In what will surely go down as one of the best examples of what not to do when finalizing contracts and performing background research on new business partners, it has been revealed that the primary cause of the Xbox 360's fatal "Red Ring of Death" error came down to clerical errors and poor research on the part of Microsoft. *Being a multinational mega-corporation itself, Sony has literally hundreds subsidiary companies, not all of which are openly known to be owned by and take direction from Sony Corporate. *It seems Microsoft contracted one of these Sony-owned subsidiary companies (TeikaData Inc.) for a few key components in their flagship Xbox 360. *That lapse of judgement combined with a contractual obligation for the parts to have a MTBF (mean time before failure) of at least 8,750 hours which is around 12 months (instead of the expected 87,500 hours or 10 years) has led to massive system failures at or around the 12-months of use mark. *The beauty of this foul-up is the way the contract was written; Microsoft is forced to use these parts and cannot substitute replacements for these particular parts until the contract expires, which is either at 50 million units or 5 years, whichever takes longer. *Surely budding lawyers and engineers will be covering this case at length in future lectures as prime examples of how two seemingly small and fixable problems can compound into a massive brand-killing disaster. *

When contacted for comment, Ken Kutaragi (now on assignment setting up another "stealth" Sony subsidiary) simply looked at his calendar, smiled, and said "And now you know the real reason the PS3 was delayed, to coincide with the public fumblings and downfall of the ex-box." after which he lit a cigar with a burning hundred dollar bill and went back to work designing flawed parts to sell to competitors.

Good! This means 360 sales should go down and... and I still can't afford a PS3. Looks like Sony failed once again. :(

So your saying that in like 8k hours my 360 is gonna take a piss and die? Mk sony that is MAJOR BS. They cheat and still can't win...

Good! This means 360 sales should go down and... and I still can't afford a PS3. Looks like Sony failed once again. :(

Wait for the death-swoop price drop announcement. And I heard they're lining up a "Trade in your broken 360 for credit towards a PS3" program as we speak! That should bring the price down to $597 or so.

dude, if that is true...sony should be sued for everything they are worth.......all $2,000,000,000 of debt because of the ps3

it's not true. Everything today is made up. Its Fiction Friday. See left column on the home page

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I'll admit it, you got me with this one :-)

*giggle*

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/rothbart_photos/interweb_memes/Walken20Pranked.gif

You suckered me in for the first few paragraphs.
Good job, good "article."

I dub thee, "Doc Swift!"



Kalroy

I belived it untill i sw teh pic on the side great article

Yea unfortunately most of these had me believing.
I now give myself the "Most Gullible" achievement. -10 Gamerpoints :'(

You suckered me in for the first few paragraphs.
Good job, good "article."

I dub thee, "Doc Swift!"


Psst! *Doc didn't write that... *;)

People tend to give Doc credit for everything...

People tend to give Doc credit for everything...

It was so good... I wish I wrote it.


Maybe we should color code the articles.

Doc, undubbed (which is exactly like unplugged only totally different), and Sean dubbed "Swift!"


Kalroy now dubbed, Kalroy "Captain" Oblivious.
Sorry about missing that. Lovin' the blog.


Kalroy

Roth,
You are a talented man. You deserve some sort of award for satire! That story gets me every time I've read it.

Roth,
You are a talented man. *You deserve some sort of award for satire! *That story gets me every time I've read it.

Why thank you Altered Weapon... So weird to see folks I know in different surroundings! Writing satire is pretty fun, I enjoyed writing this one (and the PM's asking if it was "really real?"

Roth,
You are a talented man. You deserve some sort of award for satire! That story gets me every time I've read it.

Why thank you Altered Weapon... So weird to see folks I know in different surroundings! Writing satire is pretty fun, I enjoyed writing this one (and the PM's asking if it was "really real?"

I love Fridays.