Microsoft Insider: Xbox 360 Team Knowingly Launched Faulty Hardware

[Militis]

I think i will say **** xbox now i shall go to the dark side SONY


P.S sorry master chief

lol

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

3 of my friends have had to replace their 360 and ive had to send mine off.

 

[Ianab]

business is business i am sure this was the most profitable route.....

Having a 30% failure rate because the designer skimped on a $1 piece of aluminium isn't good business

 

[bigspizz]

Having a 30% failure rate because the designer skimped on a $1 piece of aluminium isn't good business

It is considering half of those people are too damn lazy to send them in so it is triple profit...The original box...Not getting it sent back....Buyer just buys a new one...Good business is not making people happy...It is the bottom line...

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

Atleast Microsoft has admited their fault and are fixing them for free. Especially with buyers like me who don't get warrantys.

 

[johnptc]

Having a 30% failure rate because the designer skimped on a $1 piece of aluminium isn't good business

but getting into the market place on time was more profitable than fixing them first rather than later


sorry its about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Onion01]

but getting into the market place on time was more profitable than fixing them first rather than later


sorry its about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

sad, but true

 

[Ianab]

sorry its about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Unfortunatly you are right - but I bet MS wished now that they had spent the extra $1 upfront, and I'm sure that everyone whose unit has failed wish now that they had been charged $2 more for a unit that didn't blow up.

It's now a PR nightmare for MS just because they cut corners in the original design and specced the cooling wrong. The chip is probably running at it's design temp, but the circuit board underneath is getting too hot and thermal cycling is busting the solder joints.

Cheers

Ian

 

[johnptc]

Unfortunatly you are right - but I bet MS wished now that they had spent the extra $1 upfront, and I'm sure that everyone whose unit has failed wish now that they had been charged $2 more for a unit that didn't blow up.

It's now a PR nightmare for MS just because they cut corners in the original design and specced the cooling wrong. The chip is probably running at it's design temp, but the circuit board underneath is getting too hot and thermal cycling is busting the solder joints.

Cheers

Ian

i had a different take............original bad design..........too late to fix it..went to market and now doing the cleanup....

 

[redtailfool]

Its too bad that microsoft cant do hardware the right way. Its a good console but as a technically inclined person , i refuse to buy hardware that
has a failure rate as high as the xbox360.