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Spectrumglr on 10 May 2008
iron_megalith said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
I wonder if the production costs of the 360 will be reduced with the new Jasper chip? This will mean more profit for MS with every console sold. Cheaper production costs will also mean the selling price of the console will be reduced. Cheaper production of consoles will obviously result in price cuts in all regions that will further boost sales.

This and exclusives might help them pick up the pace. Only thing holding down 360's reputation is RRoD.


i think that without RRoD 1 year head start would have been almost impossible for PS3 to recover.

 

X360 is still held down by RRoD (i still haven't bought one for this reason) and 1 Billion dollars invested by MS to extend warranty surely didn't help MS to fight the "price war" more aggressively. Without RRoD probably by now x360 would cost 199$...



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Rock_on_2008 on 10 May 2008

360 was competing head to head with the PS2 in the 360's first year. RROD has been a major issue. Faulty disk drives are probably as big of an issue as RROD but not spoken about as much as the RROD issue.

360 launch models were reported to be as being as high as 33% RROD. With new chips that has been reduced to 10% RROD. Following the reduction expect RROD in later models to further decrease to below 5% levels. 



Squilliam on 10 May 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:

360 was competing head to head with the PS2 in the 360's first year. RROD has been a major issue. Faulty disk drives are probably as big of an issue as RROD but not spoken about as much as the RROD issue.

360 launch models were reported to be as being as high as 33% RROD. With new chips that has been reduced to 10% RROD. Following the reduction expect RROD in later models to further decrease to below 5% levels. 


So you know the *current* rate of failure?

How come the Xbox is selling at a much higher rate than last year and yet we don't hear so much about the RROD? It's disapeared off the forum pretty much. We get a few "My PS3 has died" and a few RROD cases but nothing like a year ago. Its not directly evidential but its better than what you may have read on the internet 6 months ago which may not have even been a credible source.



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jpain333 on 10 May 2008

honestly I don't know why people talk about "fear"...if you have the warranty then whats da problem? sure it would suck if it had to go for repairs but other than that your moneys not at risk...
only the NES and SNES broke on me...and one of my segas had problems....seems since the ps1 things have been good for me....



Squilliam on 10 May 2008

I had 3 PS2's die on me so for anyone whos really into the Sony camp to complain about it would seem hypocritical. I had to pay for their crappy designs too. With microsoft you don't so the complaints really don't seem to be warranted at this point with under 10% failure rate.

Microsoft pays for their mistakes, Sony does not, you do.

Case closed.



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timmah on 10 May 2008

Ha! Typical MS. Their OS's aren't stable until SP2, their console will finally be stable as of it's second revision. This is exciting! I may finally be able to justify getting one if I'm sure it won't break.



SaviorX on 10 May 2008
jpain333 said:
honestly I don't know why people talk about "fear"...if you have the warranty then whats da problem? sure it would suck if it had to go for repairs but other than that your moneys not at risk...
only the NES and SNES broke on me...and one of my segas had problems....seems since the ps1 things have been good for me....

The problem is you shouldn't have to worry about your system crashing PERIOD. I shouldn't even have to think about my warranty, IMO.

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WiiStation360 on 10 May 2008

Wait, I thought the last update eliminated the RROD?



Darrin_Peppers on 10 May 2008

I am just thankful that my 360 has not received the dreaded red ring of death!!!!



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EggsWithLegs on 10 May 2008
Q_A_X said:
Any failure rate above 2% or so is unacceptable. Infact, any failure rate at all is unacceptable.

You pay for a product, you don't expect it to break.

Unfortunatly thats in an ideal world and we definitely don't live in one of them. Products failure and breakdown are always a risk no matter what you buy. At least it should be fixed soon(ish).