[video]https://youtu.be/YqzrTch_Mso[/video]
I'm inclined to agree with him, Nintendo have made some errors making this system but it's not exactly world ending. I guess it's worth noting that the 360 had the RRoD. In addition to the points he made, there are also vocal people who really want the Switch to fail, seems kinda nuts to me but yeah, that's a thing. Those people can spread the videos of Switches failing and pretend like it's a widespread thing.
People wanting it to fail and spreading the videos pretending how 80% (in reality below 1%) of Switch consoles don't work disgust me. And it's only because Nintendo is the developer behind it. When I remember the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 and PS4 Pro and their problems and videos where the defect units have been shown, there was no desire for Sony and Microsoft to completely fail with those consoles. For the Switch it's almost surreal how negatively fueled some people are.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;51978894]People wanting it to fail and spreading the videos pretending how 80% (in reality below 1%) of Switch consoles don't work disgust me. And it's only because Nintendo is the developer behind it. When I remember the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 and PS4 Pro and their problems and videos where the defect units have been shown, there was no desire for Sony and Microsoft to completely fail with those consoles. For the Switch it's almost surreal how negatively fueled some people are.[/QUOTE]
I think it's pretty silly to spend money on a device that has been shown to be faulty, regardless of how often it 'doesn't' happen. I'll wait until revision 2 thank you.
[QUOTE=reedbo;51979617]I think it's pretty silly to spend money on a device that has been shown to be faulty, regardless of how often it 'doesn't' happen. I'll wait until revision 2 thank you.[/QUOTE]
You can say that about every device though, go onto youtube and type in "faulty [object/device]" and you'll get lists upon lists of so many videos
[QUOTE=Joshii;51979693]You can say that about every device though, go onto youtube and type in "faulty [object/device]" and you'll get lists upon lists of so many videos[/QUOTE]
I mean, yeah, thats how a search feature works
[sp]but I get what you mean[/sp]
[QUOTE=reedbo;51979617]I think it's pretty silly to spend money on a device that has been shown to be faulty, regardless of how often it 'doesn't' happen. I'll wait until revision 2 thank you.[/QUOTE]
eh, i hear horror stories about htc vives dying on the first day, the controllers breaking apart after a light drop and the displays getting dead pixels, yet mine has been dropped, slammed in to walls and had the power yanked out prematurely and works 100% perfectly good as new.
similarly, my family bought a day one xbox one, the one that supposedly has all the disk destroying/overheating/no video output issues. it also still works fine without any issues. my iPhone 6s plus has yet to get bent or have battery life issues.
if i didn't spend money on devices that have been publicly shown to be faulty, i wouldn't own any of the cool gadgets ive owned for years. pretty much every device is going to have flaws, faults and issues but the likelihood of it actually effecting your unit is so ridiculously small that it's not really a risk, especially when you can easily just send the device back to the manufacturer for faults most of the time.
As I've said before, you have to take things into context.
It's easy to make the system look like a complete failure just by showing a compilation of a relatively "large" amount of people having issues with it. However, if you consider how many systems have been sold, it really isn't that much.
For instance, let's say 1,000 units are defective. Sounds like a lot, but let's also say the system has just sold over 100,000. That's only 1% of the units sold. Not that much in the grand scheme of things. Now, let's take into account that the Switch has supposedly sold over 1.5 million units worldwide already. If we keep the number of defective units at 1,000, the percentage is even smaller. If we wanted the number to be a concerning amount, say 10% of units sold, it would have to be as high as 150,000.
The same stuff that is going on with the Switch was also going on with the PS4 and Xbone. Compilation videos made the situation look dire, but in most cases, it would be hard to come across a faulty system. It just seems like more of a shitshow because the people who do have issues will voice their negativity (of which they are fully in their right to do so), and negativity is almost always better at persuading humans than any positive influence.
The only game system in recent memory that had widespread issues to the point of it being a major concern was the Xbox 360 on launch, where it was reported that slightly over half of Xbox 360s sold on launch (54% if I remember correctly) were receiving the RROD. If it turns out the Switch has numbers like that (or even something like 10%), then I will agree with everyone saying that the Switch hardware on launch is faulty.
As it is now, the only issues the system has right now are the left joycon issues, and the dock potentially scratching the screen. The dock is somewhat avoidable (screen protectors or just being super careful), but the left joycon is something that Nintendo needs to address.
[QUOTE=reedbo;51979617]I think it's pretty silly to spend money on a device that has been shown to be faulty, regardless of how often it 'doesn't' happen. I'll wait until revision 2 thank you.[/QUOTE]
The system has minor design flaws but nothing major, and no console breaking errors outside of rare fringe cases. Which cannot be said for most console launches. It's just some people want to the system to fail or know that reporting on failures will yield high views.
It's hasn't been shown to be faulty, there has not been a single console that hasn't had a few faulty units [B]ever[/B].
Jesus Christ that was an awful video. The guy rambles and repeats the same point over and over. The first two minutes were him explaining how he didn't make a video earlier because he didn't want to jump in without knowing as many details as possible. And then he said it three more times, in different ways.
Arlo's always a nice dose of positivity.
I'm still gonna wait and see regarding the Switch, though- wait and see what good bundles come out in the future.
The problem with Crowbcat's video, that Arlo mentions frequently, is the same as it is with most all his videos; His format is entirely based on negativity. They are essentially cherry picking montages designed to prove a point, mainly that something is bad or broken. It doesn't matter how rare something is, or how truthful the point even is, because his videos are designed to make it look like and make it feel like it's the case 100 percent of the time. All games are buggy shitfests, netcode never ever works, and all consoles are basically going to shatter in your hands when you buy them.
It's not about what's real, it's about the narrative he wants to push for x video. [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/IHEOfficial]There are good channels that strive on negativity[/url] or [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/h3h3Productions/videos]spend most of their time making fun of shit[/url], but I don't think Crowbcat goes about it in the right way at all.
The two problems that actually seem to be the most common are the Left Joycon sync issues and dock scratching (this is a design flaw at heart, Nintendo needs to fix this). I'm happy to say that I don't have these problems with my Switch, but I'm not going to say that my situation means that the problems don't exist for others. At the very least I've heard that Nintendo's support is really good for fixing problems like these.
I don't understand why suddenly Crowbcat is being taken seriously. He's done this for pretty much every other company and exists almost solely as a "everything is shit" channel, but the Switch video made him take off. I've had IRL friends actually asking me if my Switch burst into autistic screeching fits yet. :v:
That's just the way I see it. I just can't see in a post-Xbox 360 world that companies would risk jumping to market with something that can have a large fail rate. I really doubt it's as bad as one video is making it seem.
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