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One of the bestselling game platforms ever with a library rivaling the PS2? Yes, the RROD was a huge debacle and too many lost money on broken Xboxes. That doe
by yzzxy 12y ago
One of the bestselling game platforms ever with a library rivaling the PS2?
Yes, the RROD was a huge debacle and too many lost money on broken Xboxes. That doesn't change the fact that people bought 70 million of the things, and generally seemed to love them.
- serf 12y agoYou're absolutely right if the discussion was about the business success of the game console, but it's not. It's about Microsoft always having 'hardware that's killing it', which is made pretty untrue by the consoles' faulty reliability in the past. A whole cottage industry of aftermarket console cooling apparatus was spawned due to the first Xbox's history, and it didn't help whatsoever in staying the problems that the second one had. It was a business success regardless, but that's not the topic at hand.