Some 360's Won't read discs. MS to replace with Free system, year of Gold

[Mr Puggsly]

thranx said:

Mr Puggsly said:

thranx said:

Glad to see ms step up to the plate and get things done. Looks like they have learned their lesson from the RROD. Good for them.

I don't see how this relates to RROD at all.

RROD wasn't planned. To the contrary, MS is going into this update with the anticipation of some consoles not working properly. In this case they have to be prepared to cover people beforehand.

I would say its realted because they learned from the RROD experience that they need to better test out their equiptment to find its flaws and than to make things right for the end user through just compensation. Gives me hope the next xbox will not have those issues.

RROD was a problem that really blew up over time. People were using the console for years with no problem. MS made good by extending warranties three years for hardware failures.

To the contrary, this update is going to make some consoles not work properly after the installation. Hence, this problem didn't take much testing to figure out.

MS has compensated people in the past for unexpected failures. This time they anticipate failures and have set up a plan that actually makes a lot of people want a hardware failure.