I find 11 dead 360s such a hard surprise. Here's why
I can believe that the 360s crashed because the initial launch consoles had issues. lets say they had problems a full year into the making of hte system. Those who bought the console even 6months after that may have issues. Thus, people who bought the console a year and a half into the launch of the 360 may have issues at some point during their use.
That doesnt mean that faulty consoles are no longer made...I'm saying that statistically it should not be as significant as pervious iterations of the 360 console. All products, from medical devices, to aeronautical instruments have standards of errors or margins for product failure. No set or line of products can be guaranteed to work at all times 100% of the time, only that there will be a low chance of error. The higher the stakes such as medical equipment the lower the chance of failure.
The 360s in the market for about a year were faced with product difficulties. However each successive line of products was improved over hte last one. I say a year because the heating issues and chipsets were changed and addressed to a certain extent. I added an additonal 6 months because that seems like a fair amount of time for consoles on the shelves to be completely sold off.
That would mean that even in 2007 people still bought potentially faulty consoles and are having problems even now from these purchases.
To have 11 faulty 360s implies that the console crashed during the year and a half when faulty consoles were sold at a realtively high rate(compared to now)
This is hard to believe...11 faulty consoles being replaced during the course of a year anda half for one person implies a far too high standard of 360 failures. In fact, if, statistically speaking, this were the case then a lot more 360s should have issues.
Yet this was not the case.
However, 11 consoles replaced over the course of the entire time the 360 was on the marketearly 2006/late2005 to present day) would make more sense just because the time is spread out more. With this in mind the 11 failures would have occured over 2 and a half years-2006-mid 2008.
This is HARD TO BELIEVE as well because, as I said, faulty console manufacturing should have ended about a year and a half ago. Thus it makes little sense that this individual is sitll getting bad quality products.
Based on this logical reasoning it makes less sense that the individual had 11 bad consoles.
I am of course picking a lot of these numbers with no real statistical evidence. However, the numbers themselves make a lot of sense in general terms. I'm sure I'm off by several months plus or minus. however, the reasoning stil stands that 1, 11 broken consoles taken over the course of the faulty years(2006-mid 2007) is too many in too little time and saying 11 broken consoles over the entirity of the 360 existence makes little sense as well since the time of 2007 and onwards saw better manufactured consoles. In effect, it would seem statistically too high to have so many faulty consoles if you look at it in any way.
I for one have never had a problem but I bought mine sometime in october of 2007.
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