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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?
I think that's lower than some of Microsoft's other products. Redmond must be celebrating...
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.
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?
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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Except for a broken leg, a shattered skull and a gunshot to the heart, I'm completely uninjured!
In other news, a recent call-in poll on Fox News indicated that 95% of the country is Republican.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
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!
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... :)