Journal Journal: On the Xbox 360 Fiasco...
This made me laugh a bit.
"This actually surprises people? Hell, a friend of mine has gone through two Xboxes. Both of them made a horrible grinding noise, came up with an error, and scratched the living hell out of whatever disc was in 'em. Both then became unusable. Meanwhile, while the damn things did work, they locked up from time to time or displayed error messages of some sort while games were being played.
Now that the Suckbox 360 has been released, I expected a product that wasn't a 20 pound pile of garbage. It looks like they've yet to fix that 'garbage' part, that's for freakin' sure. You know, I almost hope this trend of crashing continues. It'll go to show the ineptitude of Microsoft's programmers and engineers, and hopefully teach them a hard lesson about rushing a product to market.
This is a Microsoft product. It WILL crash. End of story. I'll be waiting for the Nintendo Revolution, thanks."
Apparently, recounting personal experiences with a clearly inferior product and then implying that its successors will also suck, especially considering their producer's track record, is trolling. Maybe if I would've been standing outside Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM waiting to buy one of these pieces of shit, I'd have a bit more clout to voice my opinion about another one of Microsoft's failures.
I'm sorry, folks. There's a problem when presumably well over a hundred or more people are or could possibly be experiencing problems with a product, even if several thousand have already been sold. That's called a recurring defect, and is a problem that not only should but must be dealt with. Even if this is just a problem with heat management - it seems that may not even be the whole story, since it also occasionally crashes on startup or when you're fiddling with Shitbox Live - it is a problem, and one that should have been addressed before the product was even assembled in the factory. This is a classic case of, "Oops, we rushed it to market without testing it enough! Here, have some bugs!" Microsoft's M.O. in console form.
It's pretty stupid of a lot of folks out there to assume that just because this is a complex machine, it therefore has to be error prone. That's the kind of brainless bullshit dumbass reasoning that I'd expect from someone with pretty low standards as a consumer. Just because a machine is complex and mass-produced doesn't mean it therefore should be expected to be error-prone. If anything, that's a reason for the manufacturer and designers of a product like this to be even more careful, instead of rushing it to market like a bunch of morons. I mean, look at your automobile, if you own one. Compared to your computer, your car is a monstrously complex machine - and has computers inside of it! And yet if a certain line of cars had as high a rate of outstanding, operation impairing defects as the Shitbox 360, and they actually made it off the lot and then encountered as many problems as these consoles are having on day one of ownership, you can bet you'd have a lot of pissed off drivers - and a lot of pissed off car dealers. Just a few extra days of honest field testing could've yielded the same results that a good lot of folks seem to be reproducibly getting from this piece of trash on the same day they bought it. There's just no excuse for that.
As a consumer, I feel that it is not only my right but my duty to have high standards of the products that I purchase. If a product I buy doesn't work, I'll make sure someone hears about it. If the problem I encounter turns out to be common, that means there's something wrong with the product itself, not just one or two units. (Especially if by some polls that product appears to be %13 defective or otherwise fault-prone.) If I had actually bought this system and was blissfully unaware that its predecessor EATS DISCS AND CATCHES FIRE, I would have high expectations of it. If I then began to encounter reproducible errors, or better yet, consistant random errors, I would be rightfully upset. Folks, this isn't business as usual, even if it is just a temperature control problem. (It is unlikely that covers the scope of this issue.) This is upfuckery of a grand magnitude, some kind of obvious design flaw or flaws that I'm sure will be pinpointed before too long.
That said, I'm so, so sorry for trolling on the precious Shitbox 360. Maybe it was my choice of words, or maybe I just didn't use my funny voice. Apologies aside, here's a word of advice to anyone who reads this: If you're about to buy a 360, I suggest you do a 180 and just go right back home. Save your $400+ for something useful, or at least for a game console that works like it fucking should. And as for Microsoft, they can take the Xbox 360, rotate it 90 degrees, and forcefully insert it anally at a 180 degree angle, paralell to the original Xbox which my friends and I have come to know and loathe- er, I mean, love.
"This actually surprises people? Hell, a friend of mine has gone through two Xboxes. Both of them made a horrible grinding noise, came up with an error, and scratched the living hell out of whatever disc was in 'em. Both then became unusable. Meanwhile, while the damn things did work, they locked up from time to time or displayed error messages of some sort while games were being played.
Now that the Suckbox 360 has been released, I expected a product that wasn't a 20 pound pile of garbage. It looks like they've yet to fix that 'garbage' part, that's for freakin' sure. You know, I almost hope this trend of crashing continues. It'll go to show the ineptitude of Microsoft's programmers and engineers, and hopefully teach them a hard lesson about rushing a product to market.
This is a Microsoft product. It WILL crash. End of story. I'll be waiting for the Nintendo Revolution, thanks."
Apparently, recounting personal experiences with a clearly inferior product and then implying that its successors will also suck, especially considering their producer's track record, is trolling. Maybe if I would've been standing outside Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM waiting to buy one of these pieces of shit, I'd have a bit more clout to voice my opinion about another one of Microsoft's failures.
I'm sorry, folks. There's a problem when presumably well over a hundred or more people are or could possibly be experiencing problems with a product, even if several thousand have already been sold. That's called a recurring defect, and is a problem that not only should but must be dealt with. Even if this is just a problem with heat management - it seems that may not even be the whole story, since it also occasionally crashes on startup or when you're fiddling with Shitbox Live - it is a problem, and one that should have been addressed before the product was even assembled in the factory. This is a classic case of, "Oops, we rushed it to market without testing it enough! Here, have some bugs!" Microsoft's M.O. in console form.
It's pretty stupid of a lot of folks out there to assume that just because this is a complex machine, it therefore has to be error prone. That's the kind of brainless bullshit dumbass reasoning that I'd expect from someone with pretty low standards as a consumer. Just because a machine is complex and mass-produced doesn't mean it therefore should be expected to be error-prone. If anything, that's a reason for the manufacturer and designers of a product like this to be even more careful, instead of rushing it to market like a bunch of morons. I mean, look at your automobile, if you own one. Compared to your computer, your car is a monstrously complex machine - and has computers inside of it! And yet if a certain line of cars had as high a rate of outstanding, operation impairing defects as the Shitbox 360, and they actually made it off the lot and then encountered as many problems as these consoles are having on day one of ownership, you can bet you'd have a lot of pissed off drivers - and a lot of pissed off car dealers. Just a few extra days of honest field testing could've yielded the same results that a good lot of folks seem to be reproducibly getting from this piece of trash on the same day they bought it. There's just no excuse for that.
As a consumer, I feel that it is not only my right but my duty to have high standards of the products that I purchase. If a product I buy doesn't work, I'll make sure someone hears about it. If the problem I encounter turns out to be common, that means there's something wrong with the product itself, not just one or two units. (Especially if by some polls that product appears to be %13 defective or otherwise fault-prone.) If I had actually bought this system and was blissfully unaware that its predecessor EATS DISCS AND CATCHES FIRE, I would have high expectations of it. If I then began to encounter reproducible errors, or better yet, consistant random errors, I would be rightfully upset. Folks, this isn't business as usual, even if it is just a temperature control problem. (It is unlikely that covers the scope of this issue.) This is upfuckery of a grand magnitude, some kind of obvious design flaw or flaws that I'm sure will be pinpointed before too long.
That said, I'm so, so sorry for trolling on the precious Shitbox 360. Maybe it was my choice of words, or maybe I just didn't use my funny voice. Apologies aside, here's a word of advice to anyone who reads this: If you're about to buy a 360, I suggest you do a 180 and just go right back home. Save your $400+ for something useful, or at least for a game console that works like it fucking should. And as for Microsoft, they can take the Xbox 360, rotate it 90 degrees, and forcefully insert it anally at a 180 degree angle, paralell to the original Xbox which my friends and I have come to know and loathe- er, I mean, love.
