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Microsoft - 360 Falcon RRoD? - View Post

albionus on 04 October 2007
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sinha said:
naznatips said:
Crap. Guess I still need to wait longer. I want a 360 Microsoft. I really really do. There are so many games I want. Please just make it reliable, and I'll buy it.

You are never going to get a 360 if this is your standard.

1) Some percentage of brand new 360s will always RRoD. When they do, photos will be posted online, you'll see them, and not buy a 360. Even if new 360s are 1,000 times more reliable, all it apparently takes for you to not buy one is for a few photos of a few consoles with RRoD to show up on the internet (based on this "First case of..." story).

2) New 360s could become 1,000 times more reliable ("could," I'm not saying they are), but anyone who really wants to could still MAKE a new 360 RRoD if they try hard enough. And plenty of people out there may want to do so for various reasons, and they will post photos online. Give me any high-tech electronic device and I'll get it to malfunction within one hour.

There will be plentiful cases of RRoD throughout the lifespan of the 360, no matter what Microsoft does.

 

I'm with Naz on that one.  I also wanted to point out that some people are smart enough to know that forum posts are not rock solid indicators of the 360's reliabilty.  It's not the millions of forum posts on this topic that sways most gamers but the stories from reputable gaming sites about swamped 360 repair facilities, 30-35% failure rates, all of their staff going through 4+ 360's, not to mention MS' $1.2 billion warratny extension and confirmation that every 360 made (at least up until the statement in July I believe) suffered the flaw causing the excessive failure rate. 

Now what this forum post does seem to show is that the switch over to Falcon that was supposed to fix the problem may not in fact have fixed it.  It could be an isolated incident but it means any gamer waiting for MS to get the failure rate to a more normal rate would be prudent to hold off on dropping $500.  When reputable gaming sites talk about mass layoffs at the 360 repair centers, a failure rate that seems more normal, and MS can go a year without a warranty extension then I think most on the fence gamers will make a decision.  Even though threads like this will still exist to some extent most won't care because they aren't the deciding factor to most.