This story falls firmly in the realm of if it is on the interwebs, it isn’t necessarily true. The article is a blog post written by supposedly a non-professional for newspaper readers. The source is un-named which isn’t necessarily bad, just riskier to trust.
That being said, the guy makes some very good points that all make sense and seem to mirror reality.
This past week I met and interviewed an individual who has worked on the Xbox 360 project for many years and they had some things that they wanted to get out into the public.
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It’s around 30%, and all will probably fail early. This quarter they are expecting 1 M 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. That means it’s not a fault tolerant design. So a good unit may last a couple of years, while a bad unit can fail in hours.
Warning, this is a highly technical story. Anway, it may be one of the two leaders in the game console market, and it certainly has the games to back it, but Microsoft was dangerously close to messing it all up because they wanted to beat Sony. /rant
The device, touting fitness potential abounds, yoga introducing potential and many many people in white leotards is tentatively scheduled to be released in Q2 of 2008 (April-June sometime).
I used to pride myself on my ability to draw, I still do. But after I found myself standing, in-game, on a rather anonymous hill in The Barrens on the continent of Kalimdor; stareing at this rather unusual erection dedicated to a fallen avatar. It was the Spirit Healer (with wings of course) that attracted my attention at first, but after spending time around it and reading the initials inscribed in it “MK”, and the name given to the Spirit Healer “Koiter”, I became quite curious.
I began to look into information involving this word Koiter and World of Warcraft.
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