About a year ago, I decided to invest a large amount of my money (I had no job) in the purchase of an Xbox 360. So I bought it along with two games for 623.75$ CAD. I get home excited to finally try it out, since I had never even tried one of the next-gen consoles. So it works GREAT, and it was amazing.
About a week later, I'm just chillaxin' playing some Madden in franchise mode. And I get all the way to the conference championship, and I'm about to make the winning field goal... and RIGHT when my kicker scores, the screen freezes up and I hear a deadly screech from inside my Xbox. I take out the disc, but everything's fine, and there is no red light of doom... so I start up my Xbox and do it all over again.
The above situation happened so often, I went a returned the console for a new one. Guess what? The new one did the SAME thing, plus it scratched my discs! So I call the store to ask the dude who works there, because I'd obviously been doing something wrong. SO he asks me "Uhhh, do you have a large subwoofer placed directly behind your console?" No, I had isolated it from my other electronics stuff, near a huge fan AND on cold wood floor. Then he asks "Do you have a large dog?" Because apparently, large dogs walk hard enough to vibrate the console so that it breaks... and I don't even have a larger dog. Finally, after loads more retarded questions, I decided to bring it back for ANOTHER one.
When I bought this one, the store dude told me not to place it vertically, because it would kill the console. Now wait... isn't the console DESIGNED to be held vertically? I mean I'd always seen it vertical... nevertheless I kept my console horizontal for this try... and the same thing happened again. After 3 consoles that did the same thing, I just returned it and got my money back.
After all of that shit, and a year later, I had enough money to buy either a PS3, an Xbox, or a Wii. Since the PS3 was just too damn expensive, and the Xbox exploded 3 times on me, I decided to buy a Wii. Why, you ask? "YA WIIS R SO GAY". It's called innovation. Although there are not many games suited for me, it's still a fun console, and that's the key word. It's made just to have fun with friends, not to spend 209302193 hours of gameplay (except for a very small minority of games). So far, I'm quite happy with my Wii.