Crash reports hit Xbox 360

CNET ^ | 11/24/2005 | Reuters

[rs79bm]

That's the first time I've heard of a Microsoft product crashing. Hmm..........

[Termite_Commander]

I snicker at Xbox and continue my hopeless and stubborn support of Nintendo.

=)

[ArtyFO]

They loaded the programs from a Sony disc.... uh oh.

[Essie]

My kids have been playing it, and it's fine so far. They really like the graphics.

[Grig]

Some people have reported that if you increase the airflow around or over the power brick that the problem goes away. Either put a fan blowing on it, or balance it over the top of an open box so there is airflow all around it.

[BradyLS]

This is why I don't play video games or watch TV. There just ain't THAT much fun to be worth the hassle.

[Tamerlane]

MS makes crap folks want to buy. My son was at the launch in the desert and managed to get two of the things for $850. Turned around and sold them both on Ebay for $2,500 on Wednesday.

Capitalism is wonderful.

[Zack Nguyen]

I snicker at Xbox and continue my hopeless and stubborn support of Nintendo.

Ah, a little Tecmo Bowl for you?

[birbear]

The problem is the more sophisticated and interactive something is, the more the public can screw it up.

It's only cost feasible to test for x amount of bugs, for y amount of months with z amount of employees.

At some point you have to introduce the product to market, and then quell the ineveitble tide of bugs that you never thought of having to reproduce.

I've owned a number of MSFT products over the past 20 years. I've never had the problems that some people claim that they've had.

But then, I'm not the type to go dinking around with things much anyway. Pretty much I use the stuff as designed. I configure things to my convenience but I don't tweak the hell out of the stuff.

The people who tend to have the most problems are the ones who tweak the hell out of their stuff.

Not saying MSFT can't do a better job on some products. Just saying that the "average" user doesn't experience the same problems that a "knowledgable" user experiences.

[Right Wing Assault]

Not design, sell, then work on the bugs.

Then, when the bugs are worked out, stop selling it and supporting it so you can release a new buggy system that you can practice debugging and start the cycle all over again.

[Right Wing Assault]

balance it over the top of an open box so there is airflow all around it.

That box will be incorporated into release 2, but expect a major price increase.

[irons_player]

You got to love that sweat shop produced software.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Never ever be the first to by anything made by MS. They seem to always release it when it's still pretty much a late stage Beta....

[MrsEmmaPeel]

My next PC will either be a Mac or running Linux.

Wait for the availability of the Intel Macs. Soon, very soon. I hear that the performance will blow you away. Lithe OS, too.

[mcmuffin]

so what the smoke tonight martin? La Gloria Cubana -- Mudero here...

Great smoke, (without the mud!) LOL!

As for me,it's La Gloria Cubana Glorias Extra Maduro!!!

p.s. what ever happened to the cigar ping list???

[martin_fierro]

There was just a ping today!

Did I leave you off the list?

[Safrguns]

Ping

[chae]

Yeah, I got ahold of 3 of them, posted on ebay right now, any Freepers want one, I'll sell mine cheap, only around $1,000.

[mcmuffin]

Please sign me up, and have a cigar!

[HHFi]

Or rather than wasting your time and rotting your mind, you could spend the same money at the book store.

Hee-hee! Tiptoeing quietly away now from the gamer flamers...