[opendtv] Re: Microsoft Ups the Console Ante

I have an XBox 360 that hasn't overheated or crashed. I have friends at work 
who have XBox 360's that haven't overheated or crashed.

Every time a new game system comes out, the inevitable stories about 
people's systems overheating or crashing start up. It happened with the 
Jaguar, the 3DO, the Saturn, the Dreamcast, the Playstation 1, the 
Playstation 2, the XBox, and the Gamecube. I've owned all of those systems, 
and have never had them crash or lock up other than because of a scratched 
disc. When the Playstation 3 comes out, there will be stories of disgruntled 
owners whose machines locked up on them or crashed. It's like clockwork.

Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, though not in the XBox group. I have 
no special information about failure rates for the XBox or any other game 
system. I just used to work in the videogame business, and have seen 
innumerable articles (and Usenet postings, forum postings, Compuserve 
postings, blog postings, etc.) suggesting that there is something 
extra-specially bad about each particular game system as it was released. 
It's as inevitable as death and taxes. I just cannot understand how people 
think they can generalize from a single data point, or from a self-selected 
group of upset people.

Yes, some percentage of consumer electronic products fail early. Alert the 
media.

Don

From: "Cliff Benham" <cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 8:28 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Microsoft Ups the Console Ante


> REALLY?  Have you been watching TV in the last day or two?
> Have you somehow missed all the news stories about the "early adoptors"
> who are complaining about their brand new  X Box 360s crashing on startup,
> going to black and distorting all the 'wonderful' graphics and
> apparently overheating?
>
> This one appears to be no different from their other previous products.
>
> There are several blogs where people are complaining...

 
 
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