Xbox Live downtime doesn't render your console unable to play the vast majority of the content or indeed DLC. They aren't comparable in the slightest, thats all I'm saying. Fair enough on RROD, the 360 has a shocking failure rate I will never exuse them for that mistake like you and others are doing now.
The Watchdog episode contained some very dodgy unofficial failure numbers but on the whole they highlight the cause of the issue quite nicely for the layman. It was nowhere near as biased or bs as the disk scratching episode for the 360.