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jarrod on 21 December 2009
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MikeB said:
jarrod said:
MikeB said:
jarrod said:
MikeB said:
Very nice result vs the 360 so far considering the 360's 1 year and 5 months headstart (2 more holiday seasons).

360's holiday launch was so supply constrained, it's not really worth pointing out versus PS3's March.  Demand outstripped supply through April for 360 in America and Europe.

Someone told me, shortages were mainly due to RROD problems. Sounds reasonably plausible to me.

RROD didn't start creeping in until units were failing in later 2006.  Shortages were due to having a worldwide launch and the general issues associated with new console launches.  360's tech being absolute bleeding edge didn't help yields either (this was also an issue for PS3, which experienced launch window shortages in Europe as well).

For example from 1up (posted 23rd of November 2005):

reasonable gamer lays it out like this: "Between my friends and I, we bought 6 machines at the Zero Hour event. Of the 6, my machine has a dead hard drive, another machine is working but is rather flaky (seen some strange behavior - the drive may also be scratching discs, as my friend's copy of Condemned is now unplayably scratched, but we don't know if the drive caused it - the machine has also had problems booting games and being turned off...), one seems to be good, and I haven't heard yet about the status of the other three."

Even here in our offices we have had some incidents with retail units. One of them overheated and crashed during Project Gotham Racing 3, though not as spectacularly as Jsgongwon's experience. Dan "Shoe" Hsu also reported that a very strange echo effect happened during Xbox Live play of Perfect Dark Zero - sometimes a word said over chat would endlessly repeat in a strange echo effect over and over in the headphones. Some kind of bizarre feedback loop?

 

Er, none of those issues refer to RROD specifically, though one did say it overheated.  The rest are game related bugs/crashes or HDD/DVD drive failures.