Its over for the 360

[rocketpig]

NYANKS said:

rocketpig said:
MS will definitely drop the price. They can't maintain sales with only a $50 price drop in 36 months.

It's pure fanboyism to think that the RRoD will affect them that much. They wrote it off in fiscal 2006. It's a done deal.

Okay, I admit I don't really understand this.  Did they write off future repair costs for the next few years.  It seems like RRoD is still quite a large problem.  Are they not incurring debts on top of the 2006 write off for the still significant amount of failures?

They wrote off about 1 billion dollars. They expected that to be enough to last the entire generation. Whether that is the case remains to be seen, but it's definitely enough for at least 2008. They wouldn't have underestimated the failures that badly. After all, they had 1 1/2 years of info when they upped the warranty and they know the true numbers better than anyone.