27th July 2003, 10:19 PM
That's the thing, I've never seen such an unusual grouping of sheer bad luck as I've seen here. I mean, all 3 current gen systems launched with disk reading flaws (I had to get both my GCN AND XBox replaced farily soon after I got them for instance), but oddly enough, rather than the usual MS probs I'm used to hearing about from my friends (seems I'm the only one amongst us that had to replace my GCN, though I'm not the only one HERE, like lazy and LL who also bought the system first day), a lot here only had problems with their PS2. Odd, since as I said, I've never had a problem with mine, and a good number of my friends haven't had problems either, except one, but that person got it first day. Oh, don't forget how Sega's Dreamcast did, and the PS1 before that's first model, actually first couple models, were also faulty. To be honest I don't think Sony did any worse than the other companies with thier launch systems (though MS's launch in Japan, with the systems that actually damaged the games? that's certainly the WORST launch yet...)
I find it funny, and kinda sad, that not a single optical disk based console can come out without having horrible reading errors in the first batch that need addressing. I mean, shouldn't this be the kind of thing the big companies TEST for? Instead, countless people need to get repairs. I also find it kinda odd that people would be having problems with the newer PS2 models, since that's one I happen to have without error. I think it's very possible they are using the vertical stand feature of the system, even though Sony has pretty much stopped advertising it entirely since just like every single vertical stand optical drive before, and in fact after it to a point, have the exact same dealigning problem it has, and thus Sony should have never even said it can do that in the first place. I think Sony managed to kill it's own system, even the updated ones that don't skip on horizontal mode, for including such a feature. This is the harm that advertising can do, actual physical harm, when it gets out of control.
I find it funny, and kinda sad, that not a single optical disk based console can come out without having horrible reading errors in the first batch that need addressing. I mean, shouldn't this be the kind of thing the big companies TEST for? Instead, countless people need to get repairs. I also find it kinda odd that people would be having problems with the newer PS2 models, since that's one I happen to have without error. I think it's very possible they are using the vertical stand feature of the system, even though Sony has pretty much stopped advertising it entirely since just like every single vertical stand optical drive before, and in fact after it to a point, have the exact same dealigning problem it has, and thus Sony should have never even said it can do that in the first place. I think Sony managed to kill it's own system, even the updated ones that don't skip on horizontal mode, for including such a feature. This is the harm that advertising can do, actual physical harm, when it gets out of control.
"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)