AFAIK the cooling was faulty or insufficient which burned the chips out.
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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 months agoIsn’t the 360’s failure rate due to MS rushing to release it before the PS3?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
icedterminal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tagging on here: Both the first model PS3 and Xbox 360 were hot boxes with insufficient cooling. Both suffered from getting too hot too fast for their cooling solutions to keep up. Resulting in hardware stress that caused the chips solder points to weaken until they eventually cracked.
john89@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Owner of original 60gb PS3 here.
It got very hot and eventually stopped working. It was under warranty and I got an 80gb replacement for $200 cheaper, but lost out on backwards compatibility which really sucked because I sold my PS2.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Why would you want backwards compatibility? To play games you already own and like instead of buying new ones? Now now, don’t be ridiculous.
Sarcasm aside, I do wonder how technically challenging it is to keep your system backwards-compatible. I understand console games are written for specific hardware specs, but I’d assume newer hardware still understands the old instructions. It could be an OS question, but again, I’d assume they would develop the newer version on top of their old, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t support the old features anymore.
I don’t want to cynically claim that it’s only done for profit reasons, and I’m certainly out of my depth on the topic of developing an entire console system, so I want to assume there’s something I just don’t know about, but I’m curious what that might be.
NecroParagon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Intercooler + wet towel got me about 30 minutes on Verruckt
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think the 360 failed for the same reason lots of early/mid 2000s PCs failed. They had issues with chips lifting due to the move away from leaded solder. Over time the formulas improved and we don’t see that as much anymore. At least that’s the way I recall it.
anivia@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
No, it was entirely Nvidias fault
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