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New Xbox 360s still have high failure rate
The Seattle Post Intelligencer has a very interesting interview with someone close to the dreaded “red ring of death” (RROD) failures that the Xbox 360 has suffered since its launch. The anonymous source gives some interesting insights into why so many Xbox 360s might have croaked, with reasons ranging from motherboard timing problems, to poor heat dissipation, to defective or insufficient heat sinks, and more.
Apparently, Microsoft was so focused on beating Sony this cycle that the 360 was rushed to market when all indications were that it had serious flaws. He also revealed that the newer, cooler running processors installed in the new Xbox 360s have reduced the console’s failure rate from 30 to 10 percent. Quite an improvement, but still unacceptably high compared to its rivals the Nintendo Wii and PS3. Read the full interview here.
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User Comments (3)
Post a comment| snilmmn on January 21, 2008 4:24 PM | 30% failure rate? That is absolutely ludicrous. They would not be allowed to put the Xbox 360 on the market with results like that. Even 10% is outrageous. I think that the interviewee is some sort of anti-MS fanboy because there is no way in hell those numbers are correct.
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| jtickner1 on January 21, 2008 6:22 PM | They are correct. look it up. They used to have something like a 33% failure rate while the PS3 still has only a 0.3% failure rate.
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| howzz1854 on January 23, 2008 2:21 AM | even if the above is true, i SERIOUSLY doubt that PS3 "only" has 0.3%, my buds and i all play games here, and it is totally not 0.3%.
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