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The Xbox 360 has no doubt earned the reputation of a very unreliable console. Microsoft has acknowledged these issues by extending warranties and such, but Bill Gates has recently said warranty support isn’t enough, and Microsoft is aiming to make the 360 more reliable than the competitors’.

We’ve got incredible reliability on the new work we’ve done…Our commitment is that it will be the most reliable video game box out there. People really love the Xbox because of the content, but we’ve got to make sure that the hardware never stands in the way of that.

Gates is most likely refering to the new Falcon chipsets placed into the second edition of 360s, which have been better about RRoDs, but can the 360 be more reliable than the 360?, which Sony stated only has a .02% failure rating. Probably not since Microsoft contracts 360 production to various low-bidding third parties.

[Kotaku]