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Xbox 360 Failure Rate Is 54.2%
Colonel Korn writes "The Seattle PI Blog is reporting that a soon to be published Game Informer survey finally shows the failure rate of XBOX 360s: 54%! The survey also shows the rates of failure for the PS3 (11%) and Wii (7%). Impressively, only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures."
Focused significantly more on quality control and then simply shipped every second 360 casing with packing peanuts and achieved the same result?
There are components that are still produced outside of China/Malaysia/Taiwan?
More Twoson than Cupertino
I think that's lower than some of Microsoft's other products. Redmond must be celebrating...
I submitted this a couple days ago but it looks like they went with someone who doesn't completely fail at basic reading comprehension.
Fixed that for you.
Note the giant typo in the slashdot summary versus eldavojohn's (emphasis added). From Slashdot:
only 4% of respondents said they wouldn't buy a new 360 because of hardware failures.
From eldavojohn
only 3.8% said they would buy another Xbox
This is a pretty significant difference, and owing to Slashdot's frequent editorial errors, I'd say trust eldavojohn.
Nix that. I didn't RTFA. The slashdot summary is correct. Who knew?
This is a pretty significant difference, and owing to Slashdot's frequent editorial errors, I'd say trust eldavojohn.
And I'm going to assume that eldavojohn is mistaken. If only there were some published reference we could consult to clear this up...
at the boardroom is the one thing on my mind.
Engineer: very few, say less than 5% of people say they will refuse to buy an XBox due to its failure rate
Ballmer: so what is the failure rate?
Engineer: uh, more than 50%...
Ballmer: So....we're boiling a frog it seems?
Engineer: we may as well be vaporizing a frog. it neither knows, nor cares.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Actually MS has released later revisions of the 360 that fix a lot of the problems with the first gen consoles. I've had a 360 for years now and other than a PSU failure and the HD-DVD drive cutting in and out, I've had no problems. And this is a first gen.
CmdrTaco, that's who!
My 5 Nintendo based systems have never failed once (Well the NES can be a bit of pain sometimes, ha ha).
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You paid 4$ for a phone call?
The slashdot summary is correct. Who knew?
You can't lose 'em all!
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Not to mention the cost of the equipment you had to replace and the clinic bills because of the Wiimote's destructive powers (impact damage to plasma TVs, black-eyes, etc.). That's easily several extra hundred dollars.
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I've heard about units that get so hot they catch fire. Dear Microsoft: if you're reading this, please send me one of those faulty units. I owe more on my house than it's worth, so you could help me solve some of my problems.
In other news, a recent call-in poll on Fox News indicated that 95% of the country is Republican.
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Not to mention the cost of the equipment you had to replace and the clinic bills because of the Wiimote's destructive powers (impact damage to plasma TVs, black-eyes, etc.). That's easily several extra hundred dollars.
Hah, that's what you get for not having socialised health care, us Brits can hit each other with our Wiimotes with callous disregard for the true cost!
You paid a large sum for the 360, voided your warranty only hoping it's going to help but being sure that if it dies, you are out on 300 bucks or more?
Can anyone tell me what exactly makes these games for the 360 so extremely appealing? Are they as addictive as it seems, on par with the most addictive MMORPGs? Is it worse than weed or what?
The only reason for buying an XBOX 360 I can think of is when they include a year's worth of crack or meth. You know that two thirds of those consoles die within a year or two. You know that after three years, the thing is out of warranty and you're out of luck. You know that it's damn loud. You know there's a few consoles out there that last much longer, make less noise, cost less money and don't require a serverfarm-sized air condition to not overheat. And you know there's a tremendous array of laptop and desktop computers that can run PC versions of most console games and much much more, including every piece of USB equipment ever made in the last decade.
Now, what's the kicker on the 360 to throw all that aside?
I dick around with software for a living - when I get home I just want to relax.
Which totally explains all the work you put into your XBox 360... :)