Personally, I'm really not surprised that this happened. I mean, Bill Gates (the dude in charge of Microsoft) decided to release their console before the competition had a chance to launch theirs off. So buyers of the Xbox 360 will already be satiated with their console, and decide not to waste money on any other consoles.
Some people wanted to get this console first before anyone else. That's basically a way of saying, "Ha! I got this cool thing before you did!" That's really a choice of nature (a way of being superior than another), and also is quite stupid too, since they're now stuck with a glitched up model. The reason you should never buy a console when it first comes out is because it just came off right the market. Buying the system now means you get the oldest version. The gaming industry occasionally updates their product. They make better ones later on.
Additionally, after you buy the console, all you have is a console! The games are still being developed. Usually on the day of the release, the system just has about five games to it's name. The five games are usually made to keep the players busy while they pave the way to better games currently being worked on. So you just blow off fifty bucks on the worst games out. Xbox 360's Call of Duty 2 is decent. But Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is almost as good and can be obtained for PS2, GameCube or Xbox instead.
So yeah, the moral is, don't get new consoles the day it is released. Otherwise, your games might lock up like it does on the current version of Xbox 360 or the old version of PS2.
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