Bill Harris Smarting Over His Dead Xbox 360
The death of an Xbox 360 is nothing new, but when it happens to a high-profile blogger it’s got potential to add pressure — oh who are we kidding? Microsoft is the master of marketing and will spin its way out of anything. Witness Bill Harris over at DubiousQuality starting off his epitaph for his Xbox 360 by describing Peter Moore’s latest and greatest dodge of the question about exactly what the 360′s failure rates are. The inscription ends by noting that Bill will be paying $140 for his console to be repaired.
He very luckily managed to save out his Guitar Hero II data to a memory card mere seconds before the system finished dying. That was some quick thinking on his part!
Bill Harris is one of my favorite columnists. You wouldn’t think so with his weekly posts on how horribly Sony is doing but he keeps it fresh, not rehashing the same bad sales figures for the sake of bad sales figures, but for the sake of discussing what it means down the road for all three machines. He’s quite good with this kind of material, using numbers for all three machines and their software to talk about trends and link in his own real-world observations. Plus I enjoy his conversations he has with his son Eli.
Do you think Bill might get a phone call from Microsoft offering to fix his 360 for free? And I can’t wait to read his post about how you still can’t transfer content from his old machine to his new one, requiring you to be online to play your content.
Via DubiousQuality: It Burrrns
See also:
Your 360 Half-Owns Your Downloads.
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