Wii U seems to be the most reliable console since the original Xbox and GameCube (those 2 things never fail).
Mostly true. The GameCube was very reliable. On the other hand the original Xbox was plagued by disc read error issues. I know the problem was rampant because I earned my beer money in college by fixing people's Xboxes.
The original Xbox had a very high failure rate for certain types of versions (for example, the original Xbox consoles that had Thompson drives were pieces of shit).
My enraged brother threw my GameCube against our concrete driveway when we had a fight once, and years later it still works flawlessly.
Yeah..it's funny how these same things come up every console launch and people act completely shocked and use it as a reason to trash a system. I would love it if electronic devices had a little more reliability right out of the gate, but this is just the world we live in. Parts are getting smaller, run at faster speeds, and generate more heat. TVs ship with dead pixels, cell phones have firmware glitches, etc. This is part of the risk of being a day one buyer.
Agreed. It's impossible to eliminate such things from happening. You can always send it in for a repair or return it.
Yeah...isn't that what I said? That's why it seems silly for people to be in an uproar about it. You're a day one buyer. You signed up for this.
Oh man I had completely forgotten the Thompson drives issues. I remember the diagrams online to see which disc tray you had to find out which drive was in your xbox.
Been there done that because I modded my original Xbox lol. Dude, upgraded hdd, SNES, N64 emulators and you know the ability of watching movies without buying their overpriced remote.
It all bit me in the ass though as I couldn't transfer over save data from the original Xbox to the 360 so I had to start the backwards compatible games all over again haha. doh
Crazy for expecting a 500 product to at least let get to the dashboard? Man I guess I expect too much
I know you're being sarcastic, but yes, that's kind of the situation we're in now. Ever since the PS2 every console not from Nintendo's had some kind of strange hardware issue at launch with varying degrees of severity. Those willing to buy on day one need to be prepared that things may not go perfectly.
I'm not even buying a next gen system for a year or two and even I know better than this. What percentage of Xbox One's do you think have issues? I'm willing to bet it's less than 5%. Is that unacceptable? If you expect 100% success rate, you're living in a dream world. Some people just got unlucky, and that's the way it goes. We all take turns getting shit on in life. And all products have issues. I promise you, Hoover vacuum cleaners has units that are DOA. It happens. It's the percentage of failures that matters.
I haven't had any issues. My day one update finished and then my Xbox told me there was a problem with the update so I should try again or check my network. I checked it and it was fine. I retried the update numerous times and it kept giving me an error. Then I turned the Xbox off and back on and it was perfectly fine. It picked up right where it should have been after the update process
That's funny cause I haven't even checked. I used my second controller the entire time. I'll have to check when I get home.
so I had to give my Xbox one to my youngest & both boys are playing now! But not me I've called around & no one has any Xbox ones and if they did , I still have to wait till my money's in the account , cuz I'm broke till then;( I feel your pain!
Very true. Fortunately, I still have a launch Xbox with a Thompson drive and it works like a charm *knocks on wood*
not sure if this helps, or if the source is reliable, but you might want to check your local bestbuy, come close to black friday, and throughout december for availability. they are apparently withholding stocks of it.Well I got screwed too. 1 out of 3, I had bought 3 of them at gamestop, one for me & one for each of my boys, well thank god mine & my oldest are fine. But my youngest sons, green screen of death , I was on chat with tech help from 10am till 230 & nothing. They said to ship it out , but I would have to put 500 down. I was like what? I just spent 2000 on 3. I'm tapped out. 4 reals credit cards maxed. Then I called gamestop & all I got was " it's a new system you have to deal with Microsoft, we can't help you" I was what !!! Then I spent 2 hours on hold with there corporate office & was able to take it back. Of cures they are all sold out, so I was able to have them refund me the money. But I just realized it will take up to 5 days to get it in my account
Mine did the exact same thing. Might be normal for first boot after patch.
