| Zappykins said:
So is it safe to assume then, that Microsoft manufactured a million or more that 70 million for replacements? Say probably a million or more for warranty replacements, and another batch for gifts. |
Your estimate of 1mio extra units is very generous. Roughly the first 12 mio manufactured X360s were "ready to break" revision 0 models. It is anyone's guess on how many they had to actually replace in the end. All we know they had to charge an EXTRA $1.1bio for RROD costs. This extra cost was announced after they had depleted their "normal account for broken stuff" account. We don't kow how much that was, and how much shipping and labour costs were involved with each boken XBox. If we go by $400 RROD costs for every ultimately replaced bad XBox, a good estimate is around 3.5mio extra XBoxes which were produced but never counted, roughly 30% of all the first batch XBoxes.
