20th March 2008, 10:10 PM
It is weird. The original XBox had some issues at first but those were ironed away and my current XBox has worked perfectly for years. The 360 however has the worst quality control I've ever seen. I don't know how it happened but I think rushing to beat Sony to market had something to do with it. It's really rather shameful. Don't get me wrong. The 360 is great in terms of it's technical merits interface and XBox Live is a great service (as I've said, I have notes of complaint about those but they are minor compaired to some companies I could name). However, all of that is moot if the system won't last but a few months.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)