5% of XBOX360s overheating, 2% DOA, and 1% scratching discs reports XBOX360Fanboy
Fan site XBOX360Fanboy.com is reporting that 5% of readers claim their XBOX 360 is overheating. Additionally, 2% report the unit was dead on arrival, and 1% reported that the XBOX360 was scratching their discs. Not a great start, but understandable given the scale and timing of the launch.
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(Page 1 of 1)2. Actually if you look at the categories, 3 of 'em are 'throw away', implying the commenter didn't have an XBOX 360 (last three options) So from the first 4: Overheating: 14% Scratching Disks: 3.3% Working Great: 76.9% DOA: 5.76% 23% of 360s delivered as defective :) But agreed, the poll is tad skewed to readership.
Posted at 6:11PM on Nov 24th 2005 by dykmoby
3. Well I don't see a problem with the above survey, as most gamers use the internet regularly too. It wouldn't matter what games I played on what console, I'm still geeky enough to have to browse the web a little every day, am I alone in this obsessive compulsive disorder?
4. They should just have those polls on the Xbox 360 interface. It's obvioulsy skewed. It would be a bigger deal if 23% of all Xbox 360s were defective. People generally ignore polls when nothing's wrong, but if you have a broken, smoldering machine your eye catches this sort of thing. If it's overheating, you just have to bring it into a more open space. Also check room temperature. If you're uncomfortably hot, so is your console.
Posted at 7:29PM on Nov 24th 2005 by Lavarock
5. Apple's iMac G5 also had large failure rates. A good discussion (with thousands of responses to the survey) showed failure rates of a lot of popular Apple models...the iMAC 20"at 31% and 17" at 18%. Scroll down the following page at MacInTouch: http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/ I'm lucky my ver.1 20" iMac hasn't had any of these probs. Ash
6. Yeah it was understandable that the 360's would overheat, the main problem could be the lack of sufficent cooling and fans. I say this as a owner of a mac G5 tower with dual processors it has to be water cooled and have several fans just so that it doesn't over heat, this is a processor that apple themselves are phasing out because of things like heat issues, and this is my second G5 tower , as I had one of the first generation ones and they ran notoriously hot ( they can't make a laptop because it just gets way to hot) the idea that microsoft would build a machine with a processor that is known to have quite a few heat issues was rather arrogant on their part, they new the potential for massive problems was there when they put these processors as a triple core style on a board ( the new apple quad core processors are alll water cooled) the machince that microsoft built may just be too small and nor vented well enough to have a long life with that powerpc processor ( this is common sense) it seems like they were more concerned about beating sony to market than solving this major issue
Posted at 5:04PM on Nov 27th 2005 by James C
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1. This is adverse selection at its finest. The ones that aren't having any trouble are busy playing the game. The ones that are having trouble are busy on web sites reporting their troubles.
Posted at 5:49PM on Nov 24th 2005 by bigtallmofo