Comments on: Top 5 Hardware/Software Failures Of The Decade

By: Dall

Dall — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:18:59 +0000

I think you missed out on one of the potentialy biggest f-ups in hardware and that is Nvidia,s latest chipset. Already behind the ball when it comes to DX11 support and the latest reviews state the new dx11 chipset runs hot consume vast amounts of power yet are underpowered. This stands to be a major game changer in the graphics processor battle for supremicy. even if Nvidia started fresh 6 months ago to correct the issues the PC market is looking at 2 years before they can ramp up production on a new series of chipsets. This means barring some kind of miracle the graphics card marketplace will be dominated by ATI for at least the next 2yrs once DX11 games start rolling out toward the 2nd half of 2010. Unlike DX10 which recieved very little uptake DX11 is set to be the new industry standard.

By: James Ireland

James Ireland — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:36:07 +0000

Hahaha

By: Kill Crow

Kill Crow — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:34:46 +0000

Windows 98 was 12 years ago … this article was written in 2010 ….

duid the author use his PS3 to work that one out how long a decade is?

By: joel

joel — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:51:20 +0000

The bastion of reliability was sony?! My PS2 lasted 2 months!!!! And my PS1 lasted 2 years which is not too bad when compared to the PS2.

By: Used Cisco

Used Cisco — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:39:27 +0000

Interesting list. I would have thought the PS2 DRE was more common and effected a lot more people than the PS3 YLoD but either way, shows Sony has had some issues too. RRoD stands head and shoulders above the rest though, not even in the same league.

By: aa member

aa member — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:37:33 +0000

Interesting read up until the YLOD. I work in a game/movie retail outlet, and have only had one or two people in the past years mention getting the YLOD. That includes also the many personal friends and family I have that own ps3′s. Sounds like your staff was doing something wrong to get 3 in one year. I do agree that the warranty on the ps3 isnt that great, but the 24 hour psn downtime wasnt exactly an epic failure, more an inconvienience. This should have had something that affected everyone in terms of hardware failure, not the 3 people in you staff.

By: James Ireland

James Ireland — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:15:55 +0000

Perhaps our opinions have been slightly influenced that 3 of our staff members got the YLOD in the last year.

By: James Ireland

James Ireland — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:15:26 +0000

1999 to 2009 was the dates.

By: VR-4nic

VR-4nic — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:14:40 +0000

This probably won’t get posted but I’ll say it anyway. Is this guy kidding the PS3 @# 2, really! I think we might have a XBot! PS3 failure rate is at the most was estimated 11%, the XBox 360 was at one point estimated as high 32%-52%. I had both for years and am on my 3rd XBox but my Fat BC 60GB PS3 has never given me any hardware problems. It did though take a 24hour rest the other day (feb.29?)LOL! Work fine now!

By: Hikaru

Hikaru — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:10:09 +0000

??? Win98 in this decade? XD ^^