1UP reports: "There's been a lot of press about Microsoft's red ring problem. Estimates of the problem have been all over the map, and when he was working for Microsoft, Peter Moore referred to them as a moving target. Company estimates pinned it at a fairly normal 3%, while some retailers have put the percentage as high as 1/3 of all systems.
A new report claims the truth is somewhere in the middle. SquareTrade deals in selling warranties for electronics, and has amassed their over 1000 warranty claims to come up with some interesting data. The findings were a 16.4% failure rate of Xbox 360 systems, versus a roughly 3% rate for the Sony PlayStation 3 or the Nintendo Wii with sample sizes in the high hundreds. The well-known "Red Ring of Death" error accounted for about 60% of those hardware failures, and thus most system-breaking problems are covered by Microsoft's extended warranty plan".
With the end of the Big Spring Sale and the lead-up to Easter, Amazon has axed the price of this stunning, high-performance Alienware display.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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This should bypass pay wall
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
but until Sony and Nintendo step it up...it seems the 360 is still the best console out there
I have no doubt the PS3 will outsell its competitors in hardware and software sales in 2008, and as soon as some quality is added in multiple areas I'll throw Sony my $600
Once they get rid of this problem, I wonder what will be complaning about next. This is the only really bad thing about Xbox 360.
until xbox360 failure rate goes down to 2% i wont buy another system
already went thought 4 systems
and ps3 is not $600 its $400
also ps3 has outsold the 360 in every country except for north americ
and north america is were it really counts to sell your system
and wii continues to be #1 system
but for how long till people figure out wii has no good titles out there
i have a wii and only bought it for brawl but its been collecting dust for the past 5 months
they say the ps3 has %3 failure rate right now
i wonder how its gonna change when the new chip ibm made will be put in the systems
Hey at least it went down by half.