Archive for the tag "failure rate"

360 failure rate is probably higher than 16%, says warrantee firm

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Retail, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »

According to this, SquareTrade, the company that made headlines earlier this month for claiming that Xbox 360 has a hardware failure rate of around 16 percent, has now made a ... Read more..

Xbox 360 warranty costs “tripled” in first nine months of 2007

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Microsoft, Trade, Xbox 360 | No Comments »

According to this, Microsoft's warranty costs for Xbox 360 tripled in the first nine months of last year, hitting $291 million, or 4.5 percent of the company's overall product revenue. Microsoft ... Read more..