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Mazty on 27 March 2013
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J_Allard said:
Mazty said:

Very interesting although two things:

1) "Microsoft’s policy may result in an underreporting of failures by Xbox 360 owners to SquareTrade, relative to the other two consoles. Because the RROD problem is so widely known to be covered by Microsoft’s warranty, we believe that more customers bypass SquareTrade and reported failures directly to the Microsoft. In a survey of SquareTrade customers with Xbox 360s conducted by email, SquareTrade found that over half of our customers who experienced a RROD error reported their problem directly to Microsoft without contacting SquareTrade."

2) MS Warranty extends for a year past SquareTrades own warranty, meaning that many failures could go unreported. 

Still, by all means, I think it's safe to assume a failure rate somewhere inbetween 25-50% which is still fucking terrible to be blunt. Nevertheless good find by you.

lol no.. the link proves that not to be a safe assumption. Also remember the failure rates are only "high" for early models. For most of this generation, this has not been an issue.

50% LOL

So I'm guessing you have no idea how information analysis works do you? One source of evidence =/= trump another if both are valid, and both are valid. If you read your source, which you clearly didn't, they admit that the failure rate is propably more around ~35%, and again that's not including the fact that it is only for 2 years, not 3 which the MS warranty covers. 

If you have no idea how stat analysis works, please don't talk about it as if you do because saying "50% LOL" just makes you sound incredibly ignorant. 

 

sales2099 said:

The origional point of this RROD quote spree was about money lost. And I assure you, Sony lost more money on PS3 merely existing then MS lost on RROD.

By all means, 360s today have nowehere near that kind of failure rate. Arguing about failure rates from older 360 models makes no sense.


Unless you can prove it that is just a wild guess worth nothing. The xbox looked to have at least 3 years of RROD issues, and with a failure rate between 25-50%, that will have cost them a lot of money and gained them nothing in return. At least Sony can spin a profit on the likes of bluray. 

 

slowmo said:

Right, so a scientific survey with good analysis gets criticism by you, while your "survey" got a free pass because it suited your agenda?  I think you've shown your true colours once again.

Strawman argument. If you want to come up with issues with my source of evidence, feel free to do so, but I know both are not flawless hence why both have to be considered. 
My true colours is that I've studied this kind of thing at uni. The only "true colours" shown here are how many people are happy to argue about a topic they are woefully uneducated in. Would you argue quantum physics with a physicist? No. So why argue buisness analytics when you have zero education on stat analysis?