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Legend11 on 24 January 2008
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TheBigFatJ said:
agabara said:
rocketpig said:

Where? I haven't heard of one failure yet that was definitely a Falcon model. I'm sure a few have but I would like to see a few links (and remember that just because it has HDMI doesn't mean it's a Falcon chip).


I can't give a link to a reporting of Falcon model failing, but the fail rate is apparently "sub 10%" if you trust 8Bit Jostick.com, which is a huge improvement from 30% (http://www.8bitjoystick.com/archives/jake_inside_source_reveal_the_truth_about_xbox_360_red_ring_of_death_failures.php). I don't know if that site is a reliable source, though.

 

The 10% number, which is completely bullshit, would still be a huge number, and he goes on to admit that he doesn't know the failure rate.  He's guessing.   Just before he says that, he says, "[The failure rate is] around 30%, and all will probably fail early." That's a discrepancy: he's saying the defective rate is 100% by saying "all will probably fail early." Perhaps he's redefining failure rate as "rate of failure within first 12 months" rather than "rate of failure over expected lifetime."

"This quarter they are expecting 1 M failures, most of those Xenons."

That's one quarter, boys and girls. One quarter. Keep in mind that Microsoft 'repairs' those units and sends them right back out. Many of them wil be cycling through their system for years.

Oh, and here's a 3RROD falcon for you. I can dig up lots if you'd like:

http://img.waffleimages.com/b5df76026dc29e084117d611042db65ec6ee7ecc/trl.jpg

http://img.waffleimages.com/d47c29a4521f7f1bc87c3e609102e3a274a2f188/xboxfalcon.jpg



Could you please explain the following:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9266904&postcount=7118

In a very large thread at NeoGAF in which people report their 360 hardware failures only 3 systems out of 1,267 consoles people reported were falcons.  Of those 3 none were RROD  but instead all 3 systems were reported to have drive failures and all were reported by the same user.

To be honest I don't understand why when it comes to the "Microsoft Insider" source who's numbers you seem to enjoy quoting you choose to believe them without question on everything negative they say about Microsoft and the 360 but call anything positive said "completely bullshit".