Crashing Xbox Kiosks

quannump writes "Gaming Age has an article up about some stores, including Toys R Us and Babbages, Xbox kiosk crashing at various places across the country. "Out of five stores that have playable demos within a ten mile area, only two have working units," says one Babbage's employee." It's funny because it's Microsoft. Get it? It's... oh never mind. Is DOA3 still planned as x-box only?

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Screw DOA3, what about Halo?

[cryptochrome]

It damn well better come out for the mac sometime in the near future...

Re:So, um...

[aussersterne]

The difference being that Newton was a great product which actually worked. The only two bad things people can generally name about Newton are a) the handwriting recognition, which was actually very good (better than anything for CE or Palm today) but first needed time to "learn" your handwriting and b) the infrared, which can't be blamed on Apple since it was implemented before current IrDA standards were even complete.

And by the Newton 2000/2100 series, these things were all fixed -- the handwriting recognition was actually good out of the box, and the device would then continue to learn even more, and software is available to allow Newton 2000/2100 machines to interoperate using infrared with, for example, Palm devices.

Newtons don't crash all the time, lose your data, or have a totally inelegant and mis-matched operating system for the task at hand. In fact, my Newton 2100 has *never* crashed on me in all the years I've used it, while a CE 2.11 HPC Pro I used for a few months crashed and required a hard reset almost daily, not to mention that the Newton's NOS 2.1 was incredibly well-designed as a PDA operating system while CE was so klunky it took lots of taps an arm movements to perform the simplest tasks.

Then there's the fact that Newton was way ahead of its time, a paradigm-shifter, a visionary device when it was first released and which the industry wouldn't fully understand and follow properly until years later, while XBox is just yet-another-game-console-with-optional-peripherals without an original idea in it.

Newton didn't fail on its own terms, it was in the black when it was killed. Maybe XBox is a lousy product (in fact, I think most people would bet on it), but don't compare it to the Newton.