Mine's never fucked up, knock on wood. And it was used, too. Bought it from a pawn shop. Lucky me I guess.
New Poll Reports Xbox 360 Failure at 42 Percent
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It's "Yellow Light of Death". Never had it happen thankfully. I think it has something to do with the glue they used on the CPU on the older models. I don't know about the PS3 Slims though. Hopefully we'll get more reliable consoles all round next generation.sinclose said:
Also, what's the Wii equivalent? If there is one.
Also, did they take into account the ages of the consoles in question? The 360 came out, what, four years ago? From what I hear, it's not at all unusual for any piece of hardware to have hardware problems by that time. Name brand electronics are built by the lowest bidder, after all. And all it takes is one part going bad. My hard drive died last October, and it wasn't even two years old. If it were the hard drive in a 360, that would be enough to red-ring it.
Given that, I'm more impressed by the low figures for the Wii and PS3, although technically they also aren't as old.
Given that, I'm more impressed by the low figures for the Wii and PS3, although technically they also aren't as old.
It dropped to 42 percent and that good news? No, that's just slightly less crappy news. If your console has a 42% failure rate, it still means you haven't switched your manufacturing materials t something other than cardboard, matchsticks and cheap plastic.
Man, this is incredibad.
A normal company would not stand for more then 10-15% failures in a timespan of 2 or 3 years. (and that's still high) The factories they hired to produce/repair Xbox components must really be the cheapest they found.
If M$ would have just spent an extra 50 cents per console they probably ended up at different factories with much lesser failure rates as a result. Now all those extra repairs is making huge dents in the profit margins!
But i also can understand that 50 cents per console is a shitload of money if you have to produce... what? 50 million or so?
Still M$ should not have been so greedy. Whoever was responsible for dealing with the factories is probably fired allready or at least should be!
As a hardware enthousiast it is nice to know that all those fanboys are playing those games on overpriced and inferior hardware.
A normal company would not stand for more then 10-15% failures in a timespan of 2 or 3 years. (and that's still high) The factories they hired to produce/repair Xbox components must really be the cheapest they found.
If M$ would have just spent an extra 50 cents per console they probably ended up at different factories with much lesser failure rates as a result. Now all those extra repairs is making huge dents in the profit margins!
But i also can understand that 50 cents per console is a shitload of money if you have to produce... what? 50 million or so?
Still M$ should not have been so greedy. Whoever was responsible for dealing with the factories is probably fired allready or at least should be!
As a hardware enthousiast it is nice to know that all those fanboys are playing those games on overpriced and inferior hardware.
same here i gotta send mine in now. and warranty expired so im thinking getting an elite al together and im on my 3rd after i replace this one...sadx12 said:
im on my second slim... and i got my slim in november. also 42% is riciculously high.Mr. Mike said:
