TheRealMafoo on 14 March 2008
I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier...
Remember about a month or two ago when Bill Gates said the 360 will be the most reliable console ever? I bet what they did is improve there QA standards.
If they required every console to go though a burn in phase, I could see this causing two things to happen. One is it would take longer to make one console (as they have more steps in the process), and two is it would reduce the yield. If in the real world 20% of 360's break (just a guess), and MS employs good QA standards, those 20% would never leave the factory.
I bet that's what it is.
