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nightsurge on 14 April 2009
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jasonnc80 said:
MikeB said:

@ nightsurge

E-74 was never anywhere near as common as the RRoD was.


Yet it's common:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=E-74+360

@ eliasg

Mike B , what about the yellow light of death. Does Sony extended the warranty???


IMO the United Stated should up default warranty for consumer electronics up to 3 years, like is the case for the EU.

Of course this overheating problem is relatively far less common:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22yellow%20light%22+PS3

The PS3 seems to endure mainly 2 far more rare (compared to RRoD, E-74 and disc scratching) hardware failures. 1) Overheating, mostly with regard to old units 2) drive failure seems to be affecting mainly newer units (maybe up to 50% of cases, just a dirty lens)

I am sure Wiis have failed as well, but IMO the 360 situation is extra-ordinary.

You're seriously not using Google search results to show how "big" of an issue it is are you???

Here type in E-25 360 or any other imaginary number and see the results you get.  Wow 26 million hits, must be a new epidemic lol

But hey anyone can manipulate the system just like you did to get whatever results you like.

Oh wow we can do it for the PS3 too!!! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yellow+light+ps3&btnG=Search vs your "proof"

Seriously????????

Thankfully you beat me to it.  Unfortunately MikeB loves to jump on the 360 conspiracy train (such as the NXE changing the system to report E74 instead of RRoD).

Also, I would estimate that the repair cost per console is ~$50, which means, like you said, they can "repair" 20 million consoles before running out of that budget.  If 33% of them failed, that's roughly 10 million.  The rest of the failures were usually refurbs that didn't get appropriate repairs the first time and resulted in, say, another ~$25 repair cost.  Since very few of us have had RRoD mutliple times, and only a select few above that have had it 3 times or more, I'd say they still have plenty of that 1 billion left to cover any additional costs still coming in.

Oh look, if I type in "dead PS3" I get 34 million results!  Dead PS3's must be uber common!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dead+ps3&btnG=Search