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superchunk on 10 December 2007
SpookyXJ said:
Come on superchunk failures are all anecdotal evidence. Who came up with the 30-33% figure anyway. I doubt we will ever actually know the real failure rate. As for more useless observations I know 4 people other than me with 360s one of which is a launch system none have RROD.

I have a second shipment system thats still chugging along just fine.

You could very well be right, however, my impression thus far has been really bad. I still think the failure rate is far worse than anything MS is willing to admit. (btw, MS is who came up with the 30-33% failure rate when they announced the new 3 year warranty for RROD)

 



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SpookyXJ on 10 December 2007

I have no doubt its way higher than it ought to be. Just pointing out that its not as bad as you pictured it in your first post. I did not realize MS had released that figure. I'm suprised they would give themselves that much bad PR.

 EDIT: Just did a search MS has never admited to a more than 5% Failure rate. the 30 percent number comes from retailer reports.



Lost tears of Kain on 10 December 2007

had mine since launch and it still works really well........



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kcua_626 on 10 December 2007

Me too, I had mine from launch and it still works, 2005 manufacturing date.



Moongoddess256 on 11 December 2007

My first 360 broke after 3 days. I brought it back to the store and the new one hasn't broke yet.



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TheBigFatJ on 11 December 2007
friedtofu said:

I cant wait a month for my Xbox to return sooooooo I decided to order a new Xbox 360 Arcade Unit from Amazon. It comes with the free Beautiful Katamari and Viva Pinata (cool!). Plus I think most of the new Arcade units have hdmi and new 65nm cpu. Should get here by the end of the week. I already have a hard drive so it seems like the best choice eh?  


You're getting Viva Pinata: Party Animals.  Not Viva Pinata.  There's a big difference -- your Arcade Xbox comes with the shitty one.

EDIT: Just did a search MS has never admited to a more than 5% Failure rate. 

MS never admitted to any hardware failure rate.  Not 3-5%, nothing.  USA Today doesn't know how to quote, and so they replaced Microsoft's PR quote of "not outside of normal bounds" to be "less than 3-5%".

The 360 failure rate is well north of 50%. There's no way it's less than that.  If you look at even a reasonable sample size, you'll find very few people with Xbox 360s more than 18 months old and many (if not most) moderately used Xbox 360s seem to fail within 12 months.  A disappointing amount fail within a month (brand new these days).



Jessman on 11 December 2007

New FALCON chipset should cut the % of RR0D by HEAPS.



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kirby007 on 11 December 2007
libellule said:
you should have spent ur money on a Wii/PS3 or even a PS2 man ...

they will not break !!!


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kn on 11 December 2007

I highly doubt microsoft would be shipping repackaged cores as they know that at some point they will RROD. I've read numerous places that microsoft isn't shipping out any old hardware any more -- including repaired units...

I have contemplated an elite for the big hard drive and HDMI port but it isn't worth it. If I was going to buy ANOTHER console, it wouldn't be a duplicate unless I could sell my used one for a great price. Unfortunately, they aren't bringing much in the secondhand market.



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Jandre02 on 11 December 2007

Hahaha did i just read the 360 turns itself off if it gets to hot?

Does that not bother anyone else that that should need to happen? I do have a 360, and it does get hot, but holy crap I can't believe that a gaming console could get so hot that it would need to turn itself off. I wont add any other comment to avoid a flame war tho...