crumas2 on 22 September 2008
| joshin69 said: I'm from the UK and yes i think the 360 has more users in the UK but the numbers have been dropping for a long while. Not sure what the price drop will do but i do know that saying RRoD is fixed doesn't mean it is and even if it is the specter of RRoD will always hang over the machine. I don't want one myself (i went for a 60gb Ps3) although i wouldn't mind a loan of one for a month to play the two gamers i feel im missing out on, Mass effect and crackdown. |
RRoD is a thermal issue (warping of the heatsink and resulting loss of heat transfer efficiency). Considering the new Jasper motherboards will run significantly cooler than the older ones (going from a 90nm to 65nm GPU will result in a dramatic decrease in heat), do you have a particular reason why you believe RRoD will still be an issue? Do you have technical information you could share that would be helpful in understanding why this might still occur?
I agree with you regarding the "specter" of RRoD. Once burned, most consumers will shy away from a product, and word-of-mouth communications is a powerful factor in purchase decisions for potential new customers.
