Microsoft Insider: Xbox 360 Team Knowingly Launched Faulty Hardware

[quote]Xbox 360 team skipped quality testing of console to beat Sony to market

Last summer, amidst a flurry of reports from Xbox 360 gamers, DailyTech exposed retailers

Still let's face it though, if they hadn't released it so fast then they would have "lost" much more money, because it was released so fast it had a serious headstart on the PS3, if it had released around the same time then they would have falled behind the PS3 from the start and would have just "failed" again.

For them this was a calculated risk, and from the looks of it it was a good one at that, for them anyway.

Jesus 1.89 billon @.@ and just because they were so scared of sony, how can a multi billion company have flaws like this, if they ignored this safety procedures i can't see why they haven't donne anything like this to other products.

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Originally Posted by GohanSSJ

Still let's face it though, if they hadn't released it so fast then they would have "lost" much more money, because it was released so fast it had a serious headstart on the PS3, if it had released around the same time then they would have falled behind the PS3 from the start and would have just "failed" again.

For them this was a calculated risk, and from the looks of it it was a good one at that, for them anyway.

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Yeah. They had to take the risk and they knew it would bite them in the ass. Any company in their position would have to have done it.

Though the only shame about it is that it doesn't hurt them much but it hurts the consumers with the high fault rate.

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Jesus 1.89 billon @.@ and just because they were so scared of sony, how can a multi billion company have flaws like this, if they ignored this safety procedures i can't see why they haven't donne anything like this to other products.

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What is 1.9b to a company worth much more then that?

And it wasn't really a flaw. They just couldn't waist the needed time on QA to get the job done. Hopefully next time around they wont have to be in such a rush and get it right.

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LOL!!! Woooww its funny because my xbox 360 just crashed 1 week ago... Has anyone heard about how 3 kids in texas are sueing MS for not being able to connect too Live on the holidays.. Ms has too start fixing problems sooner because I know alot of people who are buying Wii's and PS3's but not the 360 because how many failed already.

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LOL!!! Woooww its funny because my xbox 360 just crashed 1 week ago... Has anyone heard about how 3 kids in texas are sueing MS for not being able to connect too Live on the holidays.. Ms has too start fixing problems sooner because I know alot of people who are buying Wii's and PS3's but not the 360 because how many failed already.

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People don't move to the Wii from the x360 because of it's fail rate. They move to the PS3 because of it. The Wii isn't even the same category as the x360 and PS3.

And about the holiday connection issues. They were not expecting that many new users so they didn't have servers good enough to handle it. As a result they are giving away a free game. Which you can download now.

NoPeace - out

Ha, what do you expect? Its Microsoft.

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Jesus 1.89 billon @.@ and just because they were so scared of sony

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Scared? Either you don't understand this world or you're a Sony fanboy who wants to make like Microsoft look really stupid.
This is business, they made a calculated risk for the best chance to make this console a succes, and they have done that. Scared is definetly not the word to use, it's not like their future depends on the succes of their consoles.

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Scared? Either you don't understand this world or you're a Sony fanboy who wants to make like Microsoft look really stupid.
This is business, they made a calculated risk for the best chance to make this console a succes, and they have done that. Scared is definetly not the word to use, it's not like their future depends on the succes of their consoles.

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Let me make it in a more simple way.

A cooperation that is worth more then half the world will never have to be scared. If they were scared of Sony all they would have to do is buy them.

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Well i'm not gonna lie i'm a playstation fan alright, i just don't agree with this you know they have a responsability with the public.

I guess I was lucky because I got a Pro version when it first came out and it still hasn't failed on me. But, seeing as I work at GameStop, we had to actually stop selling 1 year PRP (Product Replacement Plan) because Microsoft started to do the 3 year warrenty. So, in the end, I say they handled themselves well all things considering. I mean, they are releasing games left and right now and most of them are pretty decent games. But, I wonder if that might change now that the PS3's got a shot at recovering. Probably not, because of the lack of PS3 exlusive games coming out.

The PS3 won't be a failure, that's for sure, they will probably end up close or about the same amount of units out there as the 360, but i don't see them beating the competition in such a manner as with the PS2.

It was a risk that worked though right? and xbox was released after the ps2 and xbox was new to the market aswell as playstation had a massive following from the ps