Yeah, it is a Big Problem like Russian occupation of Georgia.

Yeah, yeah, yeah 360 rrod, blah blah blah. This Thread is pointless, We all know the problems of 360 so what?

yeah i have gone thru two

one was stolen and then a few months back got a replacement--i have yet to have one

my friend has had his for over a year now

so out of my sample of 2 we are both at a perfect rate so i say the fail rate is 0

oh wow. thats is bad man, makes me feel glad that the one in my room is payed for on the real real cheap

And how many of your anecdotal Xbox 360's are Falcon units?

I posted the NeoGAF aggregator on Xbox 360 failures. Of the 1,300 broken Xbox 360's that they've had on their website by owners, only 4 of them are Falcons that have been made since August 2007.

Maybe it's just me, but that's quite an improvement, no?

Old Xbox 360s still RROD. That is agreeable. Falcons and newer do not. Get your facts straight: A newly purchased Xbox 360 will not break on you. An older one will.

 How is this 8.2%?  Your logic makes no sense whatsoever.  That's 7 + 3 + 3 (at least, since you didn't signify how many friends, you simply left it plural), which means that 10 out of at least 13 have broken, going on the assumption that the most recent you've gotten hasn't broken yet.  That's well above 8.2%.

For instance, I have 4 friends who also have an XBOX 360, like I do.  One friend has sent his back 7 times, and is on his 8th 360.  One has sent it back 5 times, and is on his 6th 360.  The other two have each sent theirs back 3 times, and are on their 4th 360.  While I have gotten RROD once, upon turning my 360 off for a few minutes then back on, I haven't had the problem since.  I also have the newest 360, having bought an Elite last year.

That equals up to 8 + 6 + 4 + 4 + 1 = 23 XBOX 360's.  Out of those 23, the most recent that all of us currently have are working, so 18 of 23 have had to be replaced.  Of my friends and myself, theres a roughly 78% failure rate on the XBOX 360.

Then again, I've heard of a few people who have never had a problem, similar to myself.  And theres a word that I've seen used here that is used for a study that isn't meant to represent a product as a whole, just a personal experience, but I can't remember the word.  But you could consider this a study of that type.

End Note:  Of my friends, the one who is on his 8th 360 and the one who is on his 6th - both lobbied hard enough to receive brand new 360's the past 2 times, within the past year.  That means that 2 somewhat new 360's have failed due to RROD in the past year, which isn't good, but is much better than the 16 in the years prior to it.