Microsoft has an opportunity here to address the problem. It will really depend. Since they announced the 3 year extension, I'm sure they have a flood of units coming in. If (and it's a big if) they get them all turned around QUICKLY and the fix is for real -- i.e. as good as any other well made electronic device, this will fade before Christmas. They are kind of in a catch 22 though. If they make a big deal of how they have addressed the hardware failures in popular media then they risk alerting parents that would otherwise have just bought the thing becuase that's what their kids asked for. The other side of the equation they risk the general market not believing in the product and not really knowing if the fix is solid or not. I hope they get the backlog of bad machines fixed and fixed well. If they do, I think they will keep a low profile and hope the furor dies down before November when the real shopping begins in earnest.
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
