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Opinion: The Value Of Failure

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2008-06-26 16:00:26 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...failure and imagination , two things which, coincidentally, game design is all about. Granted, the imagination part is fairly self-explanatory, so Im not going to delve into it much (especially since her noble idea of imagination is more John Lennon than it is Jim Henson). Rather, I was especially interested that she learned from her failure...
 
Tags: design, design meetings, game design, failure, pseudonymous game designer, game designer, game design workshop, game, fear failure fail
 
 
 
 
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Xbox 360 failure rate at 16%, warranty provider reports

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2008-02-14 00:00:00 by James Ransom-Wiley in Joystiq
...failure rate at 16.4% -- and likely climbing. Comparatively, the company reports failure rates hovering around 3% for PlayStation 3 and Wii, based on less accurate sample sizes numbering in the hundreds. SquareTrade found that the ghoulish " Red Ring of Death " accounted for 60% of hardware failures it's documented and supposes that figure...
 
Tags: xbox, failure, warranty, microsoft xbox, company reports failure, warranty provider, original xbox, failure issues, squaretrade
 
 
 
 
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Xbox 360 Failure Rates at 16% According to SquareTrade

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2008-02-14 21:14:27 by Chris in Gaming Today
...failure rate of Xbox 360 systems have been all over the map, from Microsofts 3% to as much as 33%. Its hard to trust any of the data, as Microsoft isnt like to come out and show a large number, and the accounts of GameStop employees just dont seem like solid evidence Cue SquareTrade , a company that sells warranties for electronics. Based on...
 
Tags: xbox, failure, xbox insider talks, failure issues, wii, wii outsells ps3, sells warranties, oh-too-common red rings, warranties
 
 
 
 
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Rumor: Xbox 360 Failure Rates Still Around 10%

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2008-01-20 15:40:20 by William in Gaming Today
...failure rates for the current design is sub 10%. Much much better, but still too high imoh. And those designs havent seen much life yet, so no one knows if that failure rate will hold If the new failure rate is close to 10%, thats a victory for Microsoft in the fact that they have obviously fixed some things, but its still an extremely high...
 
Tags: xbox, failure, anonymous xbox, percent failure, recent interview, ps3, wii outsells ps3, interview, hardware issues
 
 
 
 
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Neither WAR nor WotLK are a failure

2008-11-05 06:15:18 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...failure. This inevitably comes from people who either stopped playing WAR, or haven't started in the first place. It's the personal universe again, in which WAR is a failure, because it failed to excite *you*. Well, WAR failed to excite me too, although I was maybe better prepared for the possibility of me not liking a PvP game, and thus...
 
Tags: universe, personal universe feature, personal universe view, personal, personal universe persuasion, war, real universe, failure, personal universe
 
 
 
 
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Xbox Insider Talks 360 Failure Rates and More

2008-01-23 20:02:01 by Chris in Gaming Today
 
...failure rate of the Xbox 360 is? Some have estimated it as high as 30%. I got my Xbox in early 2007 and so far so good but what do you think the chance is that its going to die on me one day Its 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....
 
Tags: xbox, failure, launch unit, unit, units, original units, design, fault tolerant design, launch units
 
 
 
 
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360s Failure Rate At 16%, Report Claims

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2008-02-14 21:05:31 by Se Ajala in That VideoGame Blog
...failure rate Estimates for the now infamous red ring of death or RRoD if youre hip to forum lingo (if not you just learned something!), had placed the failure rate at 30%, with retailers claiming that about one out of every three systems sold would eventually fail. But SquareTrade, a company known for handling deals in warranties for...
 
Tags: failure, sad news, similar research, research, news, forum lingo, systems, outsold worldwide, ps3
 
 
 
 
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360's failure rate now pegged at 16 percent

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2008-02-14 14:00:00 by Dustin Burg in Xbox 360 Fanboy
...failure estimates hitting the news-wire, we learn how bad it (potentially) was A recent report coming from electronics warranty analyst SquareTrade has estimated that 16.4% of all Xbox 360 consoles has a hardware defect. A huge number when compared to the estimated 3% failure rate of both the PS3 and Wii. The estimate was calculated from a...
 
Tags: failure, news spin, news, consoles, hardware breaks, breaks, squaretrade reports, xbox, recent report
 
 
 
 
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Xbox 360 16% Failure Rate

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2008-02-14 21:54:27 by Will Prusik in DigitalBattle
...failure at the launch of the console, Microsoft still has a sadly high number of breakdowns for their console thats been on the market for over two years now. A heartening fact is that although this is four times as high a failure rate of what Microsoft predicted last year, its far less than the alarming failure rates some retailers were...
 
Tags: failure, xbox, microsoft, expect microsoft apparently, 40gb ps3 failures, disk tray issues, disk, failures, ps3
 
 
 
 
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The Man Responsible For The Xbox 360 Failure Rates

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2008-02-15 01:59:11 by William in Gaming Today