“Xbox 360 fries eggs” – so can weathermen
You’ve all probably seen this video. It’s days old, and it’s been viewed over 31,330+ times over at YouTube (about a thousand of those views are me telling my friends to watch it). Now we can step back and, um, take the egg with a grain of salt.
Your typical QJ blogger is a Sony gamer and a Nintendo gamer and a Microsoft gamer (and a PC gamer and a regular Mac user) – in other words, we love ’em all, because hey, it’s all good and we feel lucky to live and write during these next-gen times. So we have these points to make:
- For the rest of you who want to follow this amazing, eye-catching exhibition: if you don’t want your Xbox 360, don’t boil water and fry an egg on it. Get Microsoft to fix it (remember, Microsoft was willing to refund any repairs that owners have had to get on their “buggy” Xbox 360 units), and then give the repaired unit to your local orphanage. It’s almost Christmas.
- Um, the PlayStation 3 supposedly overheated at TGS 2006. Please don’t try to one-up this video by frying something on a PS3. Give the PS3 to QJ so QJ can give it to a reader. That’s one less person who has to line up. 🙂
- Overheating is not pretty. But that’s like a weatherman frying an egg on the sidewalk to prove that it’s a hot day – the majority of weathermen don’t fry eggs on sidewalks, and the majority of sidewalks aren’t that hot. We’re glad that Microsoft took measures to shoulder repair expenses for faulty Xbox 360s, and we’re glad that Sony took steps to deal with the whole “overheating at TGS” mess.
You’ve all probably seen this video. It’s days old, and it’s been viewed over 31,330+ times over at YouTube (about a thousand of those views are me telling my friends to watch it). Now we can step back and, um, take the egg with a grain of salt.
Your typical QJ blogger is a Sony gamer and a Nintendo gamer and a Microsoft gamer (and a PC gamer and a regular Mac user) – in other words, we love ’em all, because hey, it’s all good and we feel lucky to live and write during these next-gen times. So we have these points to make:
- For the rest of you who want to follow this amazing, eye-catching exhibition: if you don’t want your Xbox 360, don’t boil water and fry an egg on it. Get Microsoft to fix it (remember, Microsoft was willing to refund any repairs that owners have had to get on their “buggy” Xbox 360 units), and then give the repaired unit to your local orphanage. It’s almost Christmas.
- Um, the PlayStation 3 supposedly overheated at TGS 2006. Please don’t try to one-up this video by frying something on a PS3. Give the PS3 to QJ so QJ can give it to a reader. That’s one less person who has to line up. 🙂
- Overheating is not pretty. But that’s like a weatherman frying an egg on the sidewalk to prove that it’s a hot day – the majority of weathermen don’t fry eggs on sidewalks, and the majority of sidewalks aren’t that hot. We’re glad that Microsoft took measures to shoulder repair expenses for faulty Xbox 360s, and we’re glad that Sony took steps to deal with the whole “overheating at TGS” mess.
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