and i'm sure all the people who are so concerned with 360's reliability issues are either current / potential microsoft customers or pro-consumer rights people. because we all know that on the interwebs everything we hear is true, microsoft products don't get flak just because they are manufactured by "evil, monopoly, american giant corporation", fans of certain brands/corporations do not exaggerate, lie, or try to influence others purchasing decision by spreading half truths and/or fud..it's all microsoft and its apologists,sureLOL at the MS apologists who think that all people concerned with these reliability issues are "Sony posters". .
ms said they have identified these high failure rate causing problems and put the necassarily fixes in places (some sites are reporting that some small scale hardware revisons to fix some of the biggest design problems such as gpu overheating/xclamp already been implemented),They need to fix their reliability issues at the source before this is truly resolved imo..:.
also it's been reported that 65nm chip production has already started and we can start seeing these new smaller heat radiating/more efficient chips in 360s as early as next year(when 360 hits mainstream price + gets all the key software)
majority of 360 work fine (contrary to the internet "fact" that all 360s will die sometime), the problem was that the failure rate is/was waaay waaaay above of the accepted industry standarts and ms chose to put a bandaid around it (with just extanding 3month warranty to one year) instead of really dealing with the issue.Great, MS has extended their warranty to cover the failures. Unfortunately, that's like putting a tiny bandaid on a huge gaping wound...:.
Now they realize there is some serious design problem with their manufacturing process (and consumers/media/agencies won't let them get away with this failure rate issue), they accepted responsibility for the mess they caused, they said they are currently fixing the problems with minor revisons and constantly impoving their engineering(which they have to do not bleed more money), they gave 3 year retroactive warranty for all (thus covering all of current 360 owners and giving their potential customers a mind of ease), their major 65nm revison is just around the corner (reports say chips already started being fabbed atm)....i mean if these are all "putting a bandaid around on a huge gaping wound" as you say, i want to know what is actively trying everything they can to fix this problem?