http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/21/truth-xbox-360-rrods-outed
Real story of Xbox 360 RRODs outed

當消息來源是INQ的時候，要說Real本身就很欠缺說服力….不過或許還有一聽的價值。XD

發言：
“It’s around 30p er cent, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are expecting a million failures, most of those Xenons. Some of those are repeat failures. Life expectancy is all over the map because the design has very little margin for most of the important parameters.”

“MS has under resourced that product unit in all engineering areas since the very beginning. Especially in engineering support functions like test, quality, manufacturing, and supplier management.”

“MS was so focused on beating Sony this cycle that the 360 was rushed to market when all indications were that it had serious flaws. The design qual testing was insufficient and incomplete when the product was released to production.”

“I’ve heard that the failure rates for the current design is sub 10 per cent. Much much better, but still too high.”

“The 360 roadmap always called for SI die shrink and integration, since that’s where most of the cost is. Right now they are working to get the GPU and CPU on the same BGA package for the next mobo.”

所以360現在銷售上能把PS3修理，應該沒有人反對是靠提前上市得來的….
問題是提前上市如何做到呢？犧牲了什麼？

其實或許不會讓人很意外也說不定。