Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts
|
|
|
||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
| Frequently Asked Forum Questions | |
|||
|
||||
|
|
|||
| ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| Search Older Posts on This Forum: Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts | ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| ||||
| From One of Those Stores' Employees... | |
| Posted By: Stevedroid <stevedroid@earthlink.net> | Date: 10/29/01 11:59 p.m. |
In Response To: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xbox (Morphius) I work at a certain video game retail store (which I can't mention due to the unlikely chance that someone working for the company could read this post...and then fire me) and we got our X Box demo unit about two weeks ago. I was actually a big X-Box supporter, being a PC buff and knowing that Microsoft does indeed know some things about games and peripherals, and also sharing a love for all things nVidia, I thought the console looked quite good. At first I was a bit un-impressed with the demo disc. It consists of a bunch of gameplay movies and one very short and very boring interactive demo of Munch's Oddysee. The movies were nice, but they were just movies. As far as the Munch demo, the graphics were good but not that amazing and the demo took nearly 30 secs to a minute to load and it's a very, very small level with not much going on. However, I kept my faith in the console, I told myself it was would have some great games and the loading time was probably due to bad writing of the demo disc. Unfortunately, after loading the first retail X-Box game we got in, Fusion Frenzy, the system is now kaput. Broken after two weeks of not very hard use the system fails to boot at all, no matter what game (or lack there of) is placed in the disc reader. I thought perhaps the game had some strange virus in it, but now similar reports have come in from other stores from our comapny in our area and they never loaded anything on the unit other than the original demo disc. Microsoft says that very few consoles are failing, about 1 in 100. Seeing some preliminary stats for our company I can say that the number is actually much closer to 3 in 10, getting worse and worse every day, we may soon have a nearly 50% failure rate. I'd like to believe it's just the demo units, but they're the same units from the first retail production run. I'd like to believe it was human error in how they were hooked up, but truth is that it was easy to hook up and if it was installed incorrectly wouldn't it fail to work right away? I'd like to believe our unit was used hard or beat up, but those X-Box demo units are like tanks compared to the demo units of the other consoles, you can't even get within 6 inches of the console itself...magnet theory doesn't work. I'm not a Microsoft hater, in fact I'm quite happy with the company and I absolutely love WinXP. Sadly though, I'm canceling my pre-order of the X-Box, I believe the hardware is simply faulty. They took complex PC components and congealed them into something defintely non-PC, a hard coded console that can't be fixed and can't be trouble-shooted by the user. I'll spend my $300 on a GeForce 3 card and hope that RTCW and Duke4 will hold me over until Halo is PC-released.
| |
|
| Replies: |
The HBO Forum Archive is maintained with WebBBS 4.33. |