Microsoft admits all Xbox360's are defective

[Slothy]

But the only thing that comments states is that 30% of 360 owners dont have a brain, and thats a pretty harsh comment to make. If 30% have already gotten hardware failure then there is something wrong with the product and yet people are trying to defend microsoft for this. Its obvious the console was rushed. People dont have to have anything against microsoft im just saying that this is bloody annoying for people with their product. From what ive heard it takes a lot less than not keeping it properly ventilated to cause hardware failure. This may not be the case for you, but around 3 million people say otherwise.

Microsoft rushed a console to crush competition, and microsoft is in my very own personal opinion a horrible company, but those two things arent necessarily connected.

Oh, there's no denying that some of them will break no matter how well they're taken care of. But that brings the number to a much lower percentage, although it's probably still higher than should be acceptable with hardware. Point being, if you put 100% of the Xbox 360s in an enclosed space and run them a lot, most of them are probably going to fail. If you put 100% of Xbox 360s in a well-ventilated area and treat them like a person with some intelligence, not nearly that many will malfunction.

And how do you know that? You haven't done the testing required to say how many will actually fail under normal use in a well ventilated area. Let's look at things this way; both of the other next-gen consoles have failure rates below 1%. I can't say for certain with the Wii since I don't have one, but the PS3 produces a lot of heat itself. If a large portion of those 360's that are failing are due to people not letting them ventilate properly then you'd probably see about the same failure rate due to overheating for the PS3, or at least something higher than 1%. That's not the case though which implies to me that either PS3 owners are abnormally smart in comparison to 360 owners, or it dissipates the heat well and the 360 doesn't. Don't try to feed me some crap that 30% of 360 owners are complete morons when failure rates for other consoles are so low in comparison. The console wasn't built well. Obviously it's failing to dissipate heat well under what could be considered typical use by your average consumer, and this is leading to a lot of hardware failures.

I'm not saying this because I have a problem with the 360 as a gaming platform. I'm saying this because it's poorly built. The proof is in the numbers whether you want to admit it or not.

[XxSephirothxX]

It seems logical to me that far fewer than 100% of the consoles will fail in a well-ventilated area because of the millions of 360s sold, they haven't all smurfing broken. I didn't say "only 5% will break in a well ventilated area," I just said that not nearly as many will malfunction. I just don't personally consider it "defective" because overheating can make its insides go to , because that can happen with a variety of other electronic devices. Maybe it's poorly built, but I think that's a different statement, and that the title of the article is not a good representation of what Microsoft said.

[Slothy]

I just don't personally consider it "defective" because overheating can make its insides go to , because that can happen with a variety of other electronic devices.

While it is true that overheating is generally bad for any type of electronic device, it's also true that it's more prone to it by Microsofts own admission because of flawed design. The parts themselves may not technically be defective but the design itself is. And though that won't necessarily make every unit fail (every circumstance is different afterall; some people will use theirs more, or play for longer periods in one sitting, among other factors), it's obviously contributed a great deal to the rediculously high failure rate. Microsoft has said they're fixing the flaw though, so I suppose the real question will be whether or not the failure rates actually fall in the coming months and years.

[Northcrest]

I knew Xbox was retarded. I hope they go out of business.

[Fonzie]

I knew Xbox was retarded. I hope they go out of business.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, or you've never played used an Xbox 360 before.

[Northcrest]

I knew Xbox was retarded. I hope they go out of business.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, or you've never played used an Xbox 360 before.

I already played the Xbox and didn't like it. I doubt that I would like the 360 especially of the horrible games it has.

[Rengori]

I knew Xbox was retarded. I hope they go out of business.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, or you've never played used an Xbox 360 before.

I already played the Xbox and didn't like it. I doubt that I would like the 360 especially of the horrible games it has.

You haven't played the 360 and you say it has horrible games?

[Fonzie]

I knew Xbox was retarded. I hope they go out of business.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, or you've never played used an Xbox 360 before.

I already played the Xbox and didn't like it. I doubt that I would like the 360 especially of the horrible games it has.

I might as well say," I'm going to call you an idiot because I've never meet you before, or talked to you IRL."

[Croyles]

360 has some good games, theres no denying that. Now its time people stop denying that there are really good games for the PS3 too. Especially the media. There are like 10 titles I wanna get all the way from August to December this year.

[Captain Maxx Power]

THE WII PULLS AHEAD AGAIN! GO WII!

Puff! 360 fanboys are starting to disappear!

Everytime a 360 fanboy dies, a Wii fanboy replaces him. Soon all will be enamoured with the technically inferior product of the Wii and thusly gaming will be put back five years

[Madame Adequate]

I doubt that I would like the 360 especially of the horrible games it has.

I agree. I was stupid enough to waste money on a 360, and a number of games for it. These include The Godfather, Fight Night Round 3, Dead Rising, Perfect Dark Zero, Gears of War, Oblivion, Ghost Recon, Burnout Revenge, and Earth Defense Force 2017. Even worse, I've already pre-ordered Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Alan Wake.

I have the buyer's remorse.

[Araciel]

was there a 'best sarcasm' ciddie?

[I Am Stoner]

Digg - Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective

Wow.

I have one, i've had it for almost a year and i've never had a problem with mine ever.

[Croyles]

Ive never had one and ive been having lots of problems with it, I cant imagine how many problems Id have if I had one.

[Baloki]

Remember kids if your XBox360 breaks you lose all your downloaded content as Microsoft don't repair broken 360's they just replace them. Also tbh they should have put out a general recall on systems bought before a certain date, this would have given them the chance to do some testing AND would have prevented the bad press their now receiving. Oh well, hindsight anyone?