Took an entire 5 days of me having the 360 before I got an error (E74, Hardware Failure). Apparently, this just "happens" sometimes. Yeah, this has "happened" so many times in the past 20 years with all the system's I've had. I had to play the NES and PSX to death (thousand hours for the NES at least, hundreds for the PSX, and that was a 1-series model) before they broke down. I've had my 360 on for a total of about 5 hours in 5 days, mostly to just download demos and trailers from Live Marketplace. I played GRAW for all of an hour and Geometry Wars and Hardwood Backgammon for about an hour each as well. That's all the spinning the DVD drive's done.
This was actually one of my reasons for not wanting to pay a lot for a 360: shoddy hardware. If there's one thing where Nintendo kicks the snot out of the competition, it's in the reliability of hardware. I was playing a 'Cube at my cousin's house and it actually fell 2 feet while we were playing Mario Tennis and the system didn't even skip a beat in the game, not to mention have a hardware failure. We won't even talk about all the issues the Xboxs and Playstations, all iterations, have had since they came out. And Sega wasn't exactly known for rock-solid hardware, although the DC was pretty good.
I know it's happened to basically everyone here. I'm just venting, not expecting sympathy.
I downloaded the demo for Dead Rising. I can really see why this demo's useless. Yeah, you can run around wasting zombies, but it really doesn't do much to explain the cases (objectives) to you. I'm assuming the actual game incorporates these relatively well and gives you a reason and purpose to running around the mall wasting hundreds of zombies, right?
This was actually one of my reasons for not wanting to pay a lot for a 360: shoddy hardware. If there's one thing where Nintendo kicks the snot out of the competition, it's in the reliability of hardware. I was playing a 'Cube at my cousin's house and it actually fell 2 feet while we were playing Mario Tennis and the system didn't even skip a beat in the game, not to mention have a hardware failure. We won't even talk about all the issues the Xboxs and Playstations, all iterations, have had since they came out. And Sega wasn't exactly known for rock-solid hardware, although the DC was pretty good.
I know it's happened to basically everyone here. I'm just venting, not expecting sympathy.
I downloaded the demo for Dead Rising. I can really see why this demo's useless. Yeah, you can run around wasting zombies, but it really doesn't do much to explain the cases (objectives) to you. I'm assuming the actual game incorporates these relatively well and gives you a reason and purpose to running around the mall wasting hundreds of zombies, right?
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
