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Boutros on 24 August 2009

Oh well I feel better now after having posted that very controversial article one week ago.



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yo_john117 on 24 August 2009
CGI-Quality said:
izaaz101 said:
heruamon said:
Well...I've bought 6 360s, and not ONE of them has RROD...not a since one....knock on wood. So, I guess I'm making up for those people who've had 9 and 10 all by their lonsome self...

Question: why 6 360's?

GOOD question... O_o

Better question...Why not



Garnett on 24 August 2009
CGI-Quality said:
yo_john117 said:
CGI-Quality said:
izaaz101 said:
heruamon said:
Well...I've bought 6 360s, and not ONE of them has RROD...not a since one....knock on wood. So, I guess I'm making up for those people who've had 9 and 10 all by their lonsome self...

Question: why 6 360's?

GOOD question... O_o

Better question...Why not

Why NOT? Um, why does one need 6 systems?

Simple....

 

6 Three Sixty means that Three of them are goign to Red Ring (50% Failure rate) and the other 3 he will be trading in for a PS3 slim.



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Orca_Azure on 24 August 2009

damn...the legal defense of the guilty- answer the question with something completely irrelevant. ;o though they do have the best warranty in the industry



Xoj on 24 August 2009
POrca_Azure said:
damn...the legal defense of the guilty- answer the question with something completely irrelevant. ;o though they do have the best warranty in the industry

Panasonic have also 3 year warranty on all their LCD and Plasma, but theirs are well built.

 



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heruamon on 24 August 2009
Scoobes said:
heruamon said:
Scoobes said:
NJ5 said:
I think people got used to ignore hardware failures during the PS1 and PS2 era.

Not saying the PS1 and PS2 were as bad as the 360 is, but they were still pretty bad in terms of reliability.

That actually is what makes me NOT want a 360. I hated when my PS2 failed on me, so much so I promised myself never to buy a known faulty console. I held off on buying a PS3 because I wanted to be sure it was reliable (that and waiting for 1st price drop). I refuse to spend money on a 360 due to reliability.  Bit of a shame because I'd love to tryout Fable 2 and Gears of War.


Yeah, but unless that faulty ps2...you get it repaired for free...sure you lose time playing...but I've got so many options, if my 360 was OOC, I could simply play PC games, like I'm doing down with Champions Beta, while playing Shadow Complex, and tryign to get geared up to start playing madden.  Now, if M$ was like "Fuck You" customer...then gamers would have a very legitimate gripe...imho.

Thats where you and me differ, it's not the cost that annoys me so much as the hassle of having to go through customer services and get them to send me a new/repaired console. Its a waste of my personal time to get something sorted that really shouldn't be a problem in the first place. I'm lazy like that . Of course paying for that repair is worse, but its too much hassle either way.

Touche'....it's you're right, but let me ask this question...you said the ps2 drove you batty...but at hte end of the day, you ended up getting a ps3...regardless of the fact that you waited...in fact...did you buy a 360 when it was released...before RROD was a known problem?  My point is one of brand loyalty...you got burned with ps2, but you STILL bought a ps3.  The engineering problem can be fixed...hardware isn't software, and MTBF can be much easier to determine.  M$ next console will have the reliability necessary, and buyers will remember RROD, but they will also remeber that M$ had a 3-year warranty on the product.  It's interesting...supposedly, the original xbox's hit was the story lifespan, now this console's problem is RROD....but I digress.....



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yo_john117 on 24 August 2009
CGI-Quality said:
yo_john117 said:
CGI-Quality said:
izaaz101 said:
heruamon said:
Well...I've bought 6 360s, and not ONE of them has RROD...not a since one....knock on wood. So, I guess I'm making up for those people who've had 9 and 10 all by their lonsome self...

Question: why 6 360's?

GOOD question... O_o

Better question...Why not

Why NOT? Um, why does one need 6 systems?

Well for starters...Epic lan parties!!  And he can have one in just about every room!  Just imagine you have to take a really big crap, so your gonna be in the tanker for a while.  Instead of reading a boring magazine you can play some Halo online whilst you take that shit!!! 

heruamon's friends-Dude whats up?

heruamon-not much, just taking the biggest shit of my life

heruamon's friends-Wait so you're playing Halo while taking a shit?!?  How??

heruamon-totally dude, I got a 360 in my bathroom!

heruamon's friends-Thats the most awesome thing I've ever heard!!!  Your my new hero!

Now tell me that isn't a whole bunch of win!!!



durtysouthhustlah on 24 August 2009
BladeOfGod said:
yo_john117 said:

The fail-rate of all 360's put together probably are around 54% But the fail rate of the new 360 models are way way lowere. Probably around 10%

And then there's that little thing called 3 year warrenty and such. So should you worry about it? the answer to that is no.

you do know most of people get RROD after the warrenty rans out?

And yet it still has an 8M console lead, tons of exclusive content and games (L4D and L4D2, Mass Effect, Gears, Halo - and GTAIV DLC) and still manages to outsell the PS3 without much of a lose. Sony had to change their playbook to get back into the game. Yeah, with a 54 percent fail rate, they are still trucking. So much phail, son.



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durtysouthhustlah on 24 August 2009
Garnett said:

@Axumblade but the fact is MS still takes care of there customers :) While Sony did not last gen despite having the best selling console last gen.

It took a class-action lawsuit for Sony to act. And this is coming for an ex-Sony bot with 2 PS2s repaired for DREs!



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Shadowblind on 24 August 2009
Orca_Azure said:
damn...the legal defense of the guilty- answer the question with something completely irrelevant. ;o though they do have the best warranty in the industry

Do they REALLY have the best warrenty in the industry?



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