Well, that's not the 'validity' I was talking about. Anyway I'm not trying to hound you on the issue - I just sort of see your defense efforts as perhaps a bit too accusatory in their calls for evidence. IMO with everything on the table thus far, there is no reason *not* to believe 20%+ failure rates on gen-1 hardware.
I understand your frustration at perhaps thinking this issue is being over-covered, but you must recognize that in the context of what gets covered n this industry, this is about as news-worthy as they get.
After today's announcement, I have a feeling the dark cloud surrounding the issue is going to lift though.
I dont have a view on comparing fanboys, Todd brought it up. My point is that bias and fanboys can heavily damage much of the "scientific data" that many places are collecting, and certainly play a part in the "Xbox 360 is a peice of garbage" posts which only further warps the view people have on the console far more then it realistically may be. Nobody is saying the PS3 is junk with some ghost figure so i fail to see how its comparable.
I still think you are downplaying the situation a little too much here, given the threefold increase in warranty that Microsoft is coming out with now as their solution. Honestly, all human related statistics are flawed... I don't think you need to convince anybody with half a brain that reality. I mean people lie about being male or female even on surveys, but that's another story. Let's just say that the 25%-30% figure is WRONG by a margin of 50% (because people lie or what have you), that's still 12.5% to 15% of the systems failing. Meaning 12.5 to 15 systems will fail out of 100... and out of all the systems... well you can do the math.
You can't expect to have a perfectly scientific calculation with these kind of things. What we can do is get a rough estimate from the information we DO have. Honestly, it's time to come back to the real world Neo, because here no one views the real world in pure numeric form.
