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Crash much? Well, not really, but once is enough for me.

Submitted by on December 27, 2007 – 4:15 pm9 Comments

I was commenting to a friend today about how often I see mention online of people saying they “never play their Wii” now or that they have “nothing to play” on the system, to which I can only respond, “really?” That’s fine, I won’t argue with those who don’t see anything they want to play available for the Wii, even though I play mine nearly every day. Everyone has different tastes. For example, someone asked me earlier this week while I was setting up the system for my brother-in-law (he got one for Christmas, you see) what the system is like and whether it’s worth getting. I didn’t say “yes, get one” as you might expect. I asked what kind of games he likes to play, and he said first-person shooters and racing games. I recommended an Xbox 360 instead, because while those genres do appear on Wii, they are not well represented. The latter, in fact, is a genre I personally miss.

Speaking of the Xbox 360, my understanding is that the console is pretty unreliable, with more than a light amount of software crashes on the stack of major hardware issues it has faced. No software is crashproof of course, but I was still surprised when I went to boot my new copy of Zack & Wiki (a gift I got, yay) and the system locked up for the first time since I was dealing with the web browser beta.

Paul recently spoke to me about a crash he experienced in Ratchet & Clank on the PS3. Thankfully, I’ve found Metroid Prime 3 far more stable than the first public build of Metroid Prime… I recall avoiding elevators in that one on more than one occasion when I hadn’t saved in a while. If you’ve got a current-gen console, how often have you encounted a crash? Anything particularly catastrophic?

See also:

Crash Bug in Tiger Woods for the Xbox 360

Anyone else have trouble with Opera Wii today?

Should we tolerate games crashing?

Patch On My Six, Over.

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  • James (Aeropause)

    This is the prime reason I don’t buy any new games for my 360. My console runs like crap and will crash during every sitting.

    Thankfully, just about everything I want is available on the PS3. I’ve had a fairly crash-free experience on non-beta content for the PS3.

    My PSP used to be pretty crash happy and the DS would crash with AC:WW when trying to play online.

  • James (Aeropause)

    I should comment that the PSP was crash happy when I would flip it into Sleep Mode on early titles. If you sleep a game multiple times over multiple days, it didn’t agree.

    New titles have taken care of that problem.

  • Poison Jam

    I’m always afraid to play my Xbox 360 for extended periods of time because of the various stories I’ve heard from people. I recently had Oblivion crash on me while attempting to shoot fireballs at a big ass rat that came flying towards me. Fortunately, I had only been playing for a few minutes, so I didn’t lose any data, but if this were to happen to me after several hours of play and zero saving, I would’ve been livid. That kind of turns me off from playing the Xbox 360. I hope it’s just shoddy programming on the developer’s part, and not shoddy hardware.

    I’ve not had any crashing issues with the PlayStation 3, or my PlayStation Portable.

  • http://www.froglord.com/forums Goose

    I don’t believe I’ve ever had my Wii crash on me. IIRC, Gamecube crashed only once, and it was in Metroid Prime, but it wasn’t due to the most common crash bug. It was in the middle of a boss battle and was completely out of the blue. It only ever happened once.

  • billm

    I’ve owned my 360 for a 2 months now and no problems at all, my ps3 crashed once on me while playing ratchet, it was during a load scene though so i didn’t lose any data, and i had to send my wii out for repair because i got black fragments all over the screen (though it was a pain to have to send out the wii, i give nintendo credit for sending it back fixed in about a week)

    the thing that ticks me off to no end is when companies patch a game and the patch causes huge problems, or when a company updates a firmware and it causes issues. i remember a ps3 firmware update made it so hardly anyone could get online. to me that is the most annoying. if you are going to force people to install a patch, then you should test the crap out of it and make sure it is going to work, there is no excuse to release a bad patch.

  • http://aeropause.com Shane Whitehouse

    Bill, You probably have a newer 360 build. I bought mine about 1.3 years ago and it really depends on the game. Mass Effect has crashed, but it’s a glitchy game anyway, and others. But I feel it depends on the software, not the hardware.

  • http://www.eklipse.net morphiend

    Only hardware I had “crash” on me lately was a HD projector that turned off during a gaming session from overheating. Hey, we’d been playing it for 3-4 hours straight.

    Before that I had my PS2 lock up a couple of times. I don’t recall the exact games, or if it was my latest PS2 or ones of the ones I had replaced over the years.

  • http://www.routermall.com used cisco

    The Wii has never crashed on me “in game”, however it has “frozen” once during the soft boot that occurs when you go back to the main menu from game play. It will go black before the channels menu appears, but the channels menu never appeared. Had to hard reset it. A couple of times this happened and it just took a few seconds to come back, maybe I just didn’t wait long enough before.

    The 360 crashes pretty regularly but i wouldn’t characterize it as “constantly”. I would say at least once a week. No particular games more than others, just random, whatever I may be doing. Its a newer unit but that doesn’t seem to matter.

    My DS has never crashed but I’ve gotten a few weird screen overlays in puzzle quest that forced me to restart because I couldn’t continue with 2 screens on top of each other.

    My gamecube froze on me once in 5 years, ended up being due to a borked memory card. Other than that, the most reliable console I’ve ever owned.

    Original xbox has never crashed “in game” however, it has spontaneously rebooted when trying to read a disc several times.

    My PS2 slim has never crashed except when I’m using the swap magic. :)

  • http://www.farbot.com Paul Munn

    My PS2 crashed a few times. One game I remember crashed once was The Mark of Kri.

    It’s true Ratchet did crash on my PS3 once. I’d just jumped up into the air and blown up a dropship using the laser whip-like weapon. I have a pic of the frozen picture I took with my digicam too.

    I tried reproducing it several times since it was at the start of a particular level but wasn’t able to do so. I was hoping to have a nice juicy reproducible crash to write about but no dice.