What systems do you regret buying/not buying?

Absolutely the Vita. In addition to the aforementioned issues of titles, the Vita fucks you over on their proprietary memory (I know, I'm repeating myself), whereas its main competitor, the 3DS, takes bog-standard SD cards. Check it: a 32GB SD card costs ~$20, but a 32GB Vita memory card is 80 motherhumping dollars.

 

That's literally 80% of the reason I have no intention of buying one. Even for my PSP I could get an adapter to plug in a micro SD card (also dirt cheap), but the Vita cards are so small they can't make an adapter, or just haven't yet.

 

I've had just about every game systems but I do regret missing out Amiga. I got an A500 with 512k upgrade some years ago for a dollar a few years back, fixed the green screen of death (one bad $2 chip) and I had a blast playing games. Back then, graphic wise they were superior to any computer except for Macintosh. I would have loved Amiga back in its prime but not as much today.

 

Dang, should I sell away my limited edition Vita then and keep the limited edition Zelda wii U?

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Yes, yes you should.

Plus the Wii U has other Zelda buddies to hang out with.

And worthwhile games to play.

 

Not sure if trolling.

 

I bought a Vita at launch and while I don't regret owning one since day one (I play my Vita more than anything else), I do regret getting the 3G version. :/

I agree the memory card situation is bullshit though.

 

Have they come out with a way to unlock it? Or are they still stuck on AT&T?

 

I'm UK and it came with a Vodafone SIM but I thought I read it was unlocked. Never tried it though.

EDIT: stuck an O2 SIM from my phone in and it registers the network. I take it they're tied to AT&T in the US then?

 

That's what they launched as, but I never really looked into if they were locked or not.

 

I regret not buying a Wii-U when they were on extreme clearance at one store here a while back, apparently for roughly $80USD. Now the remaining stockists are at the standard price of ~$400USD.

 

My only regrettable purchase: Xbox 360. Worst console ever.

 

dude, aside from the RROD issue, the Xbox exclusive like halo, gears of war..etc make its worthy for purchasing. Although I am more of a Playstation fanboy.

 

It's not the RROD issue, it's multiple other issues I've explained once before on another forum, so I'll just quote it here.

A console can have a few decent games, but still be utter crap.

 

The only consoles I have ever regretted purchasing were the Wii & the PS3. They literally did nothing for me. Wii was a Gamecube with shittier games & shittier controls, & a garbage implementation of online gaming.
The PS3 was useless already having owned a 360, sure there was titles like Little Big Planet that gave it some kind of edge, but the online functionality was garbage when I owned it, & the constant installing was a chore.

 

The Nintendo Wii, while I could say the 360 or even the original Xbox, at least those systems have some good games on it that I will actually play. The Wii on the other hand... I only got it to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl which while fun, isn't a solid reason to get the system. If I do get any use of it these days, it is for the Virtual Console and emulation since I kind of like the idea of hooking an SD console into a CRT so the games look right when emulated.

 

I smell a Sony fanboy.

The Wii has too many shovelware crap games, and I only use my PS3 for playing Blu-Rays and watching Youtube.

It would help if the PS3 had a non-garbage controller.

 

Because I don't like Xbox 360 backed with reason not to, and because it happens to be made by Microsoft? Riiight, a very logical assumption...

PS: If you recognized my nickname (and the history behind it), you'd call me anything but a Sony fanboy...

 

Fine, fair enough (I don't recognize the nickname). I'll go through all your points in your post and tell you why they're wrong/misguided.

1. Poor Manufacturing - Last I checked, Microsoft gets about 2500 a day from the UK alone. At launch time, this thing f00ked up so many times with so many different problems, it was like the launch of Windows 95 all over again! It has an endless number of syndromes that not even M$ can fix them all seems like.

Was certainly true for the original launch model 360, but the Slim has a failure rate of about 2.5%, well within normal parameters (not every system works for any company, the PS3 had bad units, and I'm sure the Wii did too, it's a byproduct of mass production)

2. The games aren't that good - I've tried many games and demos for the 360 and so far, none are really impressive or interesting, except those Burger King games. Other than that, it just looks like all 360 has is Gears of War, Dark Planet, and Halo 3. I just got done playing some of the new demos, and my god did they bore the hell out of me!

There's a ton of great 360 games, in just about every genre. Going off Metacritic (not the best, but I haven't played every game ever for it), there are literally hundreds of games ranked in the 80s and 90s. Just off the top of my head, the GTAs, the Orange Box (the PS3 version is terrible, but the PC is good, and TF2 is free to play now), Red Dead Redemption, Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, the whole Mass Effect trilogy, Batman Arkham Asylum and City (the best superhero games to date), Forza 3 and 4 (2 is good too), Assassin's Creed, VF 5, the list goes on.

3. The add-ons are expensive - This is where things get totally ridiculous. $100+ bucks for a f00king power chord?! WTF? That's bull s@#%![URL="http://www.ebay.com/"]Ebay[/URL] isn't exactly cheap either... The HDD is more expensive than the original Xbox and the mem cards are almost expensive as the games themselves. My god that pisses me off.

I have no idea where those numbers you're getting are from. Amazon has third party power cords for $15 or $22, not as cheap as the generic PS3 one (stupid external power supply), but not $100. Plus with the external one, if you position the systems right, it's really easy to unplug them.

4. Crappy firmware - What kind of company makes firmware that bricks it's own consoles? But then again, it's microsoft, they aren't perfect.

Every company sometimes shits out a firmware update. It happens now.

5. Too lazy to fix even the simplest problems - How hard is it to fix the scratching disc problem (when the console has a game inside and the gamer moves the console)? Not hard at all. Ameture modders fix this problem easily themselves, why can't M$? All they did was put a warning label on the drive. That's like putting a peice of plywood over a pothole in the road and calling it fixed! Not good enough.

If you're dumb enough to move your console while it's on, then you deserve to have it scratched. I've moved my system (while off) with a disc inside multiple times (though never going from horizontal to vertical, because I've never seen the appeal of putting my Xbox up), and had no problems.

6. M$ doesn't put enough effort into the emulator - It looks as if now that they got the most popular titles working (i.e. Halo, Doom 3, etc.), they can just forget about the rest. I mean really, they can emulate complex games Half Life 2, but simpler games like Azurik? I know writing an Xbox emulator is tough task, but still, they have all the documentation they'll ever need and not to mention the man power...

I'll actually agree with that, even if MS says it's hard to do it on a game by game basis. Barely 50% of OG Xbox games are playable on the 360, and back in the day, that was a big deal. With 360 games being plentiful, I haven't actually tried to play an original game on mine in years, but it's definitely a concern, because I liked playing Xbox games on the 360

 

I forgot to mention that I wrote this back in 2007. Oops.

1. The console has definitely gotten better, but after working at Microsoft and with a Microsoft partner doing UI, hardware, functional, and compliance testing, I found even more reasons I find it annoying. None that are really relevant to the end user (i.e. dashboard latency was ridiculous in my honest opinion), but my opinion nonetheless.

2. Well, a really good handful of games that are on the 360 are also available on PC and other platforms. I bought Halo 3 and the Orange Box and really enjoyed the heck out of those games. IMHO, there wasn't enough exclusive content to interest me, but I like playing Half Life 2 on a console more, so I played it on Xbox1 and 360.

3. In the past, they were very expensive and $100 for a power chord was the norm. Another good example was that short lived HD-DVD add-on, and I also had a grudge with the memory cards, but I eventually got over that.

4. I'm not saying other companies don't, but it was definitely the first time I've seen console firmware upgrades actually brick a console.

5. I can't argue with this statement, however, the world is filled with dump people. It's a very simple solution, and the fact that microsoft would rather put a warning label over the drive rather than fix the issue (a few extra cents per console) is a sign of negligence.

6. I essentially gave up on the backwards compat thing, and I use my Xbox1 instead, so problem solved.

I'm still not a big fan of this console, but at least it HAS gotten better, more reliable and more bearable to use. I still think it's ridiculous that it took so long for this to happen though. As for PS3, I can't judge it really, because it didn't have any particular games that interested me outside of Killzone.

And btw, just in case you're wondering about my nick, most people know me as the co-author of Cxbx and a contributor to XQEMU. So that's why I've never gotten questioned as a Sony fanboy.

Shogun.