Thank you for your interest in my post. I guess I should have included a disclaimer "I didn't write the article". Hell, the number seems exagerated to me. The part I'm most interested in is that they are waiting for MS to respond. I expect MS to outright deny the numbers but we'll probably get a non-answer, answer. I posted it as a topic of discussion which is what I thought forums were for. Maybe I'm wrong? 

To answer your questions: I am going to post it twice, which I did. I'm not worried about everyone not seeing it. I posted it in the other thread then thought to myself "this actually probably belongs in a new thread". I'll edit my post in the other thread and delete the link if that will help you sleep better at night. Why would I sell my 360's? I like them. I use them everyday. I don't like the defect rate. If that makes me a 360 hater or PS3 lover then so be it. I don't recall mentioning my love for the PS3 in either of the threads your refering to. You seem a little defensive, why is that?

You seem like a total asshole to me...maybe my posts aren't the ones that are being eyerolled.

Anyway, the early reports are indicating that MS is getting ahold of its overheating problems:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/06/26/30__failure_rate_for_the_360/1

http://www.weplayxbox.com/2007/06/26/the-great-xbox-360-repair-debaclebeen-waiting-over-a-month-for-your-console/

Actually, that article just says that they had two fail in the office and it suggests that people are contacting Microsoft directly.  In fact, the retailer is telling them to contact MS directly and not bring it back. 

@ dallas

Not really, the report states:

"Out the Nintendo Wii, the PS3 and the Xbox 360 the Microsoft product is the only one that we have had constant problems with. In fact when we sell the Xbox 360 we tell customers to contact Microsoft if they "Ever have a problem"."

Meaning retailers don't know if the amount of failures are really dropping. It may be due to customers contacting Microsoft directly instead of going back to the retailer.

So much for 2-3% failure rates.

Well, I'm just saying that from what the article states, that microsoft's introduction of a 2nd heat sink (at least in a few 360's, this seems to be more of a "test" effort thus far) is helping. The question is, how much will this change alone help?

Why the hell has that guy with the 9 360s not sued Microsoft, or simply given up on them, I think I probably would have given up if I had to wait that long. When my PS2 was pretty much dead (it was not really dead, it would just not play blue discs) Sony sent a refurbished one by courier, so my PS2 was swapped for another one on the door. But I suppose there aren't enough couriers for microsoft to do that

I would love it if Microsoft would recall all the 360's in the market and ship out the new ones with quieter drives and the extra GPU heatsink.

That's what it would take to regain the customers trust

No one ever said the failure rates were 2-3%.  Microsoft said that failure rates were "in line with new electronics" and they were vague on purpose.  There is no hard-and-fast numbers for that.  It's just a vague statement. 

That number is too high ,it would mean all the consoles will eventually break in one year and a half at this rate .Maybe it is just one of the worst days of the service of technich assistance .

Curious thing is that the news doesnt come from a "troll " source or blog against MS .If that was reported by the Sony blog then we could safely say it is FUD but the fact is that it comes from a X360 users site .....

And Peter Moore saying the failure rate is only 3% ......sure .