[News] Electronic Arts: One in Two or Three XBox 360's is Broken

[Roy Schestowitz]

Gamers Say Microsoft Understates Xbox Problems

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| An insider from Electronic Arts, Inc. is saying that the failure rate
| of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is actually ten times higher than
| what Microsoft spokespeople have admitted.
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| Game Daily BIZ, a gaming industry publication, reported that the
| anonymous source tallied that of the 300 consoles EA has received,
| 30-50 percent of them have failed.
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/08/xbox_gamers02.html

This reminds me of Microsoft releasing stats from its security application,
stating that only one in 50 computers has malware (I saw that last week, I
swear).

*rolls eyes*

[Jim]

Once upon a midnight dreary, while Roy Schestowitz pondered weak and weary
over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:

frickin' OUCH!

I wonder what the 12mf (12 month failure) stats on
NES/SNES/Genesis/Megadrive were?

Probably nowhere near as high.
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