Xbox One: The nightmare begins

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After encountering the red ring of death early on during the Xbox 360 life cycle, and knowing the disc read errors of the PS3... I knew not to rush into getting a system right away in this generation of gaming.

Wow, how many different people is that?! The PS4 linked in the video was funnier though!

I now feel better about my decision to ignore the Xbox One and PS4 until they have been in service for a year or so. Neither currently has any offering without which I can not continue to live a reasonably happy and questionably productive life.

Yup, could have seen that coming a mile away.

I'm happy enough to wait a while before getting another games console ; and also perfectly happy for other people to take the hit from the first wave or two of broken or poorly designed consoles while they conveniently bring down the price of the console through mass purchasing in the meantime.

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I'll bet that lots of imprudent parents get their over-indulged children these new systems for Christmas... only for them to break shortly afterwards.


Now, please excuse me... I'm off for a go on my (perfectly working) PS3... LOL ! !!

sick listening to whiny yanks bitching, us euros have to wait till next week just to get our hands on the PS4 with fewer perks.

We don't get the 30 days of Playstation plus thrown in.

Those sounds from the disc drives make me put my face in my hands. Flashbacks, man...

it sounds like it puts cool looking trenches in the side of your discs.

These things are getting failures already?

Ahhhh.... I was rather hoping this would happen. This is going to amuse me to no end, it is.

I warned people that the xbox one would be sh*t wrapped in plastic.

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Gee, nobody saw this coming at all, this is completely new for microsoft, I mean, they put so much effort (not) into this "all in one" (pile of crap) system, and nobody thought that it would fail so bad after the 360 did"
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I rest my case, internet and xbox fanboys everywhere *takes a bow*. Playstation wins, yet again. Not that there was really any doubt, but I mean if people honestly expected better than this from microsoft after the epic 360 fail rate, then they're crazy, seriously. Track record speaks for itself, microsoft doesn't need to worry about competition, they're taking themselves out of the gaming business just fine.

And I have to say, I feel sorry for the poor fools who are going to rave for the next xbox, because seriously... this is the second console in a row that microsoft has produced that has a crappy performance and if anyone thinks microsoft is going to get lucky on number 3, they're asking for their money to be wasted, no joke. Once was enough for me to wake up and smell the circuits frying in microsoft's brain trust, how long will it take others to figure out that microsoft has become craptastica? I bet if we take all the money that microsoft has made on the crappy systems they've produced (note, just the ones that have failed), we'd be able to fix the economy. I wish that was a joke, but sadly it might be accurate.

Don't they lose money on every console produced?

However, if Sony and Microsoft had never made their 'crappy consoles' in the first place, then the economy would never have seen the no doubt generous VAT tax boost from all of the people purchasing those consoles (and games for those consoles, and peripherals) as new consumer goods.

Not necessarily, the only people actually losing money is the consumer, because we're paying a base price for a product that doesn't perform the way it's supposed to, so then we have to spend yet more money to fix it or send it in (like 360's before this), which often leads to spending an individual cost of over $100, and when that doesn't cut it, we're spending yet more money for another system, once again at the base price.

So, let's say the base price is: $600
But it breaks down, so you have to send it in (if 360 is any indication) $100
But then that one doesn't work either and it's used, so you buy a new one $600

Already at a bare minimum the consumer has spent in excess of $1300
Since the baseline for this construct is the xbox 360, which has sold over 80 million systems worldwide, and the estimated fail rate was stated at one point to be about 1/3, that's roughly 26 million consumers worldwide spending at least, or more than $1300 and that's if they owned only two.
So multiply $1300 and 26 million and you get a basic idea of what has been gained on bad products.
And unless they're losing billions and billions of dollars making them (doubtful since they'd go out of business with one bad turn), they're most likely making a profit at our expense.

Now, granted, not all 360's had such a bad fail rate and this is a rough model so it doesn't account for time, but you get the idea. You could probably at most, cut the final profit in half, from this model, to account for time, and maybe 1/4 from that because of slight price drop. But once again, you get the idea.

If there are any mathematicians who could give us all something better than a construct based on current numbers vs. old fail rates, I'd greatly appreciate it, thank you for adding if you do.

lol a decent point, though if there's one thing I've learned about consumerism it's that there's always a product that is created to replace the ones that are lost, largely due to demand for a product, and then the whole process starts again.

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/11/22/daily-reaction-ps4-and-xbox-one-launch-failure/

The "Farmer's method" still works! (I.e., hit the machine) Some things never change...
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The beatings will continue until morale improves!