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11 Design Mistakes of the Xbox 360
An anonymous reader writes "FiringSquad.com has posted an article discussing 11 design flaws of the Xbox 360, ranging from gaming to Xbox Live Marketplace issues." From the article: "Mistake #2: No MSN Music - I'm as much of a fan of DRM as everyone else (which is to say I don't like it), but with Microsoft already charging gamers for Xbox Live Gold support, it would have been possible for Microsoft to offer discount service "bundles" allowing you to buy unlimited subscriptions to the MSN Music library at rates less than you would have to pay for Napster or Rhapsody. Gamers would have had an opportunity to get music cheaper and add one extra weapon in the console battle against Sony." I'm not so sure some of these are that big a deal. I'm more than a little glad the 360 has no web browser.
Gee, only 11?
Actually, there's only one.
The X-Box 360 clearly has heat management issues in some models (not most, but the early scuttlebut seems to be that it's more than one would expect.)
The author goes on some weird rant, based on the one and only 360 he has access to, speculating that other people's reports about overheating power supplied must be bullshit because his problem happened to seem to be with the CPU and/or graphics card.
So, why 10 more "problems"?
So you will have to load 10 more pages to read this useless "article." Nobody gives a fuck that there's not web browser built in to this game console (just like there's none in any other major console on the market), but you will need to load ad after ad to discover that such nitpicks are the best this joker can come up with.
Pathetic.
(Disclaimer: I don't own a 360, and won't unless or until there's a better selection of games available for it.)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
How is this MSN music thing the author mentions a DESIGN flaw?
After all, it could be added to XBOX 360's via an update if MS decided to do it. I figure many things will be added over the lifespan of the 360.
Mistake #11: No pressure sensitive face buttons
I disagree this is a mistake. Most games don't make use of this feature because for the user, there is little feedback regarding what is going on. How exactly do I push the face button half-way down? 1/4 way? All the way? I can't, really. I can just mash it with my thumb, and hope that I am getting what I want.