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EDIT: Thanks to Digiwalsh I had to edit this post. It's obvious I can't read. Give me a break man I've been on medicine for two weeks.
Jeez I'm back from the dead/death. Been ill since New Years day. Missed me, no? Of course not you sick man! But now this message just made me get all better. Seeing my name on Bahamutzero's friendlist gave me an extra kick in the but. And what about this little fucker ->  Excellent!
Now for the story: From BBC.co.uk and Gamekings "Soon to be sort of retired Microsoft chief Bill Gates has called Xbox 360 the most reliable console on the market. His comments were made at CES to the BBC, which fired reader concerns at him - a remarkable amount apparently concerning Xbox failure rate. “Well we certainly had to apologise to our users about the number of boxes that had to be replaced. We did that for free, for all those people, and we got a lot of positive feedback about the way we handled it,” said Gates. “We’ve got incredible reliability on the new work that we’ve done. Our commitment is that it will be the most reliable videogame box out there. People love the Xbox because of the content, but we’ve got to make sure the hardware never stands in the way of that." Damn that's funny. I don't want to start ye flamewars, Bill did. No Bill, 360 is not reliable, your service might be ok but you shouldn't need to replace the boxes if you just made them good. It is the same with windows, it's not reliable but everyone owns it. Post unrelated Video's Just because this rocks so much And finally because I had such a good time back when I was ten PEW! Glad to be back And because I'm all better I'm going to play Team Fortress 2 all day long: PSN: Johanhin
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Yeah, Gates can pretty much say anything now that he's going! I'm not surprised by his comments any more. He's one of these people who thinks if he says something enough, people will believe it!
On the other hand, he's right about the way they handled it. MS customer services have been top notch. It just doesn't excuse the fault in the first place!
Bill Gates = Ken Kutaragi
He's using future tense the whole time. He says "Our Commitment is that it WILL" he's stating an aim, a desire for the console to have better stability, He cites "new work" which no doubt corresponds to the new 65nm chipsets which, yes, are more reliable.
Saying we "have to make sure" is also a future tense intent.
At no point in the interview does Bill say "Oh yeah, all the xboxes work fine, Nothings wrong with any of them, we don't have to do anything"
In laymens terms what he's saying is, "A lot of our hardware wasn't up to scratch, we've had to apologise for that, and with a bit of work , hopefully we can make the 360 the most reliable rig out there"
I've no problems with bashing on MS for a laugh, but at least wait til lthey actually drop the ball rather than twisting an article's tone and words to mean something they blatantly don't.
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I read it on READY TO FRIDAY. That pure crap man. 3 times, jeez. But remember Bill says: WILL BE. Now it's just a box of shite.