GameDadGrant Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Kal-El814 said: Nintendo has, in my opinion, a completely undeserved reputation for hardware quality. The NES is one of the least reliable pieces of successful gaming hardware. Nostalgia has made it seem like it was a quaint thing to have to blow on or reposition carts all the time to get them to play, any system that treated discs this way would get torched and rightfully so. The original Game Boy had a ton of screen quality issues. The SNES looked like it smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day after being next to your TV for a year. The N64 controller's analog sticks were shockingly bad. I don't know if I've ever seen a Nintendo DS lite without cracked hinges. The original 3DS bezel fucked up the upper screen when the system was closed. Switch joycon drift is an inexcusable problem. I honestly don't know where their reputation for hardware quality comes from, it's completely baffling to me. It’s because they all still work. The NES may be the outlier, sure. But anyone with a screwdriver and the tiniest bit of research can fix it. The top-loader NES systems are solid as a rock, as far as I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 6 hours ago, GameDadGrant said: The NES may be the outlier, sure. But anyone with a screwdriver and the tiniest bit of research can fix it. The top-loader NES systems are solid as a rock, as far as I know. If you have to pull out a screwdriver for your console at some point you're now in PC territory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDunks4 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I didn't get the 360 at launch, was it really bad at launch too? Didn't most of the RRoD start happening like 6 months to a year afterwards? I think my first 360 lasted about a year before i started having issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 15 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said: I didn't get the 360 at launch, was it really bad at launch too? Didn't most of the RRoD start happening like 6 months to a year afterwards? I think my first 360 lasted about a year before i started having issues. Yeah I got a RROD but it was sometime down the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 15 hours ago, GameDadGrant said: It’s because they all still work. The NES may be the outlier, sure. But anyone with a screwdriver and the tiniest bit of research can fix it. The top-loader NES systems are solid as a rock, as far as I know. Again, not an outlier. Nintendo has had many hardware problems. They also refused to fix most of them. Hell, a lawsuit was needed to get them admit there was a problem with joycons. They would never fix n64 controllers, or the dslite hinges. Nintendo is a horrible, anti-consumer company that happens to make great games. No different than apple, popular in spite of treatment of their hardware owners, not because of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, BloodyHell said: Again, not an outlier. Nintendo has had many hardware problems. They also refused to fix most of them. Hell, a lawsuit was needed to get them admit there was a problem with joycons. They would never fix n64 controllers, or the dslite hinges. Nintendo is a horrible, anti-consumer company that happens to make great games. No different than apple, popular in spite of treatment of their hardware owners, not because of it. Interesting insight. Thanks for sharing! I’m curious though. If you don’t feel Nintendo has the most reliable hardware in the industry...which company do you think DOES? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 9 minutes ago, GameDadGrant said: Interesting insight. Thanks for sharing! I’m curious though. If you don’t feel Nintendo has the most reliable hardware in the industry...which company do you think DOES? Has MS had any problems aside from RROD (which they took complete responsibility for and fixed/replaced every single console and gave extended warranty)? If not, maybe them. Why does it matter who makes the most reliable when they all have problems? Im not trying to say Nintendo is worse, jusr trying to dispel the myth that they are better. I have a Switch, my wife has a switch, my son has a switch. We each have multiple sets of joy cons, new and old, and we’ve all had to sent multiple joycons to be fixed. Its absolutely inexcusable. To this day, joycons are cheaply made trash (and extremely uncomfortable). They should have been fixed long ago, with PS/Xbox style thumb-sticks to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 @BloodyHell Again, interesting insight! Not sure why you have this mission to try and “dispel the myth” that Nintendo has the most reliable hardware (when I’m pretty sure it does) but I guess we all have our own axes to grind. I always enjoy talking to the group here at D1P. I’m usually surrounded by big Nintendo fans, so it’s refreshing to hear/read opinions that the company and its games/hardware aren’t the best. I really do appreciate it. No bullshit. Though I will say, no way do I want PS-style thumb sticks on my JoyCon! Never liked PlayStation’s analog sticks. They never really felt right in my hands. Xbox-style though? Hmm. Maybe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 13 minutes ago, GameDadGrant said: @BloodyHell Again, interesting insight! Not sure why you have this mission to try and “dispel the myth” that Nintendo has the most reliable hardware (when I’m pretty sure it does) but I guess we all have our own axes to grind. I always enjoy talking to the group here at D1P. I’m usually surrounded by big Nintendo fans, so it’s refreshing to hear/read opinions that the company and its games/hardware aren’t the best. I really do appreciate it. No bullshit. Though I will say, no way do I want PS-style thumb sticks on my JoyCon! Never liked PlayStation’s analog sticks. They never really felt right in my hands. Xbox-style though? Hmm. Maybe! I love Nintendo games, I think they’ve created some of the best ever games, but I see their bs for what it is. I don’t know how anyone could call them most reliable when they’ve made so many unreliable and broken products. Again, broken hinges, broken controllers, broken joycons, NES troubles, switch docks scratching screes. never once took responsibility with fans. Oh, and profits off forced labor. The only difference is for some reason Nintendo fans in general would rather deny it than admit theres a problem. I don’t get it. Sony’s sticks are way better than Nintendo’s. Xbox does make the best controller ever made though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 @BloodyHell Well, agree to disagree about Sony’s sticks. Hard to argue with Xbox’s controller. Except that stupid d-pad. Other than that, little to no complaints! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, GameDadGrant said: Hard to argue with Xbox’s controller. Except that stupid d-pad. Other than that, little to no complaints! The Xbone dpad is pretty good and the Sex dpad is even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Thankfully neither myself nor my husband had the joycon drift problem. All these systems we own, and virtually no problems. I love the 360 controller, still use it on my PC. Sometimes I debate upgrading, though. I don't play fighting games, so the d-pad isn't an issue for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 3:25 PM, Mercury33 said: Ya’ll just need to take better care of your stuff 🤷🏻♂️ Ah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 1:25 PM, Mercury33 said: Ya’ll just need to take better care of your stuff 🤷🏻♂️ 9 hours ago, Paperclyp said: Ah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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