Are the sales figures for the Xbox 360 Accurate?

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Onyxmeth said:

exit52000 said:

Like so many of you out there, I have experienced the RROD.  This hasnt happen once or twice but five times.  I have sent the faulty ones back twice and exchanged two faulty ones for a lower priced new one.  This means I am now on my 6th Xbox.

I have an Xbox upstairs and one down.  Which with such a high failure rate is a nightmare.

So taking this into account and knowing that many of you will be like me and cant wait for the repair procedure, how many Xboxs are actually out there.

It would be interesting to know.

This only holds weight if you can explain where the old 360's go. Do they go in the garbage? Unlikely. Do they get sold in as-is condition? Much more likely. Do these as-is consoles get fixed and restocked as refurbished consoles, or some other method of getting them to work again and re-sold? Now we're getting somewhere.

Your 4 other RROD consoles are probably currently sitting in someone else's living room getting used, becomming part of the install base.

This.

The ones you returned for a new 360 were sent in and refurbished and then resold.  The only way the install base would be off is if someone seriously let a broken 360 sit there and rot, which really never happens as any 360 owner knows you can get it repaired for free, or sell it to people who will fix it themselves (via Ebay, craigslist, etc).