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The Battle will be Waged... in a small town in Colorado:</p>


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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Supra" data-cid="214881" data-time="1385059830">
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Yeah figure the Xbox will get the same attention to its faults. Read a review on it, some good things some bad things. The one thing that I noticed was the bumpers on the Xbox controller got worse.</p>
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As I hope the PS4's get better. For PS3, using wet sponges for the bumpers would have been superior. </p>


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The "defective" portion of the Xbox vs PS4 battle wont be relevant for about 6 months after release. </p>
 
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Exactly... 1%... that's a lot in respect to 1 million units sold, but I'd say that's withing range and you can expect at least that out of microsoft because they have 100x more shit packed in. The thing that is confusing to me is that the 1% number is being related to defective units, and I can't figure out if that's including the units that had minor things wrong that were fixable? Or if they were all Blue Light of Death.</p>
 

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Exactly... 1%... that's a lot in respect to 1 million units sold, but I'd say that's withing range and you can expect at least that out of microsoft because they have 100x more shit packed in. The thing that is confusing to me is that the 1% number is being related to defective units, and I can't figure out if that's including the units that had minor things wrong that were fixable? Or if they were all Blue Light of Death.</p>
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As i have read, some are fixable. Some are related to patch 1.50 issues, etc. </p>


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I, will wait.</p>
 

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="The Deadliest Man Alive" data-cid="214886" data-time="1385060566">
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As I hope the PS4's get better. For PS3, using wet sponges for the bumpers would have been superior. </p>


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The "defective" portion of the Xbox vs PS4 battle wont be relevant for about 6 months after release. </p>
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I just want to know how fucking hard is it to make a good controller? Nintendo and Sega had it mastered in the 80s and 90s</p>
 

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I'm hearing the failure rate is closer to 0.4% as of right now.</p>
 

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I give it at least a year before I buy any new consoles. How many revisions did PS3 and Xbox 360 have when all was said and done? They fixed so many issues throughout the life of those consoles....</p>
 

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Supra" data-cid="214924" data-time="1385085194">
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I just want to know how fucking hard is it to make a good controller? Nintendo and Sega had it mastered in the 80s and 90s</p>
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Microsoft got it right on their second version of the first X-Box controller (though the intial launch controller was absolutely horrible) and got even better with the 360.</p>
 
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Yeah, I'm probably not going to get a PS4 until the first batch are done on the line and they start rolling out a 2.0. Either that or they dump price already. But those two things usually coincide. Even then it's not really the hardware or the failure rate that gets me pissed off. No matter when you buy and at what price I bet you they still have about a .4 percent failure rate it's the fucking software that is rushed out for the launch that fucks everything up. I bet they had more problems with software than hardware. The three Bs will mar this launch. Bugs, Beta, Broken. I'll wait till things are smoothed.. but damn does they look sweet.</p>


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I'm still flabbergasted by the size of the XBONE thought, on top of having a fucking giant power brick. I could understand the size of it because of all the stuff they are packing in, but to not have an internal power supply on top of it... shit man.</p>
 
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I had only seen the disc drive problems so that's interesting. But not shocking as you say. Wonder what the percentage will be when all is said and done. If you posted a comment by ever person who is using one with no problems you wouldn't even be able to find these errors.</p>
 
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after PS3 and XBOX 360 I dont know why anyone buys a system at launch.  Its almost a guarantee to be something that will need to be repaired within a year or 2.</p>
 

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MassHavoc" data-cid="214994" data-time="1385140407">
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Yeah, I'm probably not going to get a PS4 until the first batch are done on the line and they start rolling out a 2.0. Either that or they dump price already. But those two things usually coincide. Even then it's not really the hardware or the failure rate that gets me pissed off. No matter when you buy and at what price I bet you they still have about a .4 percent failure rate it's the fucking software that is rushed out for the launch that fucks everything up. I bet they had more problems with software than hardware. The three Bs will mar this launch. Bugs, Beta, Broken. I'll wait till things are smoothed.. but damn does they look sweet.</p>


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I'm still flabbergasted by the size of the XBONE thought, on top of having a fucking giant power brick. I could understand the size of it because of all the stuff they are packing in, but to not have an internal power supply on top of it... shit man.</p>
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Internal power supply would be more heat in the box...and a higher failure rate.</p>
 
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Internal power supply would be more heat in the box...and a higher failure rate.</p>
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Well.. yes, of course, no one is disputing that, but they've been doing this for like what 10-15 years now and they still can't find fucking hardware engineers? The PS4 runs hotter than the XBONE and it's still not considered a failure risk.</p>
 

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Amazon's Deal of the Day is a Vita bundle. I'm so tempted to get it considering that I'll likely be getting a PS4 in the future.


They also 1 year PS Plus memberships on sale for $29.99 and this can be added on to current membership.
 

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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MassHavoc" data-cid="215424" data-time="1385503937">
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Well.. yes, of course, no one is disputing that, but they've been doing this for like what 10-15 years now and they still can't find fucking hardware engineers? The PS4 runs hotter than the XBONE and it's still not considered a failure risk.</p>
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Cost control. Bundle it with a cheap, huge, external power supply, or upgrade the internal components so the power supply can be internal? Pretty simply really.</p>
 

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Anyone ever gotten a 360 controller to work on the PC? It's showing up in device manager but isn't showing up in the Game Controllers (64 bit Win 7).</p>
 
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Anyone ever gotten a 360 controller to work on the PC? It's showing up in device manager but isn't showing up in the Game Controllers (64 bit Win 7).</p>
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does the center button glow? have you booted a game and checked if it recognizes your controller?</p>


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I've never even looked if my 360 controller shows up in the control panel, its just been plug and play.</p>
 

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I'm a sucker and broke down and bought a PS4 online via BestBuy today. Should be here in a few days. I know I should've waited, but sometimes I can't help myself.</p>
 
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I'm in an NHL 14 club with a couple of the Kitchener Rangers.  Too bad I only play like once every 10 days.</p>
 
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