Wow, those guys really slate the X-Box 360, it's nothing I've not heard before though.
It's funny really because as a kid I used to cry my eyes out when my Amstrad would crash or the games wouldn't load.
The Amiga crashed, PCs crashed, the rule was:- if it's got a keyboard it'll crash at some point, if it's got a joypad it won't. And then you just move on and accept it.
My 10 or so consoles that I own have rarely ever crashed, and if they did it was always the fault of the game not the console. Sure my PS1 lens wore out and so did my PS2 lens but each served me 7-8 years of constant daily usage. But with moving parts such as CD drives, of course they'll fail one day. The average PC drive as a comparison lasts me 2~4 years and those are used maybe like once a day to burn a new disk, copy some files. Or maybe not used in weeks, so they've no excuse for failing to read disks so quickly.
So in this respect, you've got to hand it to Microsoft though, they succesfully brought all the best features of Windows into the console world, bugs, shoddily tested software and unreliablity with the hardware.
The sooner Microsoft pull out of the console wars the better as far as I'm concerned.
It's funny really because as a kid I used to cry my eyes out when my Amstrad would crash or the games wouldn't load.
The Amiga crashed, PCs crashed, the rule was:- if it's got a keyboard it'll crash at some point, if it's got a joypad it won't. And then you just move on and accept it.
My 10 or so consoles that I own have rarely ever crashed, and if they did it was always the fault of the game not the console. Sure my PS1 lens wore out and so did my PS2 lens but each served me 7-8 years of constant daily usage. But with moving parts such as CD drives, of course they'll fail one day. The average PC drive as a comparison lasts me 2~4 years and those are used maybe like once a day to burn a new disk, copy some files. Or maybe not used in weeks, so they've no excuse for failing to read disks so quickly.
So in this respect, you've got to hand it to Microsoft though, they succesfully brought all the best features of Windows into the console world, bugs, shoddily tested software and unreliablity with the hardware.
The sooner Microsoft pull out of the console wars the better as far as I'm concerned.