Report: Manufacting contract awarded for external 360 Blu-ray drive

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Strategyking92 said:

Staude said:

Barozi said:

loy310 said:
So that would bring the price of the 360 back up to the price of the PS3 again..

 

Exactly, but the major difference is: you have the choice ;)

 

Yeah, and i chose to get my games on blu ray. Higher price, better quality. ;) This ofcourse includes the hardware (that, you cannot deny if you look at the failure rates for each product)

 

true true, quality may not have been good in the past, but now they aren't too bad (failure rates). Of course though, I still think 360 games are of higher quality. I mean, Ps3 releases time and time again get extra bugs in their games. Though this is probably the developers fault.

You are right about reliability of new XB360's, but let's not forget that MS already sold almost 20 million consoles with a failure rate more or less higher than industry standard: until new sales and broken units substitution won't have made the number of unreliable units marginal respect to the total, there will still be a perceptibly higher than normal failure rate that will keep on tainting XB360 reputation.