Xbox 360 failure rates are reportedly down to PS3 levels, just as the generation comes to a close

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Adinnieken said:

happydolphin said:

slowmo said:

 knowing they could fix any possible issue in future hardware spins.

@italics. That's your justification?? That's exactly the issue. They didn't QA it adequately enough so this didn't have to happen. It's one thing for you to say they didn't expect the failure rate they had, it's another to haze it out with your usual minor failure rate that can be fixed post-launch.

 

I'll not start a huge quote tree so I edited your post out but I think you'll find I agreed with what you said in my last post.  I admit I didn't know aware Microsoft was before launch as I didn't believe it had ever come out publically. 

I've serviced/repaired over a thousand 360's so I have some idea what faults occur and why also.  Without a doubt with hindsight the vast majority of RROD issues would have been drastically reduced with a thicker PCB to stop the board warping.  Of course increasing board thickness would have affected all the timing so was never a cost effective solution early in the consoles lifespan.  I agree that the issue was vastly reduced with the Falcon, the combination of better Heatsinks, better chassis and lower Heat output from both CPU and GPU all would contribute to improved  reliability.  Jasper improved this even further again.

 

Nice post though, always a pleasure to learn something new each day.