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Originally Posted by bigmf
I just started thinking about the amount. $1 billion is a metric crapload of money. At $400 a repair that is 2.5 million units. That would be assuming that it is a full replacement. If its $100 per repair, that is 10 million repairs or essentially all of the sold boxes internationally. You do not accrue a warranty liability for items not yet sold. So the billion is on the x-boxes that are out in the wild. To me it says that every x-box out there will soon become an ex-box.  |
har, good one
2.5M units as replacements comes in at 25% fail-rate. Less than 400 bucks for repair/console and we are talking even higher %ages.
Can open, worms everywhere...