Xbox One Scared of new console failure rates?

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I read an article a few days ago that I cannot find!!! It said in a round about way that when the last generation of consoles launched ie Xbox 360 and PS4 that the Xbox had a documented 33% failure rate. My question is straight forward if you read the title of this thread! Are you scared if that failure rate is replicated on the One?!?

I've never had any problems with any console so I count myself lucky, but, for those that have, was it straight forward to fix? Did you get an immediate swap? Were you charged any money at all? If the numbers hold then 1 in 3 of us will have a problem!

That is all.
 
Not worried at all. The 360 did have an awful failure rate for the first year or so, but otherwise consoles are quite reliable.

MS simply screwed up with the 360 launch. Plain and simple. That mistake cost them billions of dollars and you can be sure that no company is ever going to repeat the same mistake.

The 360 launch problems were pretty simple. The launch consoles got way, way too hot. Heat + electronics = bad. I remember my first 360 would get so hot that I would let the disks cool for a minute before pulling them out of the tray.

I live in an area with cold weather. My 360 is in the basement with plenty of airflow around it. I even had a full size fan blowing on my early 360 and it still overheated.

Once MS got the temperature of the 360 down to reasonable levels, the consoles stopped having massive failures.

Again, that's a mistake MS will not be repeating. If you look at pictures of the inside of the X1, almost the entire top is a fan to keep things cool.
 
Kerosene31 said:
Not worried at all. The 360 did have an awful failure rate for the first year or so, but otherwise consoles are quite reliable.

MS simply screwed up with the 360 launch. Plain and simple. That mistake cost them billions of dollars and you can be sure that no company is ever going to repeat the same mistake.

The 360 launch problems were pretty simple. The launch consoles got way, way too hot. Heat + electronics = bad. I remember my first 360 would get so hot that I would let the disks cool for a minute before pulling them out of the tray.

I live in an area with cold weather. My 360 is in the basement with plenty of airflow around it. I even had a full size fan blowing on my early 360 and it still overheated.

Once MS got the temperature of the 360 down to reasonable levels, the consoles stopped having massive failures.

Again, that's a mistake MS will not be repeating. If you look at pictures of the inside of the X1, almost the entire top is a fan to keep things cool.
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Guaranteed MS crossed their "T"s and dotted their "I"s this time around. All technology has a failure percentage rate when released, let's just hope it won't be too severe.

J
 
People tend to forget or ignore the fact that Microsoft released 5 or more Xbox 360 console versions after the original. None of them had any unusual failure rates.
 
True, it was only the original systems that had an unusual failure rate. The newer ones were fine and most of the ppl with bad systems were able to replace them. I had one replaced.

J
 
Meh. The 33% is an exaggeration. I got my 360 a while after the launch and it hasn't given me any trouble after all these years. There are bound to be a few problems around the launch time but they are almost always removed in later versions. Plus, I am pretty sure Microsoft are a lot more careful with the failure rates this time around.
 
No doubt! I'm not worried at all!

J
 
I think MS learned their lesson. With that said, there will always be failures when you have new electronics being released in such big numbers. Statistically it's just impossible to avoid. It might sound worse than it really is, because anyone who has a broken console will be vocal about it. You won't hear the hundreds of thousands of other people constantly saying how great their console is working. You'll hear far more from the vocal minority who got stuck with a dud.

With that said, I think I'll be waiting to get any console. I don't see any must have games for me just yet, so I don't mind waiting a year to see what all three consoles have to offer and for the PS4 and Xbone to get their stuff straight. Who knows, maybe next year we'll get a cheaper model or one with a bigger HDD (most likely the latter).
 
Trust me. That fiasco cost them 1 billion to fix. They are NOT gonna make that mistake again.
 
It is a legitimate concern. The only good thing is that most of these problems are likely to appear during the warranty period, so you will be able to get it repaired for free should those issues arise.
 
EMS_Johnny said:
I'm far to excited to worry, I've never purchased a console at launch.
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Trust me, it is a VERY good feeling acquiring your bounty and feeling like you are among a small minority lucky enough to score one.

J
 
No, I'm not scared; but I also am not a fool. i know there will be some failures as there are with all new Tech and I know as time goes by we will see more and more isolated incidents until MSFT can trouble shoot the issues. I do not in any way think we will have another RROD because I'm sure MSFT has taken great strides to avoid that.
 
I hear one of the "strides" they took was making the system casing larger, allowing more room around the parts for heat exhaust.

J
 
Its time like these i always get those 2 year in store exchange plans. Especially with a launch console.
 
Kerosene31 said:
Not worried at all. The 360 did have an awful failure rate for the first year or so, but otherwise consoles are quite reliable.

MS simply screwed up with the 360 launch. Plain and simple. That mistake cost them billions of dollars and you can be sure that no company is ever going to repeat the same mistake.

The 360 launch problems were pretty simple. The launch consoles got way, way too hot. Heat + electronics = bad. I remember my first 360 would get so hot that I would let the disks cool for a minute before pulling them out of the tray.

I live in an area with cold weather. My 360 is in the basement with plenty of airflow around it. I even had a full size fan blowing on my early 360 and it still overheated.

Once MS got the temperature of the 360 down to reasonable levels, the consoles stopped having massive failures.

Again, that's a mistake MS will not be repeating. If you look at pictures of the inside of the X1, almost the entire top is a fan to keep things cool.
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My guess is that they must have fired all those engineers and got a bunch of new ones for the Xbox One. I do hope nothing like that will happen with the upcoming release, cause it could be a disaster. Considering all that power and electronics, I think the engineers would have figured something innovative.
 
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