Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft’s video game console woes

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Squilliam said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Squilliam said:

OT: Nvidia recently fucked up and got a 40% failure rate on their GPUs. What does this mean? RROD could have happened to Sony just as easily. Its not that Microsoft is a screw up, its just that either Sony is Lucky or Microsoft is Unlucky depending on how you spin it. (Nvidia is the supplier of GPUs to Sony btw) 

When Nvidia does it, it's a "fuck up", but when MS does it, it's just them being "unlucky"?

Because Nvidia should have known better. Especially based upon the lessons from the Xbox 360. Because Nvidia did not forsee issues with the creeping temperatures and the problems it was causing the packaging, then how could Microsoft have forseen?

Sony is either lucky or unlucky depending on how you spin it because they could have bought a GPU with the same design flaw in the packaging as the Laptop GPUs which failed. They were all within specification in the Laptop designs and yet they failed, so put that same flaw into the PS3 and the failure rate would have skyrocketed.

I'm not very familiar with that NVidia recall, but proper quality testing would certainly have exposed the RRoD, and responsible engineering would be to fix the problem upon discovery.  That did not happen and it wasn't due to "bad luck" but rather MS rushing development to an incredible degree.  Sony didn't do that and we all can see why now.

By the way I bet the NVidia defect won't have a 25-33% failure rate.  And I bet NVidia didn't stonewall and deny all reports of the problem until it was about to get slammed with massive lawsuits.