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XBox Defects Draw Ire
jeffy124 writes: "An article at CNN indicates that the XBox is having problems with defects. But the defects aren't the problem, the issue is lousy customer support from Microsoft's repair contractors, which is really what's more annoying to those who got defective units. Customer support has been giving out conflicting advice and some customers are having their support records lost."
Yes, we should bitch at M$ right about now, but because of the fact that M$ has been outsourcing XBox's suport to a third rate customer support company. M$ is not doing the support nor the manfacturing of the XBox, blame M$ of being cheap.
kawai
Hats off to jeffy124, you're concise and summed up the whole article in a few lines. Now i wish i hadn't wasted my time actually reading the article!
--why?
Gee.... how original. A linux loving, Microsoft hating bunch of bitches talking about shit they know even less about than normal.... What a bunch of hypocrites. I'm sure Sony, Nintendo and Sega never produced anything EVER defective. Yeah... right.
This is just another example of how desperate Slashdot is "struggling" to wage a war they've alreadly lost.
LMControl
yep. it should. if it doesn't, tough, it's part of life. There is no reason to get all up in arms about it and start bitching to everyone you know about how bad the service is.
I once bought a Dell laptop and after a week the tilde key broke on the keyboard. They wanted me to pay quite a bit of money to have a $20 part replaced. I didn't pay it, I fixed it myself. Did I buy their product again? No. But I certainly did bitch and moan about it. That was a $3300 toy.
Remember, shit happens.
If you jump around to various gaming boards you will see endless amounts of people having problems with their XBox's .. Overheating, game freezes, controllers that stop working, etc ... Gamecube's have been almost flawless on all parts. You wont see any problems with Nintendo systems. Microsoft just screwed up and lost the war by putting a PC in a cramped box, and now they're paying for it. It's good to see Bill die.
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I own both a PS2 and a GameCube because in my opinion they are the only systems worth buying. i have played Demos on several games for the Xbox and found them all to mave very poor controllabillity and for me that is the most important thing of any game.
I do not care that Halo looks graphicly awsome i tried to play it and i could hardly walk around the room. I would much rather play Perfect Dark (N64) for five minutes then to Own Halo on an Xbox. Also the football game that microsoft makes is awfull and nothing like Madden or NFL 2K2. all the games made directly by microsoft have always sucked they sould go back to making Office and windows better and lay off the games.
I would love to own Halo but not on the Xbox i would like to play it on my PC as with most of the Xbox games. they are mainly PC games made into a console game. On the PS2 and Cube they have been making games for consoles for 15 years or more microsoft is just starting and SUCKS at it.
To me there are really no games for the Xbox that make me want to go buy one
For my GameCube i have
Suber Monkey Ball (VERY FUN My favorite)
Super Smash Brothers malee
Madden 2002
Pikmin
Waverace
For my PS2 i have
Twisted metal
Grand Theft Auto 3
Super Bust-A-Move
Final Fantasy X
I am a hard core Nintendo fan and have had every system since the NES so i guess you could call me a Nintendo bies. but around christmas i was thinking of buying one of the other systems for a wider variety of games. so i compared the Xbox and the PS2.
Before i even looked at the game selection i compared just the look and feel of the two systems. The PS2 had a nice feeling and easily controllabe controller and the console is about the size of a normal DVD player and looks very nice.
On the othe hand the Xbox controller is Much to big. it simply is not desined correctly for my hands at all it just did not feel right and the jewel buttons that it has are awful. the console is a Gigantic compared with the other two. It is the size of a PC tower and way to big for a gamming console, i really don't like how it looks eather it is trying to be to flashy with the big XBOX bubble thing in the middle and designed like a big X. I feel as thogh Microsoft is trying to program me into buying their product
They are both Equally pricend and both have a DVD player
then i noteced their game selection. since the PS2 had been out for a full year it odviously had more games than did thee Xbox. but i the large advantage to the PS2 is that it ans the hundreds of good quallity games for the PS1 i could play. I love final fantace and more so Grand theft auto 3. i saw no games that even came close on the Xbox that i would love so much
So in short THE XBOX SUCKS. I don't care about it's "better graphics" if it does not have good controllabillity. I think Nintendo and Sony will continue to peoduce great console games in the future and be far better then everthing that the Xbox can put out. I think that all the defects the Xbox has is due to the fact that it is not really a game console but a PC in a pretty box that you hook up to your TV and has a controller insted of a keybord and mouse. The PS2 and Cube are much better gamming CONSOLES and will outlast the Xbox in the future due to their loyal gammers that want the best games there is to have.
I had no idea how many Microsoft employees read this website. Man what a bunch of elitist creeps :). How's this, get over yourselves. Working for Microsoft is about as evil as working for a cigarette company. I'm sure those people love and support their product as well. Just because it's legal and immensly popular doesn't make it right, in fact mass appeal in any form (TRL, Coke, NFL) warants suspicion and investigation by Scooby, Shaggy and the whole Mystery Machine bunch.