When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn’t surprised.
The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD, or the “red rings of death” which flash when the console becomes inoperable.
A 40-year-old photographer, Szarek was a hardcore... (Read more)
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This is what I was worried about when Microsoft decided to release their console a year before Sony and Nintendo. They tried to get the jump on them, and it backfired massively. Even now, they're in too much of a rush to get the console sold, rather than making a quality machine. I mean, what can you expect from a company who gives us such things as Windows ME, Vista, Clippy, and now XBox360. It's absurd. If they keep rushing everything, they're going to end up like Sega, who finally got their act together with the Dreamcast, but it was too late. Nintendo is on their 5th-gen console, and they've always done moderately well to spectacular. They took their time before each release. Same with Sony. Microsoft: Just because you have billions of dollars in support doesn't mean you can afford to take short cuts. It's a road to disaster.
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