago? Did you blame the motherboard companies for 'trying to shit those puppies out?'
I'll admit that Microsoft probably rushed this out the door, but from your statements I'd expect to go to a store and see mountains of XBox360's behind the return desk. Somehow I don't thing this is the case. As far as number, Microsoft probably doesn't have the kind of numbers you are talking about. They probably don't feel that they need to release 'numbers to prove' something to a handful of bloggers and people bitching on forums.
We just have to wait and see what the full effects of this will be. Anything at this point is just idle speculation. And if you remember correctly, the Japanese release of the Playstation 2 was plagued with problems, but I don't think that the Playstation 2 turned out a failure...
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Again - you've got a console which is really just a 1.5 upgrade, it certainly doesn't help releasing games which are 1.5 upgrades as well. They are selling a 360, but people are getting a 180.
You also have to allow time for the developers to get used to the new APIs and the new technology. You're never going to see a release title the is able to leverage the full power of a gaming console. Give it 1-1.5 years before games start to utilize all of the power that the XBox360. The same goes for the PS3. I don't know about the Revolution though. Nintendo's first-party titles may be able to leverage a good portion of it's power since a lot of that is done in-house, but I suspect it will suffer the same problem (of needing time).
You also have to remember that these companies are over-promising what they will deliver, with the possible exception of Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft are both hyping up their consoles. I was disappointed at the last round of consoles after all of the hype about how ultra-realistic they would be. This doesn't mean that the consoles were failtures. It just means that people are going to end up realizing what the hype was and what the reality is after they finally get their hands on the consoles.
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Microsoft's biggest problem is that their image stinks - escpecially among their target audience. The last Xbox was a turd, and just a regular P.C. They have followed up with an equally hideous design - which looks more like a tampon than a gaming console. But their biggest weakness, is that they are a software company, not a hardware company - and the excessively buggy launch proves it. Selling a new console isn't that tough when there have been no updates for 4 or 5 years. And remember, the PS2 is almost 2 years older than the original Xbox. Lastly - Microsoft has to make money - they can't fuck the dog any longer. Otherwise, this may be the last Xbox. Should be pretty fun to watch - will the Xbox get "dreamcasted"? - time will tell, time will tell.
Playstation 2 was a money-loser for Sony when they first released it. It was only after they were able to refine their production processes that they turned that around. The fact that they are a software company has nothing to do with it. Microsoft designs excellent mice, there is no reason they can't do well in the console race. They may make mistakes and need to learn from them, but I don't see the 'they are software, and will always only be sofware' mentality that you possess. i agree that the XBox design was horrid, but there is nothing wrong with the XBox360 design. I'll admit that it's a question of personal taste, but it's not like the Playstation 2 is winning any beauty pagents either (I really like the PSTwo's design though mostly due to its size).
Yea, they could just make you change discs, but with Blu-Ray on the PS3 you don't have to. They may decide to go PS3 only to give their audience a better experience (no game interruptions to change discs).
The real irony here is that with the floating point ridiculousness the PS3 claims to offer, the engine renders are problably as good as any cutscene short of the highest-budget production.
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Originally posted by evazquez757
I want one too, on ebay I could get one for 1,000 with a extra wireless controller and a game of my choice, so im debating cause 1,000 is alot...and also im thinking cause its the 399.99 bundle pack, with already the harddrive and the wireless controller? Can you guys give me any feedback on that offer?
either you are out of your mind or 1000 dollars to you is like 100.
there will be enough 360s out by christmas. if you want one i'm sure you can get one by then.
no need to fork over that kind of cash.
Anyways, being a big fan of Halo, I've got to say I don't see the reason to let go of my box for a 360 until Halo 3 comes out (which, at this point, is never).
Also, the new console seems to have mad bug. Overheating, graphical issues with backwards compatibility (see www.highimpacthalo.org, it's like 2nd or 3rd post; One of the sites I favor for Halo tricking).
Yea. My opinion, wait for a revision and/or price drop.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
Originally posted by Xool
While I have a general anti-MS bias, I don't feel these initial quality control problems are a major issue. Some are to be expected. If these problems get worse and keep appearing in later production then there may be serious problems.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
yeh because it was a weak machine.=)
DId MS make a royally screw up sending enough our way while leaving the home marked dried out?
btw where is fucking dreamworld
Originally posted by Elixir
yeh because it was a weak machine.=)
On the contrary, its more apt to say the GameCube has a weak selection of games and a non-standard controller.
But it plays Zelda, which I'll keep buying until I die.
Originally posted by the cool gut
Got a chance to take the 360 for a spin at a retailer. The game? PDZ. WTF?? The graphics completely suck. I hope that's the publishers fault, because if that is supposed to be representative of the platform, it's going to be easy pickins for the PS3.
I doubt it is. I'd say a fair number of those games are done on some pretty tight schedules. I'm certain they'll improve.
Originally posted by Telomar
I doubt it is. I'd say a fair number of those games are done on some pretty tight schedules. I'm certain they'll improve.
Well, you see - there lies the problem. They rush the games, they rush the release - what was the point? They have practically blown their first to market advantage.
me: "Do you have any xbox 360s"
them: "Nope, pre-order waiting list is 2 months"
me: "How is the quality on the unit"
them: "Not very good, I wouldn't order the first rev of any console - quite a few of our orders returned to Microsoft due to overheating and backwards compatibility problems"
The funny thing was that the person tried to convince me to pre-order a PS3 in Janruary right after advising me not to buy 1st rev hardware.
Originally posted by Elixir
the disk format is not a huge advantage. 3 maybe 4 publishers max would take advantage of that disk format.
I remember reading about a company that was already saying one of their Xbox360 games was going to be 3-4 discs because there was no HD-DVD support. I can't remember exactly where I heard it. It might have been on the Gaming Steve podcast. But you have to remember that a lot of the Japanese developers LOVE to use prerendered FMV (Full Motion Video) clips inter-mixed with cutscenes that are rendered by the in-game engine. If they want these videos to look good on the highest end setup for the Xbox360, it's going to have to be 1080i video. That takes up a lot of space. If anything, this could alienate MS from some of the Japanese developers (at least some of the RPG ones). Yea, they could just make you change discs, but with Blu-Ray on the PS3 you don't have to. They may decide to go PS3 only to give their audience a better experience (no game interruptions to change discs).
Originally posted by the cool gut
Well, you see - there lies the problem. They rush the games, they rush the release - what was the point? They have practically blown their first to market advantage.
Everything that is run by suits is rushed to market. Windows is rushed to market, OS X.4 Tiger was rushed to market, video games (console or PC) are rushed to market. This isn't something that is necessarily just a console and/or Microsoft problem. Too many people want things right now, and they don't want to put in the time to make a quality product, so they try to release something that is 'good enough.'
According to Gaming Steve, MS rushed production on Perfect Dark Zero (They skipped over the 'qa testing' that they do on all XBox360 games before they allow them to ship) just to get it out as a launch title. I don't have an Xbox360 and PDZ so I can't comment on the quality, but I'm just trying to illustrate the point. Very few companies take the time and effort that companies like Blizzard take with their games. (Beta period for World of Warcraft lasted 1 year; They didn't like the direction that Ghost was going so they completely scrapped the project and started over from scratch rather than try to take the game and add on to it to push it out the door)
Originally posted by Xool
While I have a general anti-MS bias, I don't feel these initial quality control problems are a major issue. Some are to be expected. If these problems get worse and keep appearing in later production then there may be serious problems.
I'm stoked about Revolution though, and I don't recall reports of Game Cubes choking.
I agree. Some of the people in here tend to have the "My Xbox works fine, so everyone saying they have a problem is a whiney sissy" syndrome. I see this all over the place. People assume that if they don't have a problem with someone that it's perfect and anyone that says it has problems is stupid. I have never had a problem with my PS2 or PSTwo, but that doesn't mean that all of the people that had lasers burn out, or PSTwo over-heating issues are 'over blowing things.'
Some of the people tend to forget that MS doesn't necessarily have a single supplier for all of their components. Sure for things like IBM and ATI chips they do. But less specific things like the power supplies may have parts from several vendors. Any of those vendors could have had bad production runs or shipments to Microsoft that come from a specific factory that had a bad run of capacitors, etc. Not only that it could just be a bad run of Xboxes from one of Microsoft's plants. Unless you have surveyed all XBox360's in existence, or at least a sampling of Xboxes from various geographical locations to ensure that you are getting a sampling from multiple shipments / factories / production runs, you can't claim to know if your perfectly working Xbox360 (and your friends for that matter) is an isolated case, or if the problems are isolated cases.
About the GameCube, I think there were some early problems. But I don't think that they were major. In either case, Nintendo has a better handle on creating consoles than Microsoft or Sony. They've probably worked out ways of getting them into production quickly without major issues over the years they have been in the industry. Possibly they work with the manufacturing people as the console is being designed to ensure that the manufacturing people have a handle on what will be expected ahead of time. Rather than just dumping it on them once the console is ready for production.
Originally posted by e1618978
The funny thing was that the person tried to convince me to pre-order a PS3 in Janruary right after advising me not to buy 1st rev hardware.
Well you wouldn't be getting a 1st rev hardware. Sony is releasing it in Japan first in the spring.
Originally posted by e1618978
The difference between the digital video out of the PS3 and the analog video out of the 360 will also be huge - just look at the quality differences when we all moved from analog VGA to digital DVI on our computers, it will be the same improvement for game consoles.
Digital vs Analog won't be that much different. It has to do with the underlying technology. Digital just makes it so that the signal through the wire is less affected by interference. You can have full HD video through analog, but the content companies can't add a 'broadcast flag' or other DRM to that. I seriously don't think that digital vs analog will be the defining argument in the XBox360 vs PS3 debate.
Originally posted by the cool gut
Well you wouldn't be getting a 1st rev hardware. Sony is releasing it in Japan first in the spring.
You have a point, there were more bugs plaguing the Japanese release of the Playstation 2 than the North American release.
Originally posted by the cool gut
You see this is the problem - this doesn't seem like your regular 1st run production problems - it seems a lot like they tried to shit this puppy out and do a world wide launch before christmas. You've got problems with power supplies, heating issues, controllers not hooking up, Xbox live crashing - games crashing. True, it's too early to tell the full impact, but it's a bit of a mess if you ask me. If it's such an isolated incident, then why don't they release numbers to prove it?
If the XBox360 were truely as fucked as you want us to believe, then there wouldn't be people that have XBox360's that are working without problems. Some of these problems might not even be design related, but just production problems or a shipment of bad parts. Remember that run of bad capacitors in some motherboards a couple of years ago? Did you blame the motherboard companies for 'trying to shit those puppies out?'
I'll admit that Microsoft probably rushed this out the door, but from your statements I'd expect to go to a store and see mountains of XBox360's behind the return desk. Somehow I don't thing this is the case. As far as number, Microsoft probably doesn't have the kind of numbers you are talking about. They probably don't feel that they need to release 'numbers to prove' something to a handful of bloggers and people bitching on forums.
We just have to wait and see what the full effects of this will be. Anything at this point is just idle speculation. And if you remember correctly, the Japanese release of the Playstation 2 was plagued with problems, but I don't think that the Playstation 2 turned out a failure...
Again - you've got a console which is really just a 1.5 upgrade, it certainly doesn't help releasing games which are 1.5 upgrades as well. They are selling a 360, but people are getting a 180.
You also have to allow time for the developers to get used to the new APIs and the new technology. You're never going to see a release title the is able to leverage the full power of a gaming console. Give it 1-1.5 years before games start to utilize all of the power that the XBox360. The same goes for the PS3. I don't know about the Revolution though. Nintendo's first-party titles may be able to leverage a good portion of it's power since a lot of that is done in-house, but I suspect it will suffer the same problem (of needing time).
You also have to remember that these companies are over-promising what they will deliver, with the possible exception of Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft are both hyping up their consoles. I was disappointed at the last round of consoles after all of the hype about how ultra-realistic they would be. This doesn't mean that the consoles were failtures. It just means that people are going to end up realizing what the hype was and what the reality is after they finally get their hands on the consoles.
Microsoft's biggest problem is that their image stinks - escpecially among their target audience. The last Xbox was a turd, and just a regular P.C. They have followed up with an equally hideous design - which looks more like a tampon than a gaming console. But their biggest weakness, is that they are a software company, not a hardware company - and the excessively buggy launch proves it. Selling a new console isn't that tough when there have been no updates for 4 or 5 years. And remember, the PS2 is almost 2 years older than the original Xbox. Lastly - Microsoft has to make money - they can't fuck the dog any longer. Otherwise, this may be the last Xbox. Should be pretty fun to watch - will the Xbox get "dreamcasted"? - time will tell, time will tell.
Playstation 2 was a money-loser for Sony when they first released it. It was only after they were able to refine their production processes that they turned that around. The fact that they are a software company has nothing to do with it. Microsoft designs excellent mice, there is no reason they can't do well in the console race. They may make mistakes and need to learn from them, but I don't see the 'they are software, and will always only be sofware' mentality that you possess. i agree that the XBox design was horrid, but there is nothing wrong with the XBox360 design. I'll admit that it's a question of personal taste, but it's not like the Playstation 2 is winning any beauty pagents either (I really like the PSTwo's design though mostly due to its size).
Originally posted by pyr3
Yea, they could just make you change discs, but with Blu-Ray on the PS3 you don't have to. They may decide to go PS3 only to give their audience a better experience (no game interruptions to change discs).
The real irony here is that with the floating point ridiculousness the PS3 claims to offer, the engine renders are problably as good as any cutscene short of the highest-budget production.