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Thats a pretty skewed way of looking at the market (or is it that we don't want to look at the market? :) )

A crumbling tower: Sony lays siege to the 360's weak spots

arstechnica.com/.../20080817-microsoft.html

>>Whatever your preferred answer, these problems are real, getting worse, and starting to show up in the sales numbers. Microsoft doesn't have the wiggle-room it did in the market even a year ago, and it's past time to step up to the competition.

Does the company have a viable plan to do that? We'll see as we move into the holiday season. <<

I know there's not too much positive news about the XBox 360 these days (of course, that depends on your perspective), but it's funny to see the Ocean, lindy, et al searching the web for any negative articles/blogs/comments about any Microsoft product and posting it here. I am pretty sure Ocean is the same old preseton/vandil/bonch.

No search; I read Ars daily.

"I read Ars daily."

I wipe my Ars daily.

I am on xbox #9, it its makes it to 10.  Hello PS3.

@meason - "I am on xbox #9, it its makes it to 10.  Hello PS3. "

I have never had a problem...and my X-Box is into year number 2. It gets played a lot for gaming and for the kid's DVD playback and Media Center streaming. Do all of you who are having problems keep your 360s inside of closed entertainment center or with the brick of a power supply right on top of it? Or, have we just been lucky? I am guessing that it is the second choice, since it seems the problem is obviously widespread. I'll take lucky, in this case though...

--tayme

@Tayme

No, No, I keep mine in an easy bake oven.....

It sits in the perfect open air in a 74-78 degree room.  The vast majority of the 9 came as bad replacments from the refurb center, either RROD, bad DVD drives, or wrong DVD Region.  

@meason - I guess that I have been lucky then...I will probably get home from work tonight and the daughter will tell me that it took a crap today, now that I said that!!!

--tayme

Bad news is all over the place for MS these days. news.yahoo.com/.../109364

@drylight - Nice trolling...but that's old news and has been rehashed dozens of times all over the place. You must have forgotten to read this part:

"The idea of a downgrade option is nothing new for enterprise licenses, since it can take several years for large organizations to plan out and deploy significant new software, under schedules that bear no resemblance to a vendor's product schedules."

And according to most of you anti-MS troll types, the vast majority of Windows PCs exist in the business setting, right...so if you remove that number, what happens to that 1 in 3 ratio?

--tayme

Microsoft clearly has its work cut out with the 360. As an owner, I'm disappointed so far this year. Not enough to consider a Wii, but definitely enough to consider a PS3.

On a side note, my 360 is still holding up 14 months after puchase with no RROD's.

Peace.