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 Xbox 360 and the deathly hardware failures

Posted by Victor Godinez
11:03 AM, July 23, 2007

So let's just get all of our Xbox 360 bashing out of the way early this week.

From Saturday, here's my column on all the recent problems Microsoft has been having with its gaming console, from missed sales goals to executive departures to hardware flaws.

And speaking of hardware flaws, Bill Harris over at Dubious Quality has some great follow-up on just how extensive the Red Ring of Death syndrome is.

Bottom line, Microsoft will end up just throwing away almost 1.5 million consoles that are simply too flawed to be repaired, and the overall failure rate for the system is about 25 percent.

Maybe they'll bury all those junked consoles on top of the infamous pile of ET cartridges.

UPDATE: Oh, and apparently Brian Crecente over at Kotaku just had his ninth Xbox 360 die on him.

The mind boggles.

Comments

hey um... can the same problem occur to the xbox elite??? if not, then he should have bought that before wasting his money on 9 360's.

Doug note: I've had the original 2005 version 360 since day one and the Elite since it's introduction... no problems at all (knock on wood).

Posted by: Don | August 7, 2007 3:48 PM

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