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Video game consoles
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Video game consoles, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Forced logos, EULAs, warnings and 'press any button' screens must be clicked through before reaching the menu2026-04-16
- Updates take hours to apply, and games need updating each time they are played2024-01-11
- Console tells users to press ~ but the key mapped is the raw keycode, so the wrong key is needed2022-08-19
- Tutorials say press ~ but the key is hardcoded to a keycode, so on this layout the key is elsewhere2021-08-04