Microsoft's hardware problems are well know. The company had to extend its warranty to three years on Xbox 360, and lost a billion dollars in the process. To this day, people still complain about the console's reliability and the so called "Red Ring of Death." A recent survey by magazine GameInformer found that 55 percent of respondents suffered through a 360 failure but Xbox Live and Xbox 360 director of product management Aaron Greenberg believes the hardware problems are now in the rear-view mirror at this point, since the company has continually made improvements on internal components.
Today, IndustryGamers received new survey data from SquareTrade, which claims to be the largest independent warranty provider in the world. The study compared the malfunction rates for all three consoles and found the Wii to be nine times more reliable than Xbox 360 and four times more reliable than PS3. That said, there has been significant improvement with Xbox 360 and the RROD problem. SquareTrade's data shows that the introduction of the "Jasper" chipset in late 2008 "has likely solved" the RROD problem.
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
OK so they are saying the failure rate is around 10% -_- Really?
Whats funny is most of the XDF will eat this up.
What about E74?
Also, just because it's going down doesn't mean it's any better after all Microsoft released a faulty product which everyone just accepts.
it great story for xbots.
you can accept gameinformer's informal and error prone survey's results, but not squaredata, a company that HANDLES warranty issues?
wow....the cult like attitude of the SDF is amazing
My 360 gave my Halo 3 game a real Halo of burn in on the disc due to my malfunctiong disc drive on my 360. I called Microsoft, and all they could tell me was I can *BUY* a replacement disc of Halo 3 for 20, and pay for a repair to my 360. I told the guy that my 360 had problems and I felt that Microsoft should at least give me a replacment halo 3 for free and repair my 360. All they could say is sorry sir, you have to pay... Like WTF!!! Never buying a 360 after that. Shame because I loved my 360... :(