THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: cubicle47b on November 15, 2006, 04:58:54 PM

Title: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: cubicle47b on November 15, 2006, 04:58:54 PM

When did this become a mandatory "feature" and who are the distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who actually do this?

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: The Sceneman on November 15, 2006, 05:11:22 PM

I remember when I first saw a PS2 and I thought it was such an innovation that it could stand vertically.

The same thing happened with PCs... consoles were just 10 years late

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 15, 2006, 05:15:50 PM

i hate it when the disc kinda slips out of the tray while it's closing and then SCRATCH

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 15, 2006, 05:28:05 PM

I stood my 360 vertical for a little while, didnt do anything bad. Its flat now since it looks better that way in my setup.

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: cubicle47b on November 15, 2006, 05:30:13 PM

A PC is wide and heavy enough that my cat isn't going to be able to knock it over (well, not without hurting itself).  It also has drives placed horizontally and doesn't have to fit in my component rack which no vertically standing next-gen console is going to be able to do.

I just don't understand why this became the norm.

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: Wobedraggled on November 15, 2006, 05:47:54 PM

I believe this started it all...

(http://www.yamato-export.com/images/pcfx-set.jpg)

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: brawndolicious on November 15, 2006, 08:31:07 PM

Aweful idea.  Only good use I've seen of it is when I borrowed my friend's PDZ disk and it got scratched to hell when another friend tilted the console vertically while it was on.  I honestly haven't played a worse fps.

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: Voltorb on November 16, 2006, 10:47:48 AM

When I borrowed my friend's Playstation a while back to play FF VII, I had to stand the console up vertically in order for the game to actually play. My other friends did the same thing with their systems too whenever their games couldn't read. So as for consoles standing I'm going to say Playstation started a trend ;x . My Wii is going to be lying flat though...

Title: Re: Vertically Standing Consoles
Post by: Himu on November 16, 2006, 10:52:51 AM

vertical consoles are wayyy better looking and take up much less room! They're awesome!