Wii U release = Start of new Gen? Agree or Disagree.

[bouzane]

zero129 said:

bouzane said:
@zero129

I've got friends that either refused to rely on the refurbished garbage that Microsoft sends back in order to cover failed 360's or were ignorant of the extent of the 360's warranty. They instead opted to replace their 360's with new units, I don't know what percentage of total sales that this would account for but from my personal experience it appears to be a significant factor.

It could be high, but out of 40% failure rate of the 360 id say about 5-10% was past the warranty, Now that still is a big number if you take into account how many 360's where sold (Again it could be higher then that its just a guess as we have no stats to base it on), but that would bring it in line with the PS3 failure rate of 10%. Anyway i still don't think the RLOD is why the 360 sold so much.

The RRoD is clearly not the reason why the 360 sold as many units as it did, but it was a contributing factor (as minor as it may be). It is worth noting that the PS3 does not have a 10% failure rate, it is closer to 5-6%.