Microsoft on Xbox 360 Zombification: Nuh Uh
We've been getting reports of Dead Rising sucking the brains out of 360's since the demo went live, but it's only gotten worse since the actual game release.
Recently, a person claiming to work at a major publisher that oversees a large number of 360s (presumably units used for testing and development) stated that failure rates in his studio were as high as 30-50%. That's insane.
GameDaily.biz reports today that Microsoft has gotten wind of this and is vigorously shaking their heads.
Yesterday we were tipped off by an employee of a major publisher who claimed that the Xbox 360 failure rate--at least within his studio--has been much higher than Microsoft has stated failure rates to be (around 3-5%). The employee suggested that the failure rates were actually as high as 30-50% among the 300 or so consoles they received. He also noted that Capcom's Dead Rising seemed to be making the problem worse, with many of the consoles getting much hotter than usual.Although our source wished to keep his company name out of it, the bigwigs at Microsoft apparently sniffed it out as an Electronic Arts employee. Responding to this employee's letter, a Microsoft representative told GameDaily BIZ, "We can confirm that the letter was neither endorsed nor approved by Electronic Arts. At this point we have no reason to believe that the claims made in the letter are based on factual data as opposed to being just an individual opinion."
Capcom disagrees that the game is stressing the 360's unduly, and the old adage goes that the plural of anecdote is not data, but with the volume of noise on the subject, you do have to wonder. I'll ask for an informal followup to our previous poll: have you, Kotaku readership, had problems with the Dead Rising/360 combo? Do tell.
MS Denies High Failure Rates [GameDaily.BIZ]
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