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You hear about PlayStations breaking the sound barrier when the fans kick on and Xbox’s overheating/red ring of death, but what about NerveGear?

I was thinking about this today and I’m pretty sure this wasn’t addressed.

Did any of the NerveGear malfunction, have connection issues (packet loss, latency etc), overheating, hardware recalls or was it just the perfect gaming device?

I’m sure Kayaba would’ve ensured to have a flawless machine for his experiment, but surely out of the 10,000 players trapped, as a gamer knowing even a $3000 PC setup still has some issues, there HAD to be some people that died due to malfunctioning equipment is some way.

And Google AI seems to think my question is referring to people who tampered with the NerveGear to save their family/friends, but this is STRICTLY regarding the integrity of the system that is NerveGear.

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I won’t post ChatGPT’s whole answer because that’s been super unpopular before, but it has more insight on this than Google. It comes down to reliability being a design requirement, not a nice to have. Something that almost certainly isn’t a guiding principles for PlayStation or Xbox.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It was the means to an end for telling a story. Don't overthink it.