Todd Holmdahl talks about 360 failure rates

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OriGin,
I'm the the same boat with you on this.

Personally, the biggest thing that turns me off about the 360 is it's absurd failure rate. Every person I know who owns a 360 has had to return it to M$ to have it repaired.

I know quite a few people with Xboxs as it seems to be the main console of choice where I'm at.

I've had a horrible time with Sony's PS2 in the past -some of you might have read about my three PS2's- yet I'm quite surpised at the stability of the PS3 so far, and that is only been highlighted to the asinine problems with 360.

The fact that MS is not willing to dispel the sometimes ridiculous, overbloated claims and hypothosized percentages ( I've personally seen upwards to 80% on anti-M$ blogs >_
The gaming community is one of the very few places I've seen in which a large portion of people will buy high priced goods that faill, yet still remain adamantly supportive of that product. I'm telling you, cognitive dissonance plays a huge factor here guys.

But for a visualization, can you imagine people buying lemon cars and sticking by them simply because they like them or find them cool?

I was hoping that at least with the Elite, that many of the major issues with the 360 would have been solved. I don't have any raw data, but there seems to be too many reports of the red lights of death, disk scratching and alike to have had any real problems solved.

Seems to me MS has done itself something good through all this, anyone who buys a used 360 at this point is an idiot, as it's like purchasing an un-insured piece of shit. At least you get a "free" year of repairs when you buy a new Xbox.