jfe2 wrote:
As far as why I personally chose to buy a 360... I guess it mainly has to do with convenience. All of my friends play on XBL, so it was easy to buy a 360 so that I could play games like Call of Duty and Left 4 Dead with them. I really do like the Xbox Live service, and the Xbox Live Arcade is one of my favorite things to mess with currently.
Well, that's just the thing. It's NOT convenient having a machine that is so unreliable. A year or two ago, if 2 or 3 of your friends would've said "ENOUGH" and got PS3s, then it would be convenient to use PSN instead of XBL and you wouldn't be running a high risk of your system dying. I'm really not trying to be a drone for Sony here, but a proponent for smart shopping instead of buying what everyone else has.
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This same fault will plague PS3s and 360s because they have similar construction. The only way to fix it permanently is to reflux the BGA and reflow solder. This can only be effectively done with a BGA workstation, I don't know about you but I don't have easy access to one of those.
I personally don't know what else Microsoft can do about this problem, short of completely redesigning the system (as in a completely new SKU with a different case and everything) and putting in as smaller nanometer process chips as possible to cut down on excess heat. However, if the system gets hot enough to warp the motherboard, guess what, the problem is going to happen again and again because the lead-free solder they have to use sucks shit.
You claim that the PS3 and 360 have a similar build, but I don't hear about nearly as many PS3s yellow-lighting it as I do 360s RRODing. Whatever Sony did in building the PS3 to be relatively reliable, they did it much better than the competition did (unlike the last gen with the early PS2 models..., and before that with early PS1s...).
I just with they'd port the Fable games to the PS3. My PC isn't up to spec!