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Originally posted by Gazz@Sep 10 2007, 02:58 AM
The failure rate is taken from a survey amongst retailers and customers and not from MS of course. Ms will never really admit to rates of failure being high or issues with software (vista anybody?) or anything like that.
Wikipedia technical issues link.
30% failure rate link.
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So, you are basing a 30% failure rate on this?
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www.current.com.au wrote recently According to an EB Games store manager, who wished to remain anonymous, failure rates for the Xbox 360 have dropped in recent times but still outweigh hardware failures for competing consoles.
"We are definitely getting faulty hardware returns of the Xbox 360, but no-where near as much as we used to when it first came out," he said.
"On initial launch, it was close to 30 per cent of our [Xbox 360s] were coming back faulty".
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An anonymous dude in Australia says so and there you have it. You manage to read into financial figures to come out the way you want them to, you can't read a financial statement to understand how divisions work.
By the way... when MS made the choice to enter the console business, Bill announced that they were planning on losing 1B to break into the market. They never planned on making money on the original Xbox.