So that's what happened! *OT*

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Friday, July 05, 2013, 10:55 (4170 days ago) @ Claude Errera

[*] Xbox 360 RRODs (yeah, that went on for years, but does anyone give a damn now?)

I care about the failures with the 360, and I think a lot of people have sworn off MS consoles because of that.

Thank you for that deeply relevant assessment of the sales landscape.

(I have no idea what you mean by 'a lot of people', or where you get this information, beyond "well, I've done it, so others must have, too." Statistic Brain, who says their data came from MS, cites nearly 60 million 360s sold, as of last month. The same site lists Sony data from last July, claiming 57 million PS3s sold. I'm not sure how you figure out how many have 'sworn off' one manufacturer or the other, and what those numbers look like...)

Well I can tell you if they hadn't (seemingly completely) fixed the problem(s) in newer models, and if it wasn't for Halo, I wouldn't buy another one; I can also ask how many people here decided to not get another MS console before the dumb stuff they said the last few months, although that wouldn't be a good representative sample.