After 4 Years, Has MS Finally Solved the Xbox RRoD Problem?
FairTrade, the company that’s making this claim, bases their little theory on failure rates correlated with purchase date. Before the Jasper chipset, they were atrocious. But after? Not too bad!
“In Q4 2008, Jasper units started arriving, although we believe units purchased during this period continued to be a mix of Falcon and Jasper models. Even with this mix, we projected the 1-year failure rate to drop below 4%. Furthermore, when looking at over 500 units purchased in 2009, fewer than 1% of customers have reported a RROD error as of Aug 2009. It is still too early to definitively assert that Jasper has given RROD a knockout punch, but such an argument may be pronounceable in the coming months.”
That’s down from an (admittedly) conservative RRoD rate of about 12%, which accounted for more than half of the console’s overall failures, which stood at 23.7%. They explicitly say it’s too early to call this one, but early signs–even if all the numbers are skewed a little low–are definitely promising.
Tags: Failure Rate, Failure Rates, Falcon, Jasper, Knockout Punch, Models, Q4, Signs, xbox, Xbox 360
September 24th, 2009 at 14:38
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