Given the Xbox 360 reputation of breaking down if you look at it funny, has anyone had a PS3 or Wii break down on them? I imagine this topic will go unreplied and disappear off the face of the earth as I've not heard of any problems with machines.
Ps3, display units yes but personal units no. Wii, I have heard of a few reports due to firmware updates botching the unit. Personaly I say turn off wii connect 24 as it runs your wifi unit 24/7 and it does make the wii hoter then normal. Most of the people I knew who had broken wii units are people who left wii connect 24 on (its default).
My Wii gets pretty warm on standby, but its perfectly stable it seems. The first firmware update took over an hour though!
im happy with my wii, i do have the connect 24 turned off, and its unplugged when not in use as it does get hot in standby, although i did have 1 of the wrist straps snap on me when i was being a bit over agressive with baseball (on the plus side i did get 10 homeruns!) to be honest ive hardly heard of anyone having problems with their wii, especially when compared to the 360
Seriously nothing can compare to the (to steal from john stewert) catastraf*** failure rate of 360 units. I mean sure I have a perfectly fine launch unit from japan but day by day i'm becomming more worried I will be SOL soon with my 360. Microsoft really needs to get it's firmware issues ironed out.
To be fair, the few people I know who have Japanese Xbox 360 units, I don't know anyone that has had problems (myself included...).
Which I find strange because I too have yet to have a problem with my japanese 360. Yet i've seen so many USA units break (we even had to replace one here on my team at work).
I have two wiis and they get hot yeah but none of them have screwed up yet. the firmware fuckups were when the wii first came out...havn't heard anything since. First thing I did was update my wii when i got it and the download was SLOW as shit. I'm assumming people were like "fuck this" and turned off their wii when it was updating the firmware.
@subbie: it's far beyond a firmware issue i m afraid. the X-frame's expansion on heating and subsequent cooling will crack the mobo eventually and make a mess on all existing 360s
Yeah, I could tell it was a slow DL because for the last 1\6th or so it went way quicker... ...But I have 3mbps internet :S its fast on my lappy?
I've had my 360 since last june and have no error on it at all. My wii also works fine. Though I think I should probably turn off wii connect 24 since theres no use for it atm.
Sadly that is not always the case. It might be true early on but not constant. Second the firmware has to download in full before it actualy flashes. Also i had a friend who broke his week a month ago on a firmware update sadly. so it still somewhat happens.
Demo units, most PS3 ones are always frozen or just off while Wii are always fine. Retail units I knwo nobody with a PS3 so I can't comment there but myself and all mate have Wii systems with connect 24 always on with no problems at all. Even our updates were completed in a matter on minutes unlike poor US users from what I remember. So as it stands the Wii like pretty much all Nintendo hardware apart from the crap western NES is as solid as a tank! Yakumo
So far, my Wii has been pretty decent. Never had a Nintendo console break on me yet. Only thing I worry about is breaking the sensor bar wire (Seriously, they need to make it a little thicker). The PS3, though, gets hot. Also have occasional issues with the sound when I turn it on with a HDMI cable connection (About 1 in every 20 power-ons have the music sounding messed up and forces me to restart).
Well, it could be better, if Nintendo put their firmware out as an ISO file, since then you could always update your firmware that way. That is how my KISS DP 1000 dvd player has the last firmware. But I guess, Nintendo, and the likes are afraid of Firmware hacks/cracks. Where KISS didn´t care, since they in some way encouraged it.
Has no company been able to embrace both homebrew and commercial games!? I mean, can't there be some kind of protection such as say, if a commercial game's files include a certain code, they can only run off DVDs that are original and not burnt (say, using the Saturn's system of an extra ring, or another encryption system). If the app doesn't have said code, it runs normally from any media.
