Here the thing, Zucas, there's no way to show exactly how low RROD-ing is after the Falcon launched. So it's hard to prove that it's as low as the PS3/Wii, but the fact is, it's a lot lower. Looking at the NeoGAF thread, Falcon RROD's make up a small number of RRODs both in the entirety of X360 failures (of the 1,300 they have archived), but still  make up a incredible minority of RRODs. What happens when you go from seeing 60-70+ failures a month of a specific hardware version, to under 1 per month? What range does that put you into?

If you can point to any sort of semi-conclusive report that's been put out in the past 3-4 months that have hard numbers on X360 failure rates that are confirmed Falcon units, I'd love to see it. Because NeoGAF's master thread is about the closest thing I've seen.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=12331174&postcount=8516

 ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!

EPIC FAILZ on endgadgets part =p

this is so freaking hilarious.

mrstickball don't be in denial.

its still happening.

many of the people i know got rrod.
and then the replacement unit got rrod a month later .

its not a huge as before 30% but its still should be around 10%.

i believe the new jasper will bring it down to 5%-10% but its not going to disappear til a total redesign happen.

Does anyone else realize how foolish it would be, on Microsoft's part, to "announce" a slimline model nearly a year early... thereby impacting sales of the new Jasper and older models *significantly* for nearly the next year?

You can expect some inventory clearance -- either by another price cut (say they reduce the SKUs to just 1, and have it be, effectively a "Pro" model, but priced at $249.99) or by some starvation at the end of the 2nd, or early in the 3rd quarter.

I don't think they'd be foolish enough to starve themselves for nearly a year by tossing out a year-wait carrot to everyone who was on the fence about buying one.

New Xbox name: Xbox 36.

They better include built in wireless this time, that would make me replace my 360.

So what will happen to the people that like custom faceplates?

My Eternal Sonata faceplate set, which an employee from Electronics Boutique most likely took home and sold on ebay, will be sad.

man people really don't know how to read posts eh?

Um, this could really boost sales. Makes me want to buy another one. Maybe Microsoft had this in mind when they claimed they were going to beat Sony this gen.

If they launch this thing with a game at 149, and put a huge advertising campaign behind it, while confirming that there are no more hardware issues behind the scenes....maybe launch Halo 4 with it.

It could turn into a different race than we're seeing now.

I mean, if this is real, we have to rethink our predictions. No use going into denial about that.

So slim console? What about the big ass brick (power box)?