| Sqrl said: It is worth mentioning that the newer models most certainly seemed to have improved the failure rate and significantly so, no doubt about that. But I strongly disagree that this issue shouldn't be beaten into the heads of every potential consumer. MS made the choice to skimp on cooling and apparently to skimp on QA..so they should pay the price and yes that price includes more than the $1.1B they put up to fix all of these problems..it also includes a legend that simply will not die..and when failure rates are this high..they earned it. Does it mean people shouldn't buy a 360? Of course not, thats just ignoring reality. |
I am baffled by your logic. So, even if Microsoft fixes the problem and extended their warranty, then threads regarding the failure rates of the first revision of the 360 should be posted on a regular basis just to remind everyone that it happened. Microsoft had a design flaw that cost them alot of money and is/was a headache for alot of consumers. They took steps to correct it and try and repair their image. They didn't murder puppies and hurd people into gas chambers. Microsoft will get whatever reputation they earned, good or bad. These threads are just fanboy attacks on the 360 though. The internet doesn't need annual war memorial threads to remind people of broken 360s.
Unless people start threads with new information, then they are just beating a dead horse.
Thank god for the disable signatures option.
