Alby_da_Wolf said:
Kissinger said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
twesterm said:
And stories like that is why I don't read VGChartz news. Seriously guys, just because an older 360 RRoD's and it had Kinect, that doesn't mean Kinect caused it. You could only possibly try to draw that conclusion if the RRoD wasn't a big issue before Kinect.
I thought we at least had someone to quickly scan stories so jokes like that didn't end up on the site or are we just trolling for hits on the news site now?
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And none of that was directed at the OP, that was pretty much all directed on whoever wrote the article and whoever approved the article.
Seriously, at least try to give the news site some integrity.
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Yep, the issue is actually exclusively with old surviving boxes, whatever CPU intensive application could deal them the death blow anytime.
I was wondering, though, how much would it cost MS to do a recall on the surviving units at risk, and definitively solve the problem: car manufacturers routinely do it, with costs a lot higher and having to deal with profit margins a lot lower on their products, particularly now that MS has cheap and reliable mobos and components available. And so, if it's feasible, I guess that choosing just Ballmer in the company to blame for not doing it could be not so far stretched, after all he's the greedy one that a few years ago cut benefits to the most profitable employees in the world...
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Do you mean like Sony did with the PS1 and PS2? Can you actually name a console manufacturer that has had a recall like that?
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None ever did. But none ever had a reliability issue so serious, widespread and lasting for so long before getting a definitive solution, and dealing a blow so hard to their reputation. I remember optical drive reliability problems in early Playstations, 1, 2 and 3, but fault rate was never as high as the first XB360 units and fault rate was quickly brought back to slightly better than industry average, while Nintendo enjoys a reliability far better than average, for example. RRoDs will continue until every vulnerable unit will be dead, MS has a quite fair extended warranty policy that solves the problem after it happens, but only a recall could prevent it and solve it definitively. Maybe, it's just matter of waiting for the remaining units to replace being few enough and the cost to fix them low enough to make the image return high enough for MS to consider the deal advantageous...
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