Peter Dille, Sony's senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation,

sorry about the "sole" wasnt thinking, typing in a fit of rage.

these things actually happen on the earlier models of the 360 so it depends on when you got it.
the later model system is quite good, with the ocational freeze, which can simply be fixed with a
simple restate. The only weird thing is when you play someof the original gamesfor xboxon the 360
like forza or fable, where your car's paint goes criptic, or various things like that. Over all the system
is doing a lot better than the 1st one on the release errors. have fun its a great system with lots of features
but make sure you get on live to take full advantage of all of them

Direct quote from Dille,

"I don't want to be argumentative, but I take issue with Microsoft either having a long tail, or being profitable, because they've never done either. They've never made a dime in this business, number one, and number two, they've never had a tail. They've never been successful enough to have a tail! So the notion of a back half of the curve doesn't exist for them. They stopped the Xbox and I kind of feel for the guy that bought an Xbox the month before they said 'we're out of business, we're moving on.' With the Xbox 360 you've got an inconsistent design, some have a hard drive, some don't, and none of them have Blu-Ray, and the HD-DVD will be out of business in a matter of months. Is this a 10 year product? And by the way, it doesn't even work. Do they want to be selling it for 10 years and refurbishing them all for 10 more years? I don't think that's a 10 year product. You could disagree with me, or they could disagree with me, but I'd put that up against the PS3 any day."

This can be viewed at http://kotaku.com/gaming/when-executives-attack/peter-dille-goes-beserk-bites-microsoft-in-face-278129.php

please o please lord have mercy on his sole.