@ mrpapaye
The failure rate of 360s according to a recent article is still well above industry standards. I assume build quality is an excellent reason to base educated consumer purchases on, actually one of the best.
Educated consumers know the 360 is noisy, includes a power brick which isn't easy to hide and the DVD player rotates discs at high speeds which will cause many issues over time including disc scratching and drive wearing (on PCs drives don't need to constantly spin as most games are (near) fully installed on a harddrive).
Life expectance is of relevance to any consumer device, be it a dish washer or television set. Why would it be any different with regard to console? I think a console should be expected to last at least 5 years for the majority of people, more is of course better. Launch units assuming a constant 30% RRoD failure rate (usually it goes up over time), a majority of users would have had to deal with a system failure within 2 years time.
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