seece said:
Magnific0 said:
Another sad, frustrated customer, hell of a way to build brand loyalty for MS...it's only a small sample of the things to come, next year it'll only get worse as the majority of 360s with problems (over 8 millions of them) will drop out of the 3-year warranty and angry owners will be facing the tough choice between of having to buy a new one, buy an used one within warranty and keep suffering the death-cycle, or abandon ship altogether. It'll be quite a sight. |
Those 8 million people had their 3 year warrenty expire last year 
So obviously no effect whatsoever!
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No, not really. The 360 didn't sell 8 million in 2005 now did it? I was being gentle with the estimated number of defective boxes, too. The whole RROD fiasco exploded in mid-2007, that's when the 3-year warranty was implemented, and it took quite a few chipset changes from that point to the current Jasper to reduce the problem. Therefore I think I'm not wrong to suggest the majority of defective 360s were bought in 2007, and the warranty for those will expire during next year. That doesn't mean those defective machines will die soon after their warranty ends (most of them should've had serious hardware problems, obviously, and should've been already sent to MS one ore more times by now. That's not saying all models bought in 2007 are defective, I'm talking about the documented 33% defective population -note : not made in 2007, but purchased in that year). Add to those numbers any number of 2005-2006 models failing once again or for the first time out of warranty and you should expect a big bunch of unhappy customers throughout the whole of next year.
