My word!
I was browsing some gaming websites when I came across a heated debate about whether it’s better to have your console vertical or horizontal. The debates are heated, and get quite personal at times, decending into a flame war.
In case you’re wondering, the consensus seems to be:
The Wii should be vertical if you have space for it, unless you plug in GameCube controllers, in which case, it seems likely to fall over. The GameGube won’t go any other way.
The PS3 seems to be stored mostly horizontal due to the weight distribution inside it and the overall cost of the machine. The PS2 seems to be mostly horitontal, since you need to buy a stand to make it sit upright without falling over.
The 360 debate is still out for the count. It’s clearly designed to be stored in either position (unlike the original XBox), but some people claim vertical knackers the DVD drive or the discs. Yet clearly (from experiments), the machine stays cooler if kept vertical, strangely, since vertical blocks off the largest air vent on the machine. The overall clearance at the bottom (when horizontal) is quite small and won’t let much air through.
I suppose you could correct that by fitting stick on rubber pads to the bottom to raise its ground clearance in horizontal if that worried you.
So the jury is still out.
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