Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said:
I know but people dont really have numbers for it do they? Which makes it more of a myth than a fact... |
I've seen it written that the PS3's installed base has passed that of the 360. If that's true, then the 360's high failure rate would have to be the cause. There is no other reason why it would have sold more units yet have less active consoles. Still, the installed base was virtually tied, so the difference in dead/unreplaced 360s compared to dead/unreplaced PS3s would seem to be between 1 and 2m. That means a higher number of 360s are replacements purchased at the owner's expense, but you also have to assume that some of those dead 360s were replaced with a PS3 and/or a Wii, instead. The RRoD fiasco didn't just cost Microsoft upwards of a billion dollars, it also cost them market-share. Fanboys might care about total units sold, without context, but I have no doubt Microsoft would rather have finished in "3rd place" rather than have had the RRoD event take place.
