What I cannot see from this survey is whether the failure rate for the 360 is going down or up. Obviously the 360 had a very well publicised failure rate in its early machines which will always skew figures when being asked the questions as posted above.
What we can see is that the PS3 is rising which is to be expected to be honest and that the Wii has a very low failure rate again to be expected. This is entirely down to what these machines do and primarily heat. I suspect the PS3 is exhibiting heat fatigue whereas obviously the Wii does not suffer this to any serious degree.
What would be really nice is know what the failure rate is off the console once the RROD was deemed mostly fixed. I say mostly as only a complete redesign is likely to fully resolve the problem. I think it is probably true to say that the PS3 redesign has probably removed a lot of the problems the fat model had with heat but only time will tell.
At least is it a sizeable poll.
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