[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Nintendo has been around a lot longer than the Xbox or Playstation. They had the momentum going in plus they have a lot more games geared towards kids.

Yeah... I know... but.... the Wii is really a piece of outdated junk, and yet it's selling like hotcakes. That's wrong on so many levels

Microsoft had a boatload of problems with the mainboard when the Xbox first came out. And they seem to still be having problems with failure rates.

They've been working on it. They now use a lot of epoxy to keep the motherboard from flexing and are using better heatsinks, etc, but they still need to be more aggressive with it. It should be at least twice as reliable as it is. I had no idea they had such a big defect rate. I mean it's almost 25%. Maybe they're building them with parts from unsold Zunes

Even the Kinect isn't going to save them from that.

If I could make a bet with you I would that Kinect is going to change a lot of things in the world as we now know it. The tech is still in its infancy but with places like MIT and NASA now behind it you'll see some amazing results in the next couple of years. It's a shame that a company like MS will profit from it but that's how it goes in the tech world. One guy is now using it to make an airplane avoidance system so that planes can't crash into each other. It's just a matter of time before the medical profession adapts it. God I love technology