2.5 Million Xbox 360s Reported Defective
By Jonathan on Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 1:31 PM PST In Games Industry, Microsoft, Microsoft
It’s been a bad week for Microsoft. After various reports of “red rings of death” that prompted a move to extend their system’s warranty to three years, the total number of defective Xboxes are starting to come to light. According to Fox News, the latest numbers show an estimated 2.5 million Xbox 360s have been reported as defective. Yeah…that’s a lot. This would definitely explain why the company intends to put about $1.1 billion towards solving the issue.
Somebody on another forum raised an interesting point they other day. Are the replacement consoles (there must be a lot) being included in the 11.6 million shipped total?
good point norbit, MS is known for smudging sales numbers, lets see, they say that everyone buys a 360 because of its great online, ok, so 7 million live accounts, 11 million consoles? so that means there are only 7 million actual console owners the other 4 million are refurbs and returns?