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Shino
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 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: MS having 360 coffin shortages... |
Do they get THAT many back that they can't keep up the demand of making boxes? 
Peter Moore (I think it was him) said 3 to 5% of systems get returned...
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Lying bastard!
Man I hate Peter Moore. Thanks for killing the Dreamcast... ass!
| Joystiq wrote: | Anecdotal: Microsoft low on Xbox 360 coffins
Posted Jun 6th 2007 4:15PM by Alexander Sliwinski
Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360
For the most part, we've given up on reporting every single time one of our colleagues in the gaming press has an Xbox 360 die on them. Frankly, we'd be writing a piece every couple weeks. A brilliant recent example was the Weekly Geek Show's Xbox 360, which we covered, died again in late May. Exactly one month and six days after being "repaired." But, like Peter Moore asked of all of us, we shouldn't focus on the failure rate of Xbox 360s, but on the service in repairing them. And so, we have the story of Officer Craig Ravitch of the New York Police Department.
Officer Ravitch discovered last Friday that his Xbox 360 died on him in a classic New York "You gotta' be frickin' kidding me!" moment. He loves his Xbox 360, it's his "favorite system," but the "constant breaking down is amazing" to him. He called Microsoft, as he's done three times before. This next console will be his fourth since the 360 launch. He bought the $60 two-year warranty after his last failure and also received a 50% repair discount after arguing the last time. Microsoft support told him he'd have his box by Tuesday. After not receiving a confirmation that this Xbox 360 coffin was sent (which he received the last time he did this), he decided to call support again. They informed him his box wasn't sent because "the service department is running very low on boxes, so it will take a little longer than expected to get that box" out to him. Ravitch was shocked. Is Microsoft getting back so many defective systems that they don't have a fresh supply of coffins anymore?
We spoke with Officer Ravitch, who has a 26,000 point Gamerscore and buys about four games a month, and he told us, "As a consumer, I'm extremely, extremely disappointed with the way these consoles are dying. I don't have small children, I'm married, I get my three hours of gaming in when I can." He points out that the time he's lost in the back and fourth transit of his Xbox 360 has cost him three months of Xbox Live and he's thankful that he bought the warranty last time around, despite it being an unnecessary expense. Ravitch was mostly concerned that Microsoft is running low on coffins and now his repair has been delayed by a full week. Ravitch says, "I hate to badmouth the 360, its one of my favorite systems, but this burns me." |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:11 am Post subject: |
Peter Moore didn't kill the Dreamcast, it was already well on its way to dying, besides wasnt he head of SEGA Europe, therefore having nothing to do with Sega of America.
What killed the Dreamcast was SEGA's shite reputation thanks to the Mega CD, 32X and Saturn.
As for this, 5% is incredibly low, although I think the number is alot lower now than it was, it seemed to be just the launch machines that had problems, I've not noticed any heat coming from mine at all tbh |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: |
Well, this is from Wikipedia, so it may not be 100% accurate, but I'll look for a more accurate source.
| Quote: | | After working for Patrick USA, the U.S. subsidiary of the popular French company, and then Reebok, Peter Moore rose to prominence at Sega, being a big figure in the company's North American operations during the Dreamcast era. Moore played a pivotal acting role in the company’s decision to change its business strategy to become a platform-agnostic software publisher. At the time of leaving Moore was president and COO of SEGA of America. |
I have tons of heat coming from mine... and the problem is with the board... the chips actually melt themselves off the board.
That's why the towel trick works... It melts them back on somehow.
They changed the board in the Elite, so we will see if the Elite's track record is better than the current hardware. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: |
whee for melty components. this is still the main reason i haven't even tried to fund a purchase of a 360. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: |
I dont care that the systems break, what I care about is that my 360 has cooked 3 copies of Gears......how the fuck do you make a console that destroys the goddamn (overpriced) games that are made for it. My buddies 360 just cracked his Oblivion disc too.....in half. Plus both Gears & Oblivion have "known" issues......gdwtf'nh but even though they know that their p.o.s. destroys these games they only give you a $20 credit......ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!! |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: |
Aye that is well out of order, I looked at my TDU disc the other day, luckily its not unusable but how the hell do you get side ways scratched on something thats spinning! Fair enough circular mild scratches, or laser marks like the PS2 does, but this has a small straight liine across the middle of it! |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:03 am Post subject: |
Yeah I don't think anyone will disagree that the 360 hardware is a piece of crap.
What I don't get... is why they don't get MORE flack for it than they do. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
Because the software is pretty damn good so people don't care about the hardware while they're getting good games (until it goes wrong anyway) look at the Dreamcast, Officially The Most Loved Console In The World (now its dead) TM yet it had major problems with resetting (easily fixed) and controller ports frying, oh and the laser slipping if I remember rightly.
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