is the Xbox 360 really prone to failures?

I've read some pretty disturbing stories coming from 360 users reporting all
kinds of erratic and random failures on their machines. I read some users
are already on their FOURTH(!) Xbox 360; another figure I read suggested
60%(!) of 360s could be faulty. Unlikely, maybe. But still. There seems to
be more customer complaint traffic about this console than any other, but
maybe that's because it's so "next gen". That's no excuse though; why the
hell don't they test these things to death prior to launch???

Fingers crossed they have all bugs ironed out before Halo3 launches; surely
Halo3 will be THE defining game for the 360, much like Halo was for the
Xbox. If the bugs aren't fixed for the launch of such a big game, I'd hate
to be an MS technical support employee when the **** hits the fan.

Tim

On May 23, 2:32 pm, "Tim.T" <b...@blah.com> wrote:
> I've read some pretty disturbing stories coming from 360 users reporting all
> kinds of erratic and random failures on their machines. I read some users
> are already on their FOURTH(!) Xbox 360; another figure I read suggested
> 60%(!) of 360s could be faulty. Unlikely, maybe. But still. There seems to
> be more customer complaint traffic about this console than any other, but
> maybe that's because it's so "next gen". That's no excuse though; why the
> hell don't they test these things to death prior to launch???
>
> Fingers crossed they have all bugs ironed out before Halo3 launches; surely
> Halo3 will be THE defining game for the 360, much like Halo was for the
> Xbox. If the bugs aren't fixed for the launch of such a big game, I'd hate
> to be an MS technical support employee when the **** hits the fan.
>
> Tim

they can test their consuls all they want but when they enter the real
world there are different senarios. I dont have many problems with
my xbox 360 but there are horror stories and microsoft is very aware
of them. One guy went through 6 boxs and started to complain on the
microsoft forums and microsoft sent him one that worked perfectly so
he would shut up.

"Tim.T" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
news:e%23f8piWnHHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> I've read some pretty disturbing stories coming from 360 users reporting
all
> kinds of erratic and random failures on their machines. I read some users
> are already on their FOURTH(!) Xbox 360; another figure I read suggested
> 60%(!) of 360s could be faulty. Unlikely, maybe. But still. There seems to
> be more customer complaint traffic about this console than any other, but
> maybe that's because it's so "next gen". That's no excuse though; why the
> hell don't they test these things to death prior to launch???

There's always lemons. I've had no problems with mine since we bought it new
in Feb. I did get the add-on fan.

On May 25, 7:06 pm, "R.R>" <alg...@carbonbuttprint.org> wrote:
> "Tim.T" <b...@blah.com> wrote in message
>
> news:e%23f8piWnHHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> > I've read some pretty disturbing stories coming from 360 users reporting
> all
> > kinds of erratic and random failures on their machines. I read some users
> > are already on their FOURTH(!) Xbox 360; another figure I read suggested
> > 60%(!) of 360s could be faulty. Unlikely, maybe. But still. There seems to
> > be more customer complaint traffic about this console than any other, but
> > maybe that's because it's so "next gen". That's no excuse though; why the
> > hell don't they test these things to death prior to launch???
>
> There's always lemons. I've had no problems with mine since we bought it new
> in Feb. I did get the add-on fan.

i got a fan to and in a few weeks it stop working properly.