Post here if you 360 works great!!! (battling Negitive thread)

There are also a whole lot of people who have there console sitting in one spot where it doesn't move and are very careful with it to the point of being anal. that would be me, and still have their system break. I know this may or may not matter, I'm 35 own my own company that does computer repair, programming, 3d animations and about every other geeky thing you can do on a pc. I used to teach collage classes on programming languages and the like. I'm MSCE, MCP certified. My point I'm trying to make is you'de think that I would know how to handle electronics and wouldn't do someting stupid right? Of course. The background isn't to brag or say i'm smart, it's because I want to paint a picture where a whole lot of people are like me and not some 7 year old kid running around knocking there 360 over while it's running because they don't know any better. A lot of 360 owners are technically savy and smart and they still have problems. Why? Because bottom line is the 360 has defects and MS has even admitted it's so.

That said, I'll choose to believe that the majority of the problems stem from the defects that MS have said are there. As for the other percentage I'll believe that's the 1% problem that Sony, MS and Nintendo all share, that being a problemed consumer.

But again I completely agree with you.

"Now I agree with your post.. We all understand that yes the systems are touching and yes there are a decent amount of people out there that have had problems including me. When people post things that say MS said "all their system are faulty" is crazy to me..If that was the case MS would do a recall on the systems..If they did not they would get hit with tones of lawsuits..I also played the crap out of that system that broke on memaybe there was a defect in that box..I also purchased a second 360 so my wife can play the games she like in another room..."

Here's another point of view on that.

MS built a machine that does have design flaws across the board, meaning every system.

Whether it be the soldier they used or the placement of the capacitors, or even the size of there heat sink. Knowing they have a flaw that has a good chance of red lighting everyones systems they have two options. Either do a recall... ie.. huge money, bigger than the 1 billion they are already willing to fork out. Or extend the warranty to a healthy amount of time and hope that a good percentage of the systems they have out get lucky and don't fail before something else not covered goes wrong, or the consumer moves on to another console. Trust me they'de much rather repair your console and charge you because little timmy dumped a glass of water on his brothers 360 than to repair it for a recall.

At this point I think MS could indeed say the system has a potential to fail and not get hit with lawsuits because they are being proactive and extending the warranty to so long. They just go to court and say your honor, we extended the warranty a full 3 years to cover this already because we recogonized it as a very real potential problem.

The math would be something like this:

Issue a recall and fix every single machine out there. Which in turn would kill consumer confidance in the 360 and MS's future machines

or

Offer a 3 year warranty and roll the dice on how many machines will actually fail and only pay to repair that many. All the while looking like a good guy and also not really letting out the severity of the problem.

Beyond that if they did own up to a full fledged recall of every single system out there consumer confidance would plummet far far lower than it is now. They choose to take the road that looks like they are being generous, to do a recall would look them make cheap and out for a quick buck just to save there butts.

It's called business.

Go ask Firestone how big of a hit they took when they did there tire recall.

Also I'm not saying MS has said it's an inherant design flaw to every system. I just wouldn't be surprised if that was the truth.

Make something on the cheap and you're bound to have problems. I know they aren't cheap to make, but maybe MS spent a little less money somewhere than it should have and now it's bitting them in the butt.

I have a launch system and no problems at all.

See my sig. :D

Well I never said that I never had one break on me. My first one did one week after the warranty ended..I had to pay to get it fixed..Now I made this thread to try andstop all the negativity about the 360...My post said "Post here if your 360 works great". Since i have posted this thread some people like to leave ignorant post regarding me. So i just like to put them back in their place..Other then that please "Post here if your 360 works great"

WMDfreeman99

This thread seems pointless to me. Your upset about the negativity about a poorly designed product. The games yes are great but without a system to play them on its not. I am in the process of waiting to get my system back from just frequent random lockups. Yes i take care of it well to.

It is my right as a consumer that paid alot of money to have the expectation that the product has been tested and will work. In this case it was not properly tested and it does not work. So having negative posting coming up everywhere(blogs, forums, TV). Is a great thing. It insures that Microsoft has to fix the problem so the issues do not continue or face finacial repercussions. But more importantly it will be remembered by consumers how Microsoft handles this situation when the next xbox comes out. They know there will be a lot of people who will gladly get a ps4 instead of the next xbox cause they will lose trust in the company.

If all these negative reviews didnt pop up everywhere it most likely would never have been recognized by Microsoft as a problem. This post all though has good intentions is rather meaningless. Its basically saying hey my xbox hasnt broke yet even though the odds are good it will.