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windbane on 21 May 2008
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starcraft said:
Famine said:
 

Yeah, it was enclosed in a small plastic casing, with holes on the sides and one in the middle for airflow. All the other 360s worked fine, but this one just had a bad case of airflow. That one particular 360 needed some liquid nitrogen in the back.

There were two likely scenarios regarding what happened; pick your poison.

Don't try to weasel your wat out of this one:

The funny thing is, over the last few months we've had far more reports of PS3's failing than 360's. Whilst Microsoft is clearly showing success in bringing their failure rate down (to the point that I haven't heard a single example of a post-October manufactured console Rroding), the PS3 is proving to be poorly receptive to software updates, certain games (GTAIV, AC) and disk errors.

The funny thing is you didn't say they were similar in occurence, rather, the PS3s now break down more easily than 360s.

Software updates did not break PS3s, which is what you intended. They may not have fixed the problem, but they certainly didn't break them. If that were the case, don't you think Sony would be liable?

AC had a fault and was corrected by Ubisoft, just like Rockstar made and still are trying to correct theirs.

The most clear-cut one that you have is the disk read error, but even with that, you mean to tell me they are similar in occurence with the 360's RRoD?

I'm going to ask you one more time to either provide some quantitative evidence that the GDC Rrod Xbox 360 was a recent model, or to straight-out acknowledge that you don't know if it was or not?

I also didn't say that the PS3 now breaks down more than the Xbox 360, but that we have heard more reports of it in the last few months.  Do you dispute that?

As for software updates and gaming software breaking PS3's?  Sony IS liable.  Didn't you read the threads?  Sony has replaced the ones that were in warranty, and charged to repair the ones that had disk errors or GTAIV problems and were out of warranty.  

As for your final question, I haven't made a single sweeping statement about actual failure rates, but simply challenged the misconception that Rrod is more than a rare occurence in new Xbox 360's.  But as you DO seem to be making sweeping statements, how about you back them up with some evidence? 

 


yeah, it's crazy that between all 5 of you xbot fanboys that we never see any "reports" of hardware problems anymore on this forum.